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“From one of the most visible and highly respected figures in medical journalism comes a book that can literally save lives. During the past several years, doctors at leading institutions across the nation have been investigating the relationship between breast cancer and diet. The recent flood of medical studies confirm that what a woman eats can have a dramatic impact on whether or not she contracts the disease. In The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet, Dr. Bo… More >>
I too STRONGLY feel one should read the American Council on Science and Health critique of this awful, misleading book. Breast cancer hits all types of women and it a FALSE assertion to suggest food has ANY impact on breast cancer. The kind of assertions in Arnot’s trashy book can lead to a false hope about decreasing breast cancer risk which may cause women to defer or avoid established screening techniques such as breast self-examination or mammography. It is exploitive on Arnot’s behalf, and I urge women to get breast exams and, if they are over fifty, to get mammographies. Get the facts and don’t buy this book.
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this book because of Oprah’s recommendation. It was NOT easy to read. I have a college degree…so, I am NOT dumb. The recipes were NOT there…no directions on how to cook the things in the book. This book is now on my book shelf and I feel like I REALLY wasted the $25 I paid for this book. If I had a choice, I would not have given it ANY stars at all!!!!….sorry. My recommendation is, DO NOT buy this book….you will be wasting your money!! I live on a VERY limited income and I wish I had the money back that I paid for this book!!!!!!!!!!
Rating: 1 / 5
I agree with the criticism that the American Counsil on Science and Health wrote in complete dismissal of this book’s shoddy research. The book is a horror. There is no link between diet and breast cancer. See your doctor, get check ups, do self-breast exams AND STAY AWAY from this book. Shame on Arnot.
Rating: 1 / 5
I was all set to get this book, really…Till it came to my attention that I alreasy HAVE a book that cites Lillian Thompson’s research at The Univerity of Toronto with flax seeds on breast cancer in mice (or rats, whichever– except that its NOT whichever, it’s bloody mice! and they don’t always get the same results in both!) and it says that she is going one step further and, in a pilot study, is giving flaxseeds to women recently diagnosed with the disease. Now there is a review right here written in December, 1998, about the hardcover edition of this book that says that Dr. Arnot failed to make clear that the results Lillian Thompson obtained were for mice. The book I bought was published in hardcover in 1998 and in paperback in 1999, and I just got it in 2000. So I though maybe since then Lillian Thompson had published something in which she had given flaxseeds to human subjects diagnosed with breast cancer. Since the government has granted free poblic access to Medline, I looked up her reasearh on it. She hasn’t done recent research on any human subjects unless you count one experiment done a few years ago in which she gave various doses of of raw flaxseeds and processed (as in cooked: in bread and muffins) flaxseeds to healthy human subjects to see if what (no I don’t know what–but it was what it was supposed to be) was excreted would be excreted in a dose dependant manner and if it would be affected by processing ( raw vs. processed): it was excreted in a dose dependant manner and this was regardless of whether the flaxseeds were raw or processed in muffins and bread. But on Medline I could find no experiments of hers on human subjects with breast cancer going back as far as 1993. It’s not that her experiments on mice aren’t encouraging , but one wonders what happened to the human subjects that were recently diagnosed with breast cancer who were going to get the flax seeds. It may not even be that she hasn’t done that and published it too–it’s just that as of now, if she has, I can’t find it on Medline and I can find this other stuff of hers. I don’t intend to stop using flaxseeds, but I’m also not getting this book yet. Also to be consdered, possibly, that I do not know about: another reveiewer said that some of the scientists whose work was cited in the book have disassociated themselves from it. One might want to know why. I do think that diet and some cancers are related and that it is worth one’s while to find out what one can and try to reduce one’s risk. However, I ,too, live on a budget, I have other needs too, and i’m not ready for this book yet.
Rating: 3 / 5
Dr Arnot knows that no diet can prevent breast cancer. With the exception of alcohol (two or more drinks a day), no diet or foods have been conclusively linked to substantially increasing or decreasing the risk of breast cancer. It is disappointing that a tv doctor who is familiar to millions chose to give false hope to readers — and make money from it. He should be embarrased and ashamed to be cashing in on women’s fear of breast cancer by claiming that there is any combination of food and supplements that can prevent breast cancer. Anything for a buck!
Rating: 1 / 5