Beat Cancer's Butt

By Helen Page

Has cancer left you feeling powerless? You do have choices. Beat Cancer’s Butt by Helen Page is an approachable, empowering guide to enhancing your health and well-being. If you knew simple lifestyle changes might significantly help improve your chances of beating cancer, would you make them?

‘I fell to pieces the day I was diagnosed with womb cancer at the age of 36. I cried. I wallowed. I prayed. I felt like giving up. Then I decided enough was enough. I had to DO something to help myself. And so began a period of intense research, marking the start of my cancer battle and forming the basis of this book.’

Beat Cancer’s Butt is a humorous and inspiring book, part personal, part factual. It covers the ‘What, Why and How’ questions around diet, lifestyle, personality and positive thinking. Optimise your health and wellbeing and take an active stand against cancer today!

There’s so much information on the internet about cancer, some of it conflicting, lots of it confusing. Beat Cancer’s Butt is the go-to guide for an overview of current research and how to put this knowledge into practice. From dietary and lifestyle choices to maximising your Doctor’s appointment, building a support network and adopting a positive attitude. Read this book for facts, practical tips, meal plans and recipes. It’s invaluable information, all in one place.

Beat Cancer’s Butt begins with the cave (wo)man theory. Our lives back then versus our lives right now. The difference is startling in terms of the foods we eat, the toxins in our environment and our sedentary lifestyles. Food is a major difference: discover why organic is best, why sugar is the modern-day tobacco, why hormones and toxins build up in our cells and the best bit...how we can reverse the effect with minimal effort! Learn what does count towards your ‘7 a day’, what an antioxidant is and consider taking a quantitative and qualitative approach to fruit and vegetables.

A stressful existence has become the modern day ‘norm’ but are we designed to cope with it? The cave (wo)man could just ‘be’ without worrying about the school run or the bills or the next round of redundancies. How does stress impact on our hormones and immune system? Is there such a thing as the cancer personality or a link between health and positive thinking? If so, how can we alter our thinking patterns to allow for a calmer existence?

There are different ways of coping with cancer: you could put on rose-tinted glasses and assume all will be fine or hibernate under a duvet with chocolate digestives, wallowing in the unfairness of it all. Beat Cancer’s Butt is neither of these. It’s a realistic and practical approach that asks the reader to face cancer head on. It recognises there’ll be ‘dark days’; it discusses grief and when to seek medical help for clinical depression. It also puts the reader in the driver’s seat. It helps them submit to self-analysis, get a support network around them and make positive diet and lifestyle choices. It’s a book about empowerment. It’s a book about putting on those boxing gloves and fighting back!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Helen Page
• Release date: May 25, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310721106

Helen Page

Helen hasn't always been a writer. She was diagnosed with womb cancer at the age of 36, only 2 short months after getting married. Following diagnosis came a period of soul searching, researching and revisions to her daily diet and lifestyle choices. Feeling empowered and in some ways healthier than ever before, Helen set about putting her experiences and knowledge down on paper in the hope of helping other people with the cancer. This is how 'Beat Cancer's Butt' came about.Helen holds degrees from the University of Birmingham and the University of Southampton. She worked as full time a social worker in the UK before her partner was offered a job in Hong Kong. Helen and her now husband have lived in Hong Kong for 18 months and are enjoying the life experiences this move has given them.

Book preview

Beat Cancer’s Butt

Taking control IS the ‘Big C’!

Positive steps that YOU can take to maximise your chances of recovery.

by Helen Page

Copyright 2014 Helen Page

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Table of Contents

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: My story

Chapter Three: Back to Basics: What we can learn from the caveman

Chapter Four: The Evils of Sugar

Chapter Five: The Oxygen Connection

Chapter Six: pH and Cancer

Chapter Seven: Fruit ‘n’ Veg ‘n’ Antioxidants

Chapter Eight: The Oestrogen Connection

Chapter Nine: A Note on Other Foods

Chapter Ten: Meal Planning

Chapter Eleven: Maximising your GP Appointment

Chapter Twelve: The Importance of Support

Chapter Thirteen: The Cancer Personality

Chapter Fourteen: Grief and Emotional Freedom

Chapter Fifteen: A Note on Depression

Chapter Sixteen: A Positive Attitude

Chapter Seventeen: Beat Cancer’s Butt: A Check List

Chapter Eighteen: Good Luck!

