The Plant Programme: Recipes for Fighting Breast Cancer - Healthier Non-dairy Living for Everyone

by Gillian Tidey (Author), Jane Plant CBE (Author)

• Prizes: ','1','ChildrenBookAge: ','Book Overview: ','A follow-up book to Professor Plant\'s bestseller Your Life in Your Hands in which she shows how to implement her cancer prevention plan in everyday life. Here are weekly menu plans - delicious, nutritious, easy to prepare and mostly inexpensive - along with suggestions for other lifestyle aspects such as shopping, cleaning, gardening and grooming.','Professor Jane Plant, CBE, is one of Britain\'s most distinguished female scientists and Chief Scientist of the British Geological Survey; Gill Tidey is Director of the Nottingham Energy Partnership. Both authors have worked and lived in many countries, particularly Asia, where the rates of breast and prostate cancer are exceptionally low. They both manage high-level careers, look after their families and homes, and entertain, and are therefore aware of the complexities and stresses of modern day life, but both know it is easy to create meals that minimise the risks inherent in modern dairy and convenience-food-rich diets.');">

  Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.82

  Professor Jane Plant's first book, Your Life in Your Hands , was aimed at those trying to treat or prevent breast or prostate cancer. In this title she and fellow scientist Gill Tidey show how to make the necessary changes to implement the Plant Programme in your everyday life. From essential equipment in the kitchen, to weekly menu plans - tasty, nutritious, easy to prepare and mostly inexpensive - to food for the kids. Covering dining in, dining out and lifestyle aspects such as shopping, cleaning, gardening and grooming, the authors provide everything you need should need to know in a simple and easy-to-understand formula.

• Used

  Paperback
  2005

  $3.27

  * Dietry advice for preventing and fighting some common diseases. * help with cardiovascular, digestive tract and skin diseases and many more health problems. * Packed with delicious, healthy, nutritious easy-to-make recipes. Jane Plant's breast cancer recurred five times before she learned of the relationship between diet and the disease. The lifestyle of non-dairy eating and healthy living she adopted to complement her conventional medical treatment overcame her cancer and she wrote about those food and lifestyle factors in her internationally bestselling book Your Life in Your Hands and, with follow scientist Gill Tidey, in the recipe book The Plant Programme. Now Jane Plant and Gill Tidey show that this diet can also be beneficial in the prevention and treatment of several other common diseases. The authors have expanded the information about their diet to look at a variety of illnesses - some common, some minor and some more serious. They clearly explain the principles of the diet before discussing the illnesses and aspects of the diet that will help (including what foods and products to avoid). Key sections on cardiovascular, digetstive tract and skin diseases and bone problems are followed by delicious, easy-to-make and nutricious recipes to help you follow and keep tio healthy diet. This is an essential book for better health for everyone.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2001

  $3.27

  Professor Jane Plant's bestselling first book, Your Life in Your Hands, was aimed as those trying to treat or prevent breast or prostate cancer. In this book she and tellow scientist Gill Tidey show us how to make the necessary changes to implement the Plant Programme in our everyday life. From essential equipment in the kitchen, to weekly menu plans - delicious, nutritious, easy to prepare and mostly inexpensive - to food for the kids, The Plant Programme can be beneficial to everyone. Covering dining in, dining out and lifestyle aspects such as shopping, cleaning, gardening and grooming, the authors provide everything you need to know in a simple and easy-to-understand formula.

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $16.81

  Jane Plant's breast cancer recurred five times before she learned of the relationship between diet and the disease. In her international bestselling book, Your Life in Your Hands, she describes how her training and knowledge as a natural scientist enabled her to understand and, eventually, overcome her cancer. In Prostate Cancer: Understand, Prevent and Overcome she then expanded her research into prostate cancer - the second biggest cancer killer among men. In The Plant Programme Jane and fellow scientist Gill Tidey show how adopting a lifestyle of non-dairy eating and healthy living can complement conventional medical treatment of breast or prostate cancer and help in the prevention of the diseases. With hundreds of tasty, easy-to-make and nutritious dairy-free meals for all occasions, as well as tips on how to cope with dining away from home. The Plant Programme can help save lives.