Breast Cancer ain't Pink: Oncology Nutrition Guide for Breast Cancer Patients

by Diana Artene

"Breast cancer ain’t pink” is an oncology nutrition guide for breast cancer patients who want to understand how they cane at during treatment to counteract side effects and to sustain treatment’s efficacy, and a healthy eating and lifestyle guide for the patients’ family members and friends who want to know how they can prevent this diagnosis. This book – written by nutritionist-dietitian Diana Artene, PhD in Oncology Nutrition, based on her direct clinical experience with more than 1000 breast cancer patients at "Alexandru trestioreanu” Oncology Institute in Bucharest over the years of her PhD in Oncology at "Carol Davila” Medicine University – tries to put some light in the chaotic information freely available online or folklorically given from one patient to another. From the fact that veganism, bio foods, vitamin C or other dietary supplements with antioxidants, alkaline water or beetroot juice do not improve prognosis, to the fact that based on the current evidence the ketogenic die tis contraindicated to any patient with cancer because it increases tumoral aggressivity and the risks of proliferation, metastasis and recurrence – read and understand how extreme nutritional attitude worsen prognosis, transforming curable cancers in incurable ones.Breast cancer can be cured by adequate surgical and oncological treatment, and you can contribute to your own cure by using your head when you eat!

532 pages, Paperback

Published September 1, 2018

About the author

Diana Artene is a licensed physical therapist and a nutritionist specialized in nutrition for weight loss and children nutrition. She advocates a healthy lifestyle in which all foods can be eaten and no long workouts are necessary to be fit and slim as long as we are fully informed.

Her brutally honest book “5 Gears Diet” provides all the information we ever needed to know about fat gain and fat loss, so we can get how these mechanisms work once and for all. Although she believes in free will and that our weight reflects the choices we've made, she clearly describes the limits of your responsibility and completely dismisses self blame.

Her books are easy to read and very visual practical guides. And even though her work is based on human physiology and biochemistry, she found a way to keep science simple. As Einstein once said, “If you cannot keep it simple, you haven’t understood it well enough”.

Reviews

[Alexandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

De citit! Interesantă, plină de informații despre cancerul mamar (prevenție, diagnostic, nutriție oncologică personalizată și tratament personalizat). Cartea conține printre altele, capitole dedicate pacientelor tinere, pacientelor gravide, celor vârstnice și celor cu mutații BRCA 1/2. Sfaturile de nutriție se găsesc la finalul fiecărui capitol. Pentru prevenția bolii și pentru prevenția recidivei, accentul se pune pe alimentație sănătoasă si pe stil de viață sănătos. Asta înseamnă că mâncăm inclusiv carne și lactate (respectând principiul moderației), nu luăm suplimente alimentare după ureche, nu discredităm munca medicilor, facem sport și evităm stresul. Ușor de zis, greu de făcut, după cum recunoaște autoarea. Am apreciat faptul că la sfârșitul fiecărui capitol există o pagină unde ești invitată sau invitat să notezi un lucru pe care l-ai învățat, reamintit sau confirmat citind capitolul respectiv. Un singur lucru :) De citit, mă repet, deși nu pune atât de mult accent pe nutriție, pe cât promite titlul.