About the Author

Bibliography

Chapter One: Introduction

If you’re reading this book, most likely you’ve received the devastating diagnosis of cancer, or perhaps you have a friend or family member who is suffering from the disease. My thoughts are with you and I wish you the very best.

When I was first diagnosed with cancer, I fell to pieces. I kept asking ‘Why me?’ I cried. I wallowed. I prayed. I felt like giving up. Then I decided that enough was enough. I felt the need to DO something to help myself besides taking my medication and keeping appointments.

This book will focus on taking an active stand against cancer. It’ll discuss positive dietary and lifestyle changes that you can make today to give yourself the optimum chance of recovery. It’ll also explain why these changes are important for fighting the disease and for future cancer prevention. There’ll be handy hints and recipes to try so you can put theory into practice straight away.

Cancer can leave you feeling angry, frightened and out of control. That’s only natural. Don’t be afraid to shout, scream, cry, it’s therapeutic to let it out! Do what you need to do to release those feelings. The slogan ‘feel the fear and do it anyway’ comes to mind. Cancer is an enemy invading your body. Convert that anger and fear into energy for positive change.

So put on those boxing gloves. Move into the ring. It’s time to start fighting back!

Chapter Two: My story

I was having a great day. It was my first day of working after a year of being unemployed. I was so excited to be ‘useful’ again! I was just getting stuck into a nice meaty task when the mobile began ringing. I was surprised to hear the Doctor’s voice on the other end of the phone but it didn’t register with me then that he was calling with bad news.

Hello Doctor, how are you? I said, as if he was calling for a friendly chat!

The Doctor had been so optimistic the last time I had spoken to him. I’d just had surgery to remove a fibroid that he felt was preventing me from falling pregnant. He was really pleased with how well the surgery had gone. He felt now that the fibroid had been removed, there was nothing stopping us conceiving. My womb was ready and raring to go! So it couldn’t be bad news now, right?

Can you talk, he said.

Sure, I replied, just give me a minute to step outside the office.

So, Doctor, is everything ok?.

Actually, no, he said. We’ve had some results back from the biopsy we took, and I had to ring you straight away.

Biopsy? What biopsy? I didn’t have a biopsy?

We always do a biopsy as a standard procedure these days. Which is good news, actually, as we’ve caught things early.

Caught what early, what do you mean?

Your lab results have come back showing that you have some abnormal cells in your womb

What do you mean abnormal?

I don’t really want to tell you over the phone, is it possible you could come into the surgery tomorrow morning to discuss it?

Tomorrow, that’s fine. But what do you mean abnormal?

I’d rather not tell you over the phone. Let’s discuss it tomorrow.

Tomorrow? I need to know now.

Biopsy. Abnormal cells. The penny was dropping and alarm bells were ringing.

Do you mean cancer? I say in a small voice. Did I actually verbalise that thought?

"Yes, but we’ve caught it early, which is good news. Come in tomorrow and we can talk about it properly. I can’t give you an appointment as I’m fully booked but I’ll fit you in in between patients. I’m sorry but it may be a bit of a wait."

I hung up the phone. Cancer? Cancer? Me? Noooo! I’m only 36. The Doctor had said the operation had gone well. Surely there must be a mistake. But what if there’s not? Oh God, oh God, why me God?

I wanted to cry but I was too stunned. I went back to the office, explained that I needed to go home, there’d been an emergency. Not great on my first day but unavoidable in the circumstances. I wanted to grab my bag and run but that wouldn’t be dignified! I asked my colleague to finish the document I’d been working on, hoping for a ‘Sure, no problem, if there’s been an emergency you’d better dash’.

So where have you saved it to? How far have you got up to? Come on, come on, don’t cry, don’t cry… "I hope everything