Whole-Body Workbook for Cancer

Dan Kenner

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• Publié par: New Harbinger Publications
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 0001
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781608825554
• Langue: English

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“ The Whole-Body Workbook for Cancer provides an update of progress in natural treatments for cancer along with practical guidelines for health, which are therapeutic in their own right and are the ‘work’ of this book. Thus, Dan Kenner’s book replaces the helplessness and fear of cancer with useful information and positive action to improve the results of cancer treatment overall and promote a better quality of life. Positive action requires work; this book points you in the right direction. Now the work is up to you.”
—Richard A. Kunin, MD, president of the Society for Orthomolecular Health Medicine and author of Mega-Nutrition
“ The Whole-Body Workbook for Cancer is a timely and important addition to the growing number of books addressing the critical importance of diet, exercise, and lifestyle in the cancer survivor. This book can provide a map to both better health and wellness for patients. Only in the last several years has research proven that improved survival as well as quality of life is possible when a healthy diet and lifestyle are adopted by cancer patients. Whether patients are in treatment or well on the road to cure, this important book will promote the healing that is open to all patients.”
—Donald Boyd, MD, internist, oncologist, and curriculum director for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Nutrition at Yale Medical School
“I fully endorse The Whole-Body Workbook for Cancer written by Dan Kenner; this is a comprehensive and well-written workbook.”
—Mark Rosenberg, MD, founder and director of the Institute for Healthy Aging in Delray Beach, FL
“Dan Kenner provides an excellent journey into the world of healing from the most feared illness of our era: cancer. He is authoritative, yet empowering to the reader. A most important work for patients, family, professionals, and students of healing.”
—EnRico A. Melson, MD, MPH, FACPM, DAAPM, ABIHM, MHT, KSJ, cofounder of the Integral Medicine Institute in Beverly Hills, CA
“ The Whole Body Workbook for Cancer offers the information and steps you can take to not only survive, but also to stay strong and support your body while receiving cancer-fighting treatments. Based on research, this book provides the tools to improve your diet, manage your emotions, and lift your spirits so you can get through this challenging time. And these are the same tools that can help you remain healthy in your life beyond cancer, as a survivor.”
—Judith McKay, RN, OCN
A Complete Integrative Program for Increasing Immunity and Rebuilding Health
Dan Kenner, Ph.D., L.Ac.
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Publisher’s Note
This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher is not engaged in rendering psychological, financial, legal, or other professional services. If expert assistance or counseling is needed, the services of a competent professional should be sought.
Distributed in Canada by Raincoast Books
Copyright 2009 Dan Kenner
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Acquired by Jess O’Brien; Cover design by Amy Shoup;
Edited by Nelda Street; Text design by Tracy Marie Carlson
Epub ISBN: 978-1-60882-555-4
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as:
Kenner, Dan, 1950-
The whole-body workbook for cancer : a complete integrative program for increasing immunity and rebuilding health / Dan Kenner ; foreword by EnRico Melson.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN-13: 978-1-57224-674-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 1-57224-674-X (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Cancer--Alternative treatment. I. Title.
RC271.A62K46 2009
616.99’406--dc22
2009038432
This book is dedicated to my clients and patients, past and present, from whom I’ve learned, in so many ways, what life is really about.
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Understanding Cancer
2. Diagnosis and Treatment Notes
3. The Seven Elements That Build Health and Longevity
4. How to Detoxify
5. Cancer-Fighting Foods
6. Cancer-Fighting Supplements
7. Lifestyle and Risk Factors
8. Exercise
9. Emotional Healing
10. Psychospiritual Healing
11. Symptom Relief
Appendix: Resources
References
Foreword
A disastrous medical diagnosis is a transforming event. It’s natural to experience great fear when you feel there is a threat to your life. Quite likely you have felt confused about what to believe, conflicted about whom to believe, and unsure how to proceed. This chaos can lead to a crisis of trust, including trust in your own intuition. In this situation, many people find themselves feeling hopeless, and hopelessness is the epitome of disempowerment.
