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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Features: "Games People Played: Sports in New Jersey History" by John T. Cunningham; "Bosses and Reformers: The Jersey City Victory Movement of 1957" by Joseph M. Murray; "The Aftermath of Fort William Henry's Fall: New Jersey Captives among the French and Indians" by Thomas L. Purvis, plus book reviews. ... Read more

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From a team of prestigious American doctors comes a comprehensive, practical approach to combating and preventing cancer. Readers can asses their risk of cancer through a unique screening questionnaire, learn to change their internal environment to prevent cancer, and discover the science that supports the significant roles that emotions and attitudes play in prevention and treatment. The authors offer precise combinations of food, vitamins, herbs, minerals, and supplements to help with:

* Prevention by lowering your risk of getting cancer
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Excellent
This book is easy to read with up to date information.It gives practical advice for living with and preventing cancer.I have read several other books on the topic and found myself becoming confused by some of the scientific data.No confusion here.

Before you drink the "kool-aid" read below....
(This is actually a review obtained from the [...] blog written by Dr Harriet Hall)...

In the interests of fairness and intellectual honesty, I've forced myself to read a lot of really bad books. The True Believer tells me his guru's book is the Real Stuff. He tells me I have a closed mind and won't look at anything outside establishment dogma, and if I only read the book and understood Dr. Quack's evidence and arguments, I would be a True Believer too. I have tried, really I have. I've given the Dr. Quacks every chance to convert me, and I've hoped to learn something new, but I'm always disappointed. I've come to the point that I feel like I'm reading the same book over and over: it is always a mixture of real science, pseudoscience, and speculation, based on cherry-picked evidence and argued with the same logical fallacies.

I recently got hooked into reading another one by a correspondent who had called me an "ignorant relic" for writing a "grossly ignorant article" about alternative medicine. I suggested he read R. Barker Bausell's book Snake Oil Science and a couple of others, which he promised to do. Then he said, "If I am willing to buy three books that you have suggested and read them and you are not willing to read what I have suggested, then that pretty much says all that needs to be said."

I was willing, even though the very title of the book suggested that its message was incompatible with the scientific evidence as I know it: How to Prevent and Treat Cancer with Natural Medicine. The authors are big names in naturopathic and herbal medicine: Michael Murray, Tim Birdsall, Joseph Pizzorno, and Paul Riley. It's nowhere near as bad as some of the bad books I've read, but it is a good example of the genre and I'll use it to illustrate why I call them bad.

It offers "an arsenal of disease-fighting tools for prevention, treatment, and coping with side effects" (Yes, it offers tools; but do those tools work?) And it promises to "change your internal environment so cancer can't survive." (Wow! If it could really do that, every oncologist in the world would enthusiastically adopt these methods and the authors would be eligible for a Nobel prize.)

Its coverage of cancer risk factors and screening tests is reasonable, and it doesn't discourage conventional cancer treatment. It recommends conventional preventive measures like exercise, weight control, and healthy diet, and points out the need for extra attention to good nutrition during cancer treatment. It doesn't descend to the level of Andrew Weil's promotion of "stoned thinking" and intuition as a source of knowledge. It appears to be grounded in science and its recommendations are evidence-based. The problem is that it accepts evidence of exceedingly poor quality, and it accepts evidence that has been superseded by other contradictory evidence (which it conveniently fails to acknowledge).

A trivial example, but one that illustrates their loose approach: they tell us acupuncture dates back 5000 years to The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, attributed to the emperor Huang Ti in 2697 BC. They don't mention that modern scholars have determined that the book was written much later, probably in the second century BC. The older date enhances their claim that

TCM [Traditional Chinese Medicine] has been practiced for millennia, longer than any other medical system. There must be something valuable in it! [Logical fallacy]

They fully accept the claims of TCM. They fail to mention that the so-called acupuncture meridians have never been detected, and they speak of the mythical qi as if it were as real as blood pressure. They accept the totally unsubstantiated concept of "energy medicine." They think there is no fundamental clash between Western medicine and TCM, that just as light can exist as particles or waves, health problems can affect both chemical balance and energy balance. [false analogy]

They state

External hydrotherapy treatments have been shown to produce profound effects on immune function. In particular, applications of hot water have been shown to boost the number and activity of natural killer cells - key white blood cells in the fight against cancer.

As a reference, they cite this study. This was a preliminary study with only 10 subjects and no controls, and the number of NK cells only increased in 5 patients. A search of PubMed yielded only one other study of hydrotherapy and immune function, this one also uncontrolled and involving only 11 subjects.

You would have to put on the strongest rose-colored glasses to interpret these two questionable studies as evidence of "profound effects." And that is exactly what these authors do throughout the book. Their rose-colored glasses over-interpret the significance of every study that supports their bias while they filter out any contradictory information.

They state that faith and the power of prayer have been "validated by several rigorous scientific studies" showing that prayer affects everything from the mutation rate of bacteria to the size of tumors. This is simply not true. Claims for the medical efficacy of prayer have been repeatedly and thoroughly debunked. Yet these authors say,

In our opinion, given the scientific support of prayer's beneficial effects, not praying for the best possible outcome may be the equivalent of deliberately withholding an effective drug or a surgical procedure.

