Fighting Cancer from Within: How to Use the Power of Your Mind for Healing
Author: Martin L Rossman
A breakthrough guide for cancer patients on using the mind to treat the body, from a pioneer in
complementary medicine
Recent research has shown that the mind can make a tremendous difference in not only the daily experience of living with cancer but also in the potential for overcoming it.
In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Martin L. Rossman-hailed as "one of the greatest healers of our generation" by Rachel Naomi Remen-shows cancer patients how to use imagery in specific ways that can help them in their fight against cancer.
Imagery is a natural, efficient way of storing and processing information, and one that has powerful effects on both emotional states and physiology. And while imagery is not a substitute for medical, surgical, or other physical approaches to cancer therapy, scientific studies have proven that it complements and enhances those treatments in many important ways. In this first book of its kind, Rossman provides specific ways to use imaging in fighting cancer.
Praise for Guided Imagery for Self-Healing:
"This superb collection of imagery techniques is a landmark
contribution to the emerging field of behavioral medicine."-Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind
Library Journal
Rossman, cofounder and president of the Academy for Guided Imagery, a faculty member of the medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, and author of Guided Imagery for Self-Healing, advocates an integrated mind-body approach to treating cancer in this well-written and easy-to-understand guide. He teaches patients relaxation techniques to help them reduce the emotional stress of a cancer diagnosis and the adverse physical effects of chemotherapy, surgery, and other treatments, and to relieve pain. In addition, Rossman clearly defines healing guided imagery and explains how it works. He also offers advice for caregivers and others involved in patient support and discusses the life transformation that often occurs during a life-threatening illness. This reviewer's only reservation in recommending this book is that, in order to follow the guided imagery exploration, one needs audiotapes of the scripts that Rossman provides. For popular cancer and alternative health collections. [Readers can record their own tapes using instructions provided by Rossman or can order tapes directly from Martin using information found at the end of the book.-Ed.]-Jodith Janes, Cleveland Clinic Fdn. Lib. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
Table of Contents:
| Foreword | ix | |
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | Cancer Diagnosis: Nightmare, Challenge, or Bump in the Road? | 11 |
| 2 | After Diagnosis: The First Three Weeks | 28 |
| 3 | Combating the Stress of Cancer | 44 |
| 4 | Why Is Imagery Important? | 82 |
| 5 | Stimulating Healing | 100 |
| 6 | Making Good Decisions | 132 |
| 7 | Preparing for Successful Surgery | 156 |
| 8 | Making the Most of Chemotherapy | 181 |
| 9 | Making the Most of Radiation Therapy and Other Treatments | 194 |
| 10 | Relieving Pain | 207 |
| 11 | Spiritual Aspects of Cancer and Healing | 227 |
| 12 | Cancer Free | 243 |
| Notes | 257 | |
| Resources | 262 | |
| Acknowledgments | 268 | |
| Index | 269 |
You on a Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management
Author: Michael F Roizen
For the first time in our history, scientists are uncovering astounding medical evidence about dieting — and why so many of us struggle with our weight and the size of our waists. Now researchers are unraveling biological secrets about such things as why you crave chocolate or gorge at buffets or store so much fat.
Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz, America's most trusted doctor team and authors of the bestselling YOU series, are now translating this cutting-edge information to help you shave inches off your waist. They're going to do it by giving you the best weapon against fat: knowledge. By understanding how your body's fat-storing and fat-burning systems work, you're going to learn how to crack the code on true and lifelong waist management.
Roizen and Oz will invigorate you with equal parts information, motivation, and change-your-life action to show you how your brain, stomach, hormones, muscles, heart, genetics, and stress levels all interact biologically to determine if your body is the size of a baseball bat or of a baseball stadium. In YOU: On a Diet, Roizen and Oz will redefine what a healthy figure is, then take you through an under-theskin tour of the organs that influence your body's size and its health. You'll even be convinced that the key number to fixate on is not your weight, but your waist size, which best indicates the medical risks of storing too much fat.
Because the world has almost as many diet plans as it has e-mail spammers, you'd think that just about all of us would know everything there is to know about dieting, about fat, and about the reasons why our bellies have grown so large. YOU: On a Diet is much more than a diet plan or aseries of instructions and guidelines or a faddish berries-only eating plan. It's a complete manual for waist management. It will show you how to achieve and maintain an ideal and healthy body size by providing a lexicon according to which any weight-loss system can be explained. YOU: On a Diet will serve as the operating system that facilitates future evolution in our dieting software. After you learn about the biology of your body and the biology and psychology of fat, you'll be given the YOU Diet and YOU Workout. Both are easy to learn, follow, and maintain. Following a two-week rebooting program will help you lose up to two inches from your waist right from the start.
With Roizen and Oz's signature accessibility, wit, and humor, YOU: On a Diet — The Owner's Manual for Waist Management will revolutionize the way you think about yourself and the food you consume, so that you'll diet smart, not hard. Welcome to your body on a diet.
Publishers Weekly
Back for another highly entertaining round of Biology 101, the team behind YOU: The Owner's Manual applies its signature wit and wisdom to food metabolism and nutrition. According to Roizen and Oz, waist measurement, not weight, is the most important factor in mortality related to obesity, and understanding the relationship between chemicals and hormones influencing hunger and those signaling satiety is the key to ending yo-yo dieting. Most diets fail, Roizen and Oz conclude, because body chemistry overrules the best plans and intentions. To restore the body's natural ability to balance hunger and satiety and offset the effects of stress on food choices, they list foods and supplements that fight fat, decrease appetite and combat inflammation that causes disease. Roizen and Oz pack in a lot of material-quizzes, "factoids" and "myth busters" along with diet and exercise plans, recipes and a two-week "rebooting" program-in bite-sized portions, giving readers a chance to absorb and apply what they learn. For those considering medical intervention, they discuss current options for drugs and surgery. (Oct.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
Library Journal
In this sequel to their best-selling You: The Owner's Manual, Roizen and Oz draw on current research trends in stressing healthy dietary and exercise choices that can lead to sustained loss of dangerous abdominal fat. In Part 1, readers encounter a quiz and personalized body ideal parameters, then rather complex overviews of relevant organs (e.g., the intestines), chemical messengers (e.g., hormones), and organ/chemical interrelations. The book's second, more approachable half translates the above material into pragmatic guidelines for specific exercise and eating plans and contains sound advice on personal dieting-aid decisions (e.g., weight control drugs, surgery). A glossary (for terms like macrophages and norepinephrine) and resource list (cataloging other diet plans, professional/medical organizations, informative web sites) are badly needed. Though this book dispels many of the same myths as Jane Kirby's Dieting for Dummies and Weight Watchers Weight Loss That Lasts, it is less comprehensive. Still, it is a fascinating, informative read recommended for public and consumer health libraries for its unique biomedical basis, adaptability to any lifelong plan, and best-seller potential. (Index and illustrations not seen.) Janice Flahiff, Univ. of Toledo, Lib. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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