Best Books

• The Complete Natural Medicine Guide to Breast Cancer: A Practical Manual for Understanding, Prevention & Care, Sat Dharam Kaur, N.D. Robert Rose, Toronto, 2003. A beautifully written personal guide that offers a clear understanding of both the environmental causes of breast cancer and the subsequent daily habits we must each follow to significantly lower our risks of a breast cancer diagnosis. Highly recommended. Amazon Purchase
• Not Just A Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry, Stacy Malkan, New Society Publishers, 2007. Written from the perspective of a reporter looking at the U.S. beauty industry, this is actually a fun to read book on a deadly serious topic. Helps give an understanding of the immediate need for Breast Cancer Prevention Laws in the United States. Amazon Purchase
• Breast Cancer: Poisons, Profits and Prevention, Liane Clorfene-Casten, Common Courage Press, Monroe, ME, 1996. The classic book on the political economy of breast cancer; Includes how the American Cancer Industry controls the U.S. Government and the American Cancer Society; Hence women suffer and die from this unnecessary, but very profitable, epidemic that continues to this day. This is a very important book! Amazon Purchase
• Breast Cancer? Breast Health!, Susun Weed, Ash Tree Publishing, 1995 This small, but invaluable book, is for women who want to maintain breast health and for women diagnosed with breast cancer. Weed’s approach is a no-drug, low-tech approach to creating and maintaining health. Amazon Purchase
• The Breast Cancer Prevention Book, Samuel Epstein & David Steinman, 1997, McMillian. Describes all of the known and suspected risk factors behind breast cancer incidence. A book about wellness, politics and medical history. Amazon Purchase
• Living Downstream: A Scientist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment, Sandra Steingraber PhD, Vintage Books,New York, 1997. A beautifully written memoir and well-documented report on environmental causes of cancer; The best piece of literature on this list. Amazon Purchase
• The History of the Secret War on Cancer, Devra Davis, Basic Books, 2007; The newest book to document how profit interests have long controlled the American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute, the American Medical Society and other national cancer groups, thus hampering public information on cancer prevention. Includes chapters on smoking, aspartame and pap smears. Amazon Purchase
• This Moment on Earth: Today’s new environmentalists and their vision for the future, Teresa Heinz Kerry and John Kerry, Public Affairs, 2007. Describes the new environmentalist – individuals and groups who have rallied community and government support for environmental health issues. Includes the history of the Cape Cod Breast Cancer Project and the founding of Silent Spring Institute. Amazon Purchase
• What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer: How Hormone Balance Can Help Save Your Life, John R. Lee, M.D., David Zava PhD & Virginia Hopkins. Time Warner, New York, 2002. The most comprehensive book on this list & clearly written. Describes the key role played by hormones in the disease, and how you must learn to manage or balance your own hormones. Helps you understand that the U.S. medical establishment and most news reports are not focused on helping women stop cancer before it starts. Amazon Purchase
• Hormone Deception: How Everyday Foods and Products Are Disrupting Your Hormones and How to Protect Yourself and Your Family, D. Lindsey Berkson, Contemporary Books, Chicago, 2000. The one chapter on hormone disruption and breast cancer is worth the whole book; Also takes you through the cancer-causing ingredients in foods, cosmetics, and household products. Amazon Purchase
• Dressed to Kill: The Link Between Breast Cancer and Bras, Syndney Ross Singer & Soma Grismaijer, Avery, NY 1995. The first book to open up serious discussion on how bras can be harmful to your breast’s lymphatic system. Fewer chuckles and more studies researching all possible connections between bra use and breast cancer are needed. Amazon Purchase
• Green Clean: The Environmentally Sound Guide to Cleaning Your Home, Linda Mason-Hunter & Mikki Halpern, Melcher Media, NY, 2005. This is a squeaky clean book that will make you clear out all of the carcinogenic supplies under your sink, in your cellar and bathroom, and get you to begin to finally clean green. Amazon Purchase
• Waking the Warrior Goddess: Dr Christine Horner’s Program to Protect Against and Fight Breast Cancer, Christine Horner, M.D., Basic Health, North Bergen, NJ, 2005. An informal, easy to understand, but extensive description of the various ways we can change our diet and our daily habits to decrease our risk of a breast cancer diagnosis. A feminine and friendly book! Amazon Purchase
• Keeping aBreast: Ways to STOP Breast Cancer, Khalid Mahmud, M.D., F.A.C.P., Authorhouse, Bloomington, Indiana, 2005. Includes the shortest and easiest to understand description, with illustrations, of the various ways that breast cancer cells actually develop; Followed up by short sections on how to prevent breast cancer with diet, breast massage, natural hormones, exercise and supplements. A no-nonsense book! Amazon Purchase
• BREAST FITNESS: An Optimal Exercise and Health Plan for Reducing Your Risk of Breast Cancer By Anne McTiernan,M.D. Julie Gralow, M.D. & Lisa Talbot, St.Martin’s, New York, 2000. Written by some of the lead researchers on the link between how solid amounts of moderate exercise every week offer a significant way to reduce your risk of breast cancer. Amazon Purchase
• Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What’s at Stake for American Power. Mark Shapiro, Chelsea Green, White River Junction, VT 2007 Amazon Purchase