A FIGHTING CHANCE
Leading health charity Viva!Health has published a new guide called A Fighting Chance showing how you can change your diet to prevent or overcome breast cancer. This new easy-to-read colourful guide provides vital information and practical advice that is sadly missing in most cases.
A Fighting Chance explains what the scientific research on diet and breast cancer shows and reveals which foods help and which harm. It explains how meat and dairy foods could trigger this disease and why plant-based foods will help prevent or fight it. It describes what a healthy diet is and recommends what you need to eat each day. Choose from a detailed list of fantastic cancer-busting foods including cranberries, pomegranates and Shiitake mushrooms. It’s not all fancy foods though – good old favourites are there including oats (that’s porridge to you and me), broccoli, garlic and watercress. This useful guide also includes a seven-day meal plan with inspiring healthy recipes.
The seven-day meal plan, devised by Viva!Health’s food and cookery coordinator Jane Easton, contains delicious recipes to suit all tastes. Try the Tortilla Wraps with Mango Salsa or the Quinoa Superbowl Salad and the fabulous Summer Berry Compote. Good, healthy food bursting with flavour and vitality.
Viva!Health senior health campaigner and author of A Fighting Chance Dr Justine Butler says, “Women diagnosed with breast cancer receive very little, if any, guidance on what foods can help them fight this disease. However, the research clearly shows that what you eat can be vital in helping you combat breast cancer. This guide should be read by all women. The VVF believe it is really important to get this information in the public domain which is why we are holding a public talk in London on February 27 2008.”
ONE IN NINE
A public talk on diet and breast cancer from the Viva!Health and top scientist Professor Jane Plant CBE. On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Viva!Health is launching a – campaign, One in Nine, to raise awareness about how breast cancer cases are rising (now affecting one in nine women) and the major role of diet in this disease. Speakers include Professor Jane Plant, Juliet Gellatley and Dr Justine Butler. Venue: Lecture Theatre 1, New Hunt’s House, Guy’s Campus, off Great Maze Pond and Newcomen Street, London SE1, 6.45pm for 7.15pm start. £5.00 admits one, tickets available from the VVF telephone 0117 970 5190. Nearest tube and mainline station: London Bridge.
For further information or press passes for the talk, contact: Dr Justine Butler or Juliet Gellatley on 0117 970 5190.
More information below:
Professor Jane Plant joins Viva!Health to raise awareness of the links between diet and breast cancer
The public talk – One in Nine – is on Wednesday 27 February 2008 at Lecture Theatre 1, New Hunt’s House, Guy’s Campus, off Great Maze Pond and Newcomen Street, London SE1. Standing alongside Viva!Health will be eminent academic and accomplished speaker, Professor Jane Plant. Find out why breast cancer cases are rising, now affecting one in nine women and hear about major the role of diet.
Juliet Gellatley: founder and director of the largest vegetarian and vegan organisation in Europe, Viva! and of the health charity Viva!Health. Juliet will explain what it is about modern dairy farming methods that makes cow’s milk so harmful.
Dr Justine Butler: Viva!Health senior health campaigner and author of Viva!Health’s new ground breaking One in Nine report and A Fighting Chance guide. Justine will discuss the latest research on how red meat and dairy are linked to breast cancer and explain how you can protect yourself by changing your diet.
Professor Jane Plant CBE: top scientist, author of best sellers Your Life in Your Hands – Understanding, Preventing and Overcoming Breast Cancer and Prostate Cancer and world authority on how animal products (and other food and lifestyle factors) can cause breast cancer. Jane will describe her own moving story of how she overcame breast cancer by changing her diet. Hear how she used her scientific training to research diet and breast cancer and devise a diet plan that has helped many other women.
Viva!Health is increasingly being seen as the UK’s premier authority on health and dietary matters with a growing number of health professionals and journalists contacting us for information.
To read the report and guide go to: http://vivahealth.viva.org.uk/breast-cancer-campaign
For photos of the speakers, images and/or copies of Viva!Health’s report and guide or more information contact Dr Justine Butler or Juliet Gellatley at Viva!Health on info@viva.org.uk.
About the author
Dr. Justine Butler
Justine joined Viva! in 2005 after graduating from Bristol University with a PhD in molecular biology. After working as a campaigner, then researcher and writer, she is now Viva!’s head of research and her work focuses on animals, the environment and health. Justine’s scientific training helps her research and write both in-depth scientific reports, such as White Lies and the Meat Report, as well as easy-to-read factsheets and myth-busting articles for consumer magazines and updates on the latest research. Justine also recently wrote the Vegan for the Planet guide for Viva!’s Vegan Now campaign.
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