In order to not succumb to your natural fear or feelings of powerlessness, you need the love and support of friends and family. You need confidence in your professional team of health care providers, and you need information that will help you feel empowered to make the decisions that best suit your needs and inclinations. Perhaps the shock of a cancer diagnosis has led you inward to a deeper level of self-awareness. After this soul-searching, you need the type of information and structure that gives you a sense of power and the ability to make choices that foster optimism and hope.
We human beings don’t know all of the factors that shape our destiny, but we do have the capacity to make decisions that have a vital impact on our physical and spiritual quality of life. While it is unfortunate that environmental factors have contributed to an increase in the incidence of many cancers, we also have witnessed a considerable improvement in the overall survivability of cancer and improvement in quality of life for many people living with cancer. No one invokes cancer or looks forward to receiving such a diagnosis, but you can certainly learn many powerful and useful means of integrating mind, body, and spirit, strengthening your innate responses to coping positively with such challenges. At the very least, one need not approach cancer with the sense of helplessness that so often accompanied the diagnosis in prior years.
I believe that true healing is the experience of alignment among the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of our being. This understanding has been a part of spiritual and healing traditions throughout the world and throughout history. In this book, Dan Kenner draws on his scholarship, his expertise, and his compassionate care to offer a spectrum of options and resources to address all of the factors that influence well-being and healing. A truly comprehensive approach such as this one can optimize cancer treatment, improve quality of life, and perhaps even extend longevity. Whether you have cancer yourself or are helping a family member or friend through it, the approach laid out in this book will offer you both hope and practical tools.
I wish you the best on your journey.
—EnRico Melson, MD, MPH, FACPM, ABIHM, ABAARM, KSJ Integral Medicine Institute Beverly Hills, California June 2009
Acknowledgments
This workbook wouldn’t have been possible without support from my wife, Corinne, and son, Daniel; thank you for your patience and encouragement. I am also grateful to several researchers and health care practitioners, whose dedication inspires me and whose sharing of experience and willingness to engage in dialogue have been a source of great value: Michael Broffman, OMD; Nancy Carroll, L.Ac.; Robert Felt; Helmut Keller, MD; Jean-Claude Lapraz, MD; Michael Lipelt, DDS, ND; Michael McCulloch, Ph.D.; Buxiang Sun, MD; and Dale White, L.Ac. The ­editorial support and advice of the staff of New Harbinger Publications has been a key element in ­organizing and structuring the contents of this book.
Introduction
Nothing short of being a victim of armed robbery induces a feeling of powerlessness as effectively as a cancer diagnosis. The combination of anger, grief, and fear over what to do can be disabling. The central purpose of this book is to help you overcome the feeling of powerlessness and to give you the necessary tools to empower yourself. Feeling powerless can be as hazardous to your health as any environmental toxin or damaged gene. This is a key point because there are many reasons to feel powerless when you or someone you love is faced with cancer. First and foremost, you might feel powerless facing the fact that cancer is considered an incurable disease. If modern medical science can’t cure it, what can laypeople do? Turning our care and chances for survival over to medical professionals, often in large medical institutions, is humbling, especially since medical personnel sometimes make decisions for our care without our full participation.
Powerlessness has even been the subject of scientific investigation. A study at the University of Pennsylvania showed that the immune systems of test animals with tumors rejected the tumors at a slower rate when the animals were powerless to escape stressful stimuli. The results demonstrated that the feeling of powerlessness accelerates a tumor’s progression (Visintainer, Volpicelli, and Seligman 1982). Self-empowerment not only makes you feel stronger but is also necessary for survival.
We also get the message from scientific reports in the media that the new medical frontier is genetic technology, which conveys, inadvertently perhaps, that the cause of disease is in our genetic inheritance and that medical technology is learning how to correct this built-in defect. Genetic markers for various types of cancer and other diseases have been widely reported (Petrakis and King 1976). We wait anxiously for progress to catch up to the modern health scourges, while what we can do for ourselves is often de-emphasized or devalued. If cancer is caused by some kind of inborn defect, what can we possibly do about that?
The fact is that