Eating Well through Cancer: Easy Recipes & Tips to Guide You through Cancer Treatment and Prevention

Best-selling cancer cookbook for cancer patients highlights. "What can I eat when going through cancer treatment?" This newly revised and expanded 15-year anniversary edition includes chapters on nourishing foods that are best tolerated to ease common side effects such as nausea, sore mouth and throat, taste changes, neutropenia and weight loss. With easy everyday recipes using familar ingredients, you'll find this book an invaluable recipe resource for cancer prevention.  Featured on The 700 Club, CBN.  
Cancer patients worldwide rely on this iconic cancer cookbook with recipes to guide them what to eat so as to maintain strength and appetite during cancer treatment. Easy to read, with simple, nutritious recipes, beautiful photographs, tips and information, the cancer cookbook highlights diabetic, gluten-free, vegetarian and freezer-friendly recipes and guides patients on what to eat while undergoing treatment.
 
The new edition brings together 175 recipes with crisp photographs and chapters classified as per the side effects and symptoms observed. Most of the recipes are simple, everyday dishes with a healthy twist, where Clegg's "never sacrifice taste" philosophy is paramount. Clegg, best-selling national healthy cookbook author believes, "Food that is good for you can be delicious and easy-to-prepare." "Nutrition is important for cancer prevention and sustaining a healthy lifestyle."
 
Dr. Miletello, oncologist and cancer researcher, has always been interested in helping patients maintain good nutrition while undergoing chemotherapy. "Although no diet has been proven to prevent cancer, health authorities agree that a properly chosen diet can reduce the risk of developing certain cancers," says Dr. Miletello.  We also feel that a properly chosen diet can help you to fight cancer once you have developed it."
 
"We have found 'Eating Well Through Cancer' to be the perfect resource for our patients and their family members," said Megan Doyle Battaglia of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute. "Patients and caregivers love it. We have provided 'Eating Well Through Cancer' for our patients for about 8 years. It is a terrific resource for patients throughout their journey," observed Gay Prescott, Vice President of Development, Hope Cancer Resources.

"I wanted Holly to know how fantastic I think her book "Eating Well Through Cancer" is. I am a registered dietitian and teach a nutrition class for cancer patients. I was given the book as a reference from one of the nurses I work with. It is excellent!!! I will highly recommend it to the patients I teach and also plan to promote her other books and website through the American Dietetic Association Weight Management practice group." --Marci Anderson, Registered Dietitian Wellness Institute, Provo, Utah

The number one subject cancer patients request information on is nutrition. We have found "Eating Well Through Cancer" by Holly Clegg to be the perfect resource for our patients and their family members. The cookbook not only offers delicious and nutritious recipes but the book is organized by how the cancer patients feels and what they need. This book has become an invaluable tool for our patients and their families. Many patients continue to use this book years after their diagnosis." --Megan Doyle Battaglia Roswell Park Cancer Institute Buffalo, NY

Eating Well Through Cancer has been a wonderful resource for our patients. It is informative, and it is practical. Patients and caregivers love it. We have provided this for our patients for about 8 years. We were thrilled last fall when the Spanish version was published. It is a terrific resource for patients throughout their journey. --Gay Prescott Vice President of Development Hope Cancer Resources

A Note from Holly:
The first edition of Eating Well Through Cancer came out in2001 and was updated in 2006.  Still, one of the best-selling cancer cookbooks, I felt it was time to update and expandthe cookbook with a ten year anniversary edition.  As author of the trim&TERRIFIC® cookbook series, and my more health focused Eating Well series, I have sold over 1million cookbooks! My hope is that these easy, healthy everyday cookbooks havehelped people during challenging times and to lead an overall healthierlifestyle. 
 
Years ago, Dr. Miletello pointed out to me that one of the most often asked questions by cancer patients was, "What can I eat?"  Because of mylove of food, this cancer cookbook was an opportunity for me to use my expertise in recipe development to create appropriate and best tolerated foodaddressing the side effects of cancer treatment. PEOPLE WITH CANCER STILL NEEDTO EAT!
 
My challenge was toprovide appealing EASY recipes that ease specific side effects during treatment.  The chapters are organized into these different side effects with approachable simple, realistic nourishing recipesusing familiar ingredients, but with an awareness of what a person can eat ateach stage of treatment.    
 
This book became verypersonal as my father was diagnosed with larynx cancer and had to undergotreatment. I better understood the everyday challenges he faced witheating.  Fifteen years later, he speakswith an artificial larynx; and still looks forward to my cooking.
 
We hope our book will helpguide you through treatment, support the caregiver and be a recipe resource fora healthy kitchen for cancer prevention.Eating is a necessity and we hope these simple, super-satisfying recipes will make treatment a little easier with the comfortof food.

ANote from Gerald Miletello, MD
Cancer is an uncontrolled growth ofcells that destroys the function of normal cells. Cancer can involve one organ of the body orevery organ, including the blood. Once your treatment for cancer begins, you will likely notice a change in your appetite and your sense of taste and smell. The changes aresecondary to normal cells being destroyed, as well as cancer cells.  The goal of cancertreatment is to destroy the cancer cells and allow the good cells to flourish.
 
The loss of appetite, calledanorexia, is one of the most common side-effects of chemotherapy. Trying to maintain adequate calorie intake during this time can be very difficult for the patient or caregiver who is trying to prepare food. You have to maintain your nutrition in order to maintain your health and strength to enable you to fight the cancer. Certain foods that you once loved may no longer appeal to you. Your taste and craving smay change from day to day and hour to hour. You may also develop side effectsfrom the treatment or from the medication.
 
We hope that we can offersuggestions for food and drinks that will appeal to you, as well as suggestionsfor foods that will assist in managing some of the side-effects of chemotherapy.  Although no diet has been proven to prevent cancer,health authorities agree that a properly chosen diet can reduce the risk ofdeveloping certain cancers and can help you to fight cancer. 
 

 The first edition of EatingWell Through Cancer, a ground-breaking cookbook especially for cancerpatients, came out in 2001 and was updated in 2006.  Still, one of the best-selling cancercookbooks, we are excited to present the new and expanded 15 YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION.  Thebook includes over 125 new recipes with photos, most of which are diabetic-friendly and an easier to readformat.  
 

• Quick Nourishing Recipes to Ease Side Effects
• Cancer Prevention Recipes
• Caregiver Support, Menus, Tips and Nutritional Nuggets
• Highlights Diabetic-Friendly,Gluten-Free,Vegetarian and Freezer-Friendly Recipes
• Over 175 Easy Recipes with Color Photographs
• Nutritional and Diabetic Information with each recipe

With over 1 million cookbooks sold, Holly Clegg has become a culinary expert on easy, healthy and practical recipes through her nationally recognized best-selling trim&TERRIFIC and Eating Well cookbook series, including Eating Well Through Cancer (English, Spanish and Chinese Editions), Eating Well to Fight Arthritis and Diabetic Cooking with the American Diabetes Association. Clegg has appeared on Fox & Friends, NBC Weekend Today, QVC, The 700 Club, USA Today, Cooking Light Magazine, Web MD and Huff Post. She has consulted for Walmart, Teflon, The Coca-Cola Company, and hospitals throughout the country.
As a Medical Oncologist, Dr. Gerald P. Miletello has been taking care of people with cancer for over thirty years. In his practice, he exhibits a strong desire to help individuals adjust to a cancer diagnosis and to continue to live normal, healthy lives. Dr. Miletello recognizes the importance of diet and nutrition before, during and after treatment and offers this book to provide extensive, useable information. Dr. Miletello is certified with the American Board of Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology and is actively involved in oncology research.