They stop short of advising us which God to pray to.

For patients undergoing surgery, they say "It is very important to use gotu kola to prevent the formation of adhesions." They say it has "demonstrated impressive clinical results in promoting wound repair." The Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database, after reviewing all the published studies on gotu kola, concluded that it is "possibly effective" when used topically for wound healing and prevention of keloids, and "possibly safe." I couldn't find a shred of evidence anywhere that it can prevent the formation of adhesions internally. As far as I can tell, the authors just made that up, extrapolating from the idea of wound healing.

For cancer prevention, they recommend everyone take 17 supplemental vitamins, 14 supplemental minerals, flavonoids, daily green drinks (green tea, dehydrated barley grass, wheat grass, chlorella, spirulina), probiotics, fish oil supplements, and for extra protection against specific cancers, curcumin, quercetin, ground flaxseed oil, lycopene, etc. The evidence to support these recommendations is sketchy at best (I'm trying really hard to say this politely).

I'll stop with these few examples. It would take a book twice as long as theirs to properly critique all their questionable statements.

This book is a strange mixture. It contains a lot of good science and good advice, but it also contains statements that are clearly false, and much of it consists of unjustified extrapolations from preclinical or preliminary studies. It unwisely makes clinical recommendations for the entire human population on the basis of a few animal or in vitro studies.

It epitomizes the difference between "evidence-based" and true science-based medicine. It is easy to find studies that serve as "evidence" for any viewpoint, but the true scientist weighs those against other contradictory studies, assesses the study design and the quality of evidence, asks if the data have been replicated elsewhere, looks at prior plausibility and compatibility with other scientific knowledge, and tries to judge what the entire body of scientific evidence means. As Ioannidis showed in his landmark article, most published studies are wrong.

The book has the appearance of science and authority and it cites lots of references. It is written to impress the general public, and I'm sure it sounds very convincing to someone who is not well versed in the subjects covered. But its defects are obvious to anyone who truly understands the scientific method. The authors have an obvious bias; they are not objective, some of the things they say are demonstrably false, and the book is not a reliable source of information or advice.

There are two kinds of science book: one aims to educate the public by explaining the current state of evidence and the consensus of the scientific community. The other has an agenda: it uses (and mis-uses) science to persuade readers to believe something that the authors believe but that the scientific community as a whole has rejected. I have learned to tell them apart at a glance. Unfortunately, the general reader hasn't.

Essential but Expensive
It's great to find a book like this if you are battling cancer. I have used much of the information in my fight. I just wish the health care industry would get it together enough to help people with the high costs of these complementary medicines! After getting a call from the insurance company's collection agency it's hard to find the money for complementary medicine that has to come 100% out of pocket.

Good for anyone concerned about his/her health
Cancer can strike anyone. This book is easy to read and has a tremendous amount of health tips for cancer prevention and treatment methods that don't involve poisonous chemotherapy and radiation burning. There are also chapters on how to naturally support your body during traditional treatment i.e. surgery, chemo, radiation.
Prevention is far better than having to treat the disease itself. Written in layman's terms. Especially good if you have a family history of cancer.

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I sent this to my mother who has lung cancer.She says this is the best book on cancer she's seen & wishes she had the book earlier when she was going through radiation & chemo. I know she highly recommends this book. ... Read more

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A tear jerking story that every Israeli and every Jew should read
There was no Red Cross for them.There was no Amnesty International.There was no Human Rights Watch.There was no U.N High Commission on Human Rights, or UNHCR.There was no one for the Jews of Europe in 1945.The remnants of the nation that Hitler and his European collaborators had tried to whipe out.All those organizations who today work so hard to spread hate against Israel were no where to be found in 1945 when a million Jews were refugees in Europe, herded like cattle into DP camps and kept many times in the former Nazi concentration camps by their `liberators,' the British.Today the education system of Israel works very hard to cover up the story that Jews were victims and were refugees in the name of creating a new `coexistence' education system.However this book should be required reading in every Jewish school in the world and every Israeli school for it tells the true story of the brutal and fascist campaign by British imperialists to keep Jews from immigrating to Palestine, after their lives had been destroyed in a Europe that pretended to be `tolerant'.

This brilliant, concise, study is presented in a perfect large format with accompanying pictures and newspaper prints from the period.It covers the Aliyah Bet that brought Jewish refugees to Palestine between 1945 and 1948 and describes in tragic and brutal detail the fate of eleven refugee ships that tried to run the British blockade.It tells of the crews, mostly American volunteers, the financiers and American supporters, the refugees themselves captured and herded into camps at Cyprus and Atlit and also of the heroic Irgun and Haganah fighters who tried to save them and in some cases brought vengeance on the British for assaulting these Holocaust survivors.

This is a tear jerking story that stirs the soul when one considers the degree to which these stories of heroism in the time of darkness have been utterly forgotten and denigrated as `myth' by modern historians in Israel.But it was not myth.It was thousands of very real people whose families were destroyed and who only wanted a country where they could live free from European hate. Unfortunately their descendants in Israel have, surprise, surprise, been subjected to one European hateful statement after another in the last two decades.This book is a testament to truth, a testament to what really took place in Palestine before the birth of Israel.

Seth J. Frantzman
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