During treatment, if people have symptoms, books on eating when you don't feel well can be helpful. A few to consider include:

• Cooking Well for the Unwell by Eileen Behan
• What to Eat when You Don't Feel Like Eating by James Haller
• Nutrition, cancer, and you: What you need to know and where to start by Susan Calhoun and Jane Bradley
• The What to Eat if You Have Cancer Cookbook by Maureen Keane and Daniella Chace
• The Chemotherapy and Radiation Survival Guide by Judith McKay and Nancy Hirano
• Cancer Survivor's Nutrition and Health Guide: Eating Well and Getting Better During and After Cancer Treatment
• The Non-chew Cookbook by J. Randy Wilson
• Donna Weihofen has a new book out- Easy-to-Swallow Easy-to-Chew Cookbook which I like as well as her previous one The Cancer Survival Cookbook
• Vegetarian Cooking for Dummies and Being Vegetarian for Dummies by Suzanne Havala, and who's big in the Vegetarian DPG.
• Eating Well Through Cancer: Easy Recipes & Recommendations During & After Treatment, Dr. Gerald Miletello and Holly Clegg.

For after treatment, when people may want more information on healthy eating and a plant-based diet try:

• Dietitian's Cancer Story: Information and Inspiration for Recovery and Healing by Diana Dyer
• The Phytopia Cookbook by Barbara Gollman, Kim Pierce, David Povilatitis
• Power Foods: Good Food, Good Health With Phytochemicals, Nature's Own Energy Boosters by Stephanie Beling
• Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating by Walter C., Md Willett, P. J. Skerrett, Edward L., MD Giovannucci
• The American Cancer Society's Healthy Eating Cookbook: A Celebration of Food, Friends and Healthy Living, 1999.

The American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) has many wonderful pamphlets that my patients find helpful. One free copy of each of these pamphlets may be ordered by calling the American Institute for Cancer Research at 1-800-843-8114.

Patients can order a copy for themselves. In larger quantities, you have to pay for them. I purchase them and hand them out in clinic, but if you don't have the budget for that, you can at least encourage patients to order their own copy for free. Some of these are:

• Moving Towards a Plant-based Diet: Menus and Recipes for Cancer Prevention. (Publication No. E96-PBD/F41). 1998.
• One-Pot Meals: Recipes for a Healthy Weight and a Healthy Life
  (Publication No. E15-op/F83). 2001.
• Diet and Health Recommendations for Cancer Prevention (Publication No. E81-DH/F31). 1998.
• Taking a Closer Look At Antioxidants (Publication No. E9B-TLA/E62). 1999.
• Taking a Closer Look at Phytochemicals (Order Code TLP). 1999.
• Taking a Closer Look at Calories, Exercise and Cancer (Order Code TLE). 1999.
• Taking a Closer Look at Nutrition, Genetics and Cancer(Order Code TLG). 1999.
• How to Make Eating for Lower Cancer Risk Easy: Feast on Fruits & Vegetables (Publication No. E84-FF/E75). 1998.
• Diet & Cancer: What's the Link? (Order Code CL). 1998.
• Everything Doesn't Cause Cancer (Order Code ED). 1998.
• The Facts About Fiber (Order Code FI). 1998.
• The Facts About Fat (Order Code FA). 1998.
• Ten Tips to Change Your Diet and Lower Cancer Risk (Order Code TT). 1999.
• Facts on Preventing Cancer: Fats and Oils (Publication No. E97-FSO/F46). 1999.
• Facts on Preventing Cancer: Pesticides (Publication No. E*A-FSP/F45). 1998.
• Facts on Preventing Cancer: Alcohol (Publication No. E89-FSA/F42). 1998.
• Facts on Preventing Cancer: Food Preparation (Publication No. E95-FSP/F44). 1999.