The Breast Health Cookbook: Fast and Simple Recipes to Reduce the Risk of Cancer by Robert Arnot, M.D., Barbara Sutherland, Ph.D. and Rita Mitchell, R.D.
Dr. Bob Arnot is also the author of The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet. His wife complained that the recommended foods in his breast cancer diet didn't taste good to her so he teamed up with two nutritionists to research and create flavorful menus that, not only his wife would eat, but the whole family would enjoy. This book is the product of that research.
Arnot begins by explaining how specific foods may help protect you from breast cancer. The information is not overly technical and is easy to read. He also briefly discusses planning for a change in your diet, cooking terms, and shopping for the foods needed in the recipes, which may be different from what you've cooked with previously.
Ingredients:
2 cups rolled oats
¼ cup packed soy protein powder
¼ cup nonfat dry milk powder
2 tablespoons sliced almonds
½ cup apple juice concentrate
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 teaspoon canola oil
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon chopped dried apricots
1 tablespoon raisins
1 ¼ cups nonfat soymilk
Preheat
oven to 250 degrees. In a large bowl, combine oats, soy protein
powder, milk powder, and almonds. In a small bowl, mix apple
juice concentrate, brown sugar, oil, and salt. Add juice mixture
to oat mix; stir until evenly moistened. Spread on a cookie
sheet. Bake in preheated oven for 45 minutes, stirring every
15 minutes to prevent burning. Mix in apricots and raisins.
Pour soymilk over cereal.
Estimated
nutrients per serving:
Calories:
370
Total protein (grams): 19
Soy protein (grams): 10
Total carbohydrate (grams): 62
Total fat (grams): 7
Total fiber (grams): 6
Total fruit & vegetable (servings): 1
The Breast Heath Cookbook has three different menu plans: Asian, New American and Mediterranean. Items are listed for the "well-stocked" pantry for each menu plan. Prostate protection is also discussed within the meal plans for the men in your
family.
The recipes are organized by breakfasts, soups and stews, sandwiches, main courses, main-dish salads, side dishes - grains and legumes, side dishes - vegetables, side salads, and desserts. Each recipe is laid out in an easy to read format, with simple directions and nutritional information.
Dr. Arnot writes, "Most of us have ten favorite meals. If you can learn to shop for, cook, and enjoy even ten new meals, you'll go a long way toward making yourself the healthiest you've ever been. By making these changes, you will have optimized your chances of preventing cancer and other chronic diseases and done your best." With the many meals in this book, it's easy to find 10 healthy new menus to jump-start your journey to good health.
This book allows husbands and wives to support each other in their battle to reduce the risk of breast cancer and prostate cancer!
Review by Maribeth Doerr
Congratulations to our winners of the breast cancer books contest: Linda, Valerie, Carla and Lizanne!
