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The Plant Programme: Recipes for Fighting Breast Cancer
Packed with delicious, easy-to-follow recipes, this essential diet book could help fight breast or prostate cancer. Written by one of the UK's leading female scientists, The Plant Programme has been created in response to popular demand from readers of "Your Life In Your Hands". From essential kitchen equipment to weekly menu plans 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. - Nutritious and tempting dishes are easy and inexpensive to prepare
- Practical, comprehensive advice for fighting breast and prostate cancer as well as healthy non-dairy living and eating for everyone
- Practical, comprehensive advice for fighting breast and prostate cancer as well as healthy non-dairy living and eating for everyone
256 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2001
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About the author
Jane A. Plant
16 books3 followersProfessor Jane Plant is one of the world's leading geochemists, and was chief scientist of the British Geological Survey (BGS) from 2000 to 2005, as well as Professor of Geochemistry at Imperial College, London.
When she was struck by breast cancer in 1987 at the age of 42, her happy and productive existence seemed destined to fall apart. But despite the disease recurring a further four times, Jane refused to give in. She devised a revolutionary diet and lifestyle programme that she believes saved her life and can cut the chances of other women falling prey to the disease.
When she was struck by breast cancer in 1987 at the age of 42, her happy and productive existence seemed destined to fall apart. But despite the disease recurring a further four times, Jane refused to give in. She devised a revolutionary diet and lifestyle programme that she believes saved her life and can cut the chances of other women falling prey to the disease.
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July 26, 2025
A bit out of date with current research since it was published over 20 years ago. The key issues being she is still encouraging a high refined carbohydrate diet (lots of white rice, noodles etc), dried fruit (too much sugar), fruit juices (too much sugar without the fibre of the whole fruit) and even drinking beer and eating some processed meats yet goes ballistic over any dairy at all.
We now know that cancer cells respire anaerobically so sugar and refined carbohydrates are their source of energy and any high GI foods are the enemy for a cancer sufferer. Adding honey and molasses and drinking heaps of fruit juices is a very bad idea. Eat the fruit whole and get the fibre to make the sugars less accessible to the cancer cells.
If you consider the out-of-date knowledge on cancer and just use it as a source of recipes to add more vegetables to your diet it is still worth a read and does have some tips at the end for foods which may help with treatment side-effects.
I knew going in that I was never going to eliminate dairy completely from my diet, but I have cut back on my cheese obsession. I am not going to stop eating natural yoghurt to help my guts recover from antibiotics after surgery. I think it is best to read from many sources and find consistent advice from several sources rather than 1 while remembering that we are all different and our bodies will all have different issues going through this journey. Mine has gone nuts for cabbage....who the hell craves cabbage? Listen to your body and your test results and be honest with yourself and your medical team for best results.
We now know that cancer cells respire anaerobically so sugar and refined carbohydrates are their source of energy and any high GI foods are the enemy for a cancer sufferer. Adding honey and molasses and drinking heaps of fruit juices is a very bad idea. Eat the fruit whole and get the fibre to make the sugars less accessible to the cancer cells.
If you consider the out-of-date knowledge on cancer and just use it as a source of recipes to add more vegetables to your diet it is still worth a read and does have some tips at the end for foods which may help with treatment side-effects.
I knew going in that I was never going to eliminate dairy completely from my diet, but I have cut back on my cheese obsession. I am not going to stop eating natural yoghurt to help my guts recover from antibiotics after surgery. I think it is best to read from many sources and find consistent advice from several sources rather than 1 while remembering that we are all different and our bodies will all have different issues going through this journey. Mine has gone nuts for cabbage....who the hell craves cabbage? Listen to your body and your test results and be honest with yourself and your medical team for best results.
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