A good book on prevention and treatment of breast cancer

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Dear Friends,

 

Sai Ram. I am as usual, sharing with you information about a book that

made a good impact on me and which I feel will be useful to almost all

members.

 

With best wishes,

 

Swamy

 

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Title: Waking the Warrior Goddess - Harnessing the Power of Nature &

Natural Medicines to Achieve Extraordinary Health - Dr.Christine

Horner's Program to Protect Against & Fight Breast Cancer

 

Author: Dr. Christine Horner, M.D., F.A.C.S.

Publisher: Basic Health Publications, Inc.

ISBN: 1-59120-155-1

Genre: Non-Fiction/Health/Women/Cancer/Holistic/Ayurveda

Pages: 320

Presentation: Hard Cover

 

Breast Cancer is one of the more prevalent forms of cancer that is

affecting a number of women all over the world. From time immemorial,

breasts have been associated with femininity and thus any

disfiguration (caused by chemotherapy, radiation and mastectomy) is

emotionally devastating to many women. Dr.Christine Horner, a Board

Certified plastic surgeon has personal experience of seeing the

suffering since her mother was affected. In this wonderful book,

Dr.Horner shares the latest research on the factors that increase the

risk of developing breast cancer and the best ways of fighting those

risk factors. She combines life style changes and Ayurveda for an

effective fight against a deadly, disfiguring and emotionally

devastating disease. In fact, her recommendations will most probably

protect against other disorders like other cancers and aging too.

 

The book is spread over 28 Chapters and is followed by Dr.Horner's

30-step program, and Dr.Horner hastens to assure the reader that they

are really not steps and thus there is no sequence. They are life

style change suggestions and if really implemented become customs.

 

The book is highly readable. However, there are a few problems with

units. For example, on Page 74, ppt is defined as parts per thousand

and then an absurd figure is given for the concentration of PCBs in

waters of the Great Lakes. 1000 ppt becomes 1 or 100%. So, there

cannot be a higher value like 17,000,000 ppt. Similarly, a microgram

is one millionth of a gram and is one tenth of a millicentigram. A

millicentigram, mcg is one over one hundred thousand. There are a

couple of statistical errors and there are a few slips in text editing

too but in general, there is no problem in understanding the subject.

In any case, taking of any herbal supplements etc., is best done with

the full knowledge and guidance of the primary health professional and

thus the dosage etc., will be taken care of. These minor deficiencies,

I repeat, do not in any way reduce the value of the information given

by Dr.Horner in this excellent book.

 

The publisher's disclaimer of not endorsing any specific product

including the product promoted by the author is very apt and the same

disclaimer applies to this review too. Similalrly, the reviewer

doesn't endorse the specific brand of Ayurveda or Meditation that the

author recommends. That doesn't reduce the value of the information

given in the book.

 

The book will be found useful not only for US readers but for all

women and for that matter all people since men are also adversely

affected when their mothers, sisters, wives, lovers and daughters are

affected by this disease.

 

Some Hindu readers of this book in USA or other countries may get

offended by the author's naming her pet cat, Sita, who is the

incarnation of the Divine Mother in Ramayana, the great Indian Story

of the victory of Rama, the embodiment of virtue over Ravana,

representing the demoniacal forces of lust and arrogance. The author

could probably rechristen her pet with a culturally proper name.

 

I really enjoyed reading this book and strongly recommend any one with

even a slight interest in cancer in general and breast cancer in

particular to read this book.