Your Life in Your Hands: Understanding, Preventing, and Overcoming Breast Cancer

by Jane A. Plant

Book Overview

One out of nine women in the United States will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. In fact, it is the second leading cause of cancer death for women (after lung cancer) and the leading overall cause of death in women between the ages of forty and fifty-five. For too long women have erroneously believed that there is little or nothing they can do to prevent this dread illness. Our major medical efforts are directed toward detecting and treating,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312275617
• ISBN13: 9780312275617
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Nutrition and Cancer

This book by Jane Plant, a British geologist, deals with a very difficult and emotional subject for women, breast cancer. It also has the potential to raise the eyebrows of anyone with a scientific background. There are numerous traps that Jane Plant could have fallen into, however, she avoids all potential disasters and winds up with a very scientific treatise on the subject of nutrition and cancer (breast and prostate). The book is mostly about her fight against breast cancer and the revelation that Oriental women have a very low rate of breast cancer. From this morsel Jane deduces that there may be a significant dietary component to the cause of the disease. Working from there she goes on to discuss a number of scientific studies that involve the growth factors that are contained in dairy products. Jane uses logic and scientific fact to come to the conclusion that dairy products are the single most important factor causing breast cancer in western women. She concludes by offering an alternative diet for women who wish to lower their chances of contracting the disease. This book is a must read for any breast cancer activist and any health care professional who treats breast cancer in women. It is surprising that the book has not gotten more publicity and attention. I suspect the American dairy industry may have had something to do with that.

your life in your hands

I read Janet Plant's book with great interest. I'm a phycisian and I specialize in medical weight management.Last 10 years I came to the same conclusion about milk as Dr. Plant did, based on my own clinical experiance.The medical literature is very clear about low incidence of cancer of the breast in Japanese or Chinese women living in their respective countries.In my practice I see so many patients with acid reflux disease, asthma, frequent migrain headaches,feeling tired all the time. As soon as we stop the milk and the related products their improvment is remarkable.I think it does not make sense that millions of our citezens take medications for the above mentioned disorders and do not follow a common sense aproach by discontinuing the milk products and giving themselves a chance to feel better naturally.I switch all my patients from milk to soy on their first visit and in one week they feel the difference.And in the end if we can prevent the women from not getting breast cancer it is worth the try. The book is written in easy format for everyone to understand and I recomend it to all medical professinals.

Plain Common Sense

This is a book that really makes sense. We tackle other illnesses such as heart problems with diet and nobody seems to think it's cranky or extreme. So why does the connection between breast cancer and diet attract such scepticism?. Breast cancer is hormone related and has reached epidemic rates in many countries. It's just plain common sense to look for the causes and tackle breast cancer with diet and lifestyle. Our fish are becoming hermaphrodites - tap water often contains recycled hormone rich pee - plastic packaging leaches hormones into our food - milk contains oestrogens and growth factors. Young girls are reaching puberty earlier. Other cultures call breast cancer "rich womens disease".It all adds up. Professor Jane Plant is a respected UK scientist and her arguments are backed up with lots of research. At times the book lapses into personal history but be fair, getting breast cancer is a very personal affair. The personal touch also makes the book eminently readable to women who might not have a Phd in science. Most of the information she presents was already available but hidden in obscure studies and unrelated research, it just needed somebody to pull it all together and make sense of it. She's obviously a very intelligent woman who has thought about very deeply about breast cancer and the possible causes. No wonder the dairy industry hates this book. Others have said this book is as important as Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring". I agree. I don't accept everything she says and have lots of questions but the basic underlying truths are self evident.This book should spark debate. Read, think, and prevent yourself and your daughters from becoming another contribution to the astounding increase in breast cancer rates. If you've already got breast cancer, even it's back again, give yourself a chance of curing it. Lots of the information is relevant to prostrate cancer, another hormone cancer showing a frightening rate of increase. I have been told that all the profits from this book go to a research foundation. I wish this book had been published years ago.

Girlfriends, Think Soy!

I reduced my dairy intake and reduced my uterine fibroid in the process--thanks to Dr. Christiane Northrop's advice. Now Dr. Jane Plant confrims again the critical importance of keeping milk for the calves and moving to a more human-enhancing diet. Thank you Dr. Plant for all your research, your moving heroine's journey, and your scholarly persistence in the face of many fear-based doubters. l believe in what you say because I, too, have experienced renewed health by following your wise suggestions. I hope others will at least give your guidance a try---they will be pleasantly surprised to find that their lives are, indeed, in their own hands!

life-saving: balanced, complete, lucid, honest, practical

Jane Plant is endorsed by eminent scientists: T. Colin Campbell, David Perlmutter, John McDougall, Devra Lee Davis.Now, one in nine USA women develops breast cancer. The 1992 average of all dairy products was 1.54 pounds daily, over 40% of total calories.She recounts, 1987 to 1993, five breast cancers, a terrifying nightmare, with loss of one breast, radiation, and chemotherapy, an account given in honest detail, with mistakes confessed and many practical lessons shared.She describes simply the scientific facts about cancer, and her search for causes. In rural China only 1 in 10,000 women have breast cancer in a year, vs 9 in the USA. "The Chinese don't eat dairy products!...Then I eliminated dairy products. Within days, the lump started to shrink...six weeks...I could not find it." It never returned.Cow milk is for calves, not humans. In babies, milk problems include iron deficiency, GI bleeding, colic, allergies, and later childhood-onset diabetes. In adults, common lactose intolerance, Listeria monocytogenes, antibiotics, many added hormones, up to 2 million pus cells per teaspoon, pesticides, pollutants like PCBs, and IGF-1/rBGH growth hormone (which specifically speeds tumor growth), while also prolactin, EGF, estrogen, and casein promote tumors [80 references].She details and explains: a delicious organic menu of non-dairy foods, drinks, and desserts, using many soy products, and the best cooking with meats, vegetables, fruits, fats, grains and seasonings; many ways of handling stress; the formidable vested interests that hinder public awareness of the power of nutrition to prevent and cure cancer. She has guided 63 other women to recover from breast cancer."I was a go-getting creer woman...young children...a full-time job...I had become ill nourished because of reading food-industry (so called health) propaganda. I had survived on what was marketed and advertised as health food, albeit low fat and high fiber with large quantities of dairy food: cottage cheese and yogurt and dishes made using ground meat from slaughtered dairy cows, washed down with milky tea or commercial orange juice. I ate lots of fruits and cereals but few salads or vegetables. I simply took high-dose vitamin C pills and multivitamin, multimineral pills to cover any deficiencies. I am now kinder to myself and to other people. I ensure that however hurried I am, however simple my meals, they are based on sound nutritional values. I now make time for family and friends and-- amazingly-- I seem to be even more successful in my work and my life...no longer a "fashion victim" in my clothes, home, garden or car...as unmaterialistic as possible ...concerned with the environment...Breast cancer changed me: from being insecure and easily persuaded by authority into a stronger woman who is her own person. It made me stop. And smell the (wild) roses..." ... This also applies to prostate cancer.