health/medicine

Item Description

Describes the function of the prostate, discusses the symptoms and treatment of prostate cancer, and suggests dietary and lifestyle changes that can reduce the risk of cancer.

'If you're a man and live long enough, you're told, you develop prostate cancer, period. What public service announcements never mention is how much you can do to reduce the discomfort of prostate problems and cut dramatically your risk of prostate cancer. By putting an emphasis on these positive themes, Mike Fillon's book  provides a refreshing look at an important men's health issue. Important facts that tend to be minimized in more medically-oriented books rise to their proper perspective. Two points stand out. First, Fillon stresses the lack of a cause-and-effect linkage between common prostate problems and prostate cancer. There is a presumption -- largely created by public service ads -- that 2 a.m. visits to the toilet are nature's idiot light for warning you of prostate cancer. Fillon debunks this notion, and goes on to suggests common sense ways of managing these problems, chiefly through minor changes in diet and exercise. Fillon's second contribution is to change our view of prostate cancer from being inevitable to becoming avoidable. The basis for this claim is the extreme global variation in prostate cancer rates, between 3.5 cases per 100,0000 in Singapore to 49.8 cases in Sweden. The rate in America is 32.2 cases. Fillon seizes upon this fact to suggest ways in which minor modifications of your diet can move you toward the favorable end of the statistical scale. Prostate problems will eventually pose some degree of difficulty for everyone who leaves the toilet seat up. Fillon's journalistic approach treats the subject with a degree of balance that is both enlightening and, through the inclusion of recipes that promote prostate health, quite useful as well. Natural Prostate Healers belongs in the home of every baby boomer, and you might want to send a copy to dad too.' - derived from review by Jim Wilson, science editor, Popular Mechanics 

Used - Like new.

Published 1999.  304 pages. 6.25 x 0.75 x 9.5"

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