Eating for prostate health: The Prostate Care Cookbook by Professor Margaret Rayman, Kay Gibbons and Kay Dilley
Tuesday 16 June 2009
In association with the Prostate Cancer Research Foundation
“It’s a wonderful book, full of lovely recipes that I can’t wait to try. Having a cook book like this is so useful when you find yourself with prostate cancer; your diet plays such an important role at this time and having these guidelines and interesting ideas will be extremely beneficial to myself and countless others.”
Max Clifford
Prostate Cancer is a very real and very serious threat. In the UK it is killing one man every hour and on a global scale, it’s the second most common cancer after lung cancer, with over 670,000 diagnoses made each year. Yet there is also scientific evidence of a link between diet and the development of the disease and a growing awareness that eating the right foods can make all the difference.
For those living with the condition, a controlled diet can provide the most effective form of treatment but how can you put this into practice? In jargon-free language and using the latest research, this much needed cookbook demonstrates the right foods to eat and the ones to avoid. Prostate health expert Margaret Rayman, who created the nutritional medicine postgraduate programme for the University of Surrey, explains why diet is so important, what the best sources of polyphenols, selenium, vitamin D and E are, and why dairy products and certain fats can be so detrimental. Alongside this are over 100 simple, nutritious and satisfying recipes contributed by chefs such as Antony Worrall Thompson, Raymond Blanc, Gino D’Acampo and Cyrus Todiwala.
From breakfast ideas such as apricot and brazil nut breakfast bars, to salads, sides and main courses, this accessible cookbook can be used for everyday family eating, as well as entertaining. Recipes include ideas for meat, fish and vegetarian dishes such as caribbean pepper pot, chilled tomato bisque, and brazil nut, tomato and onion bread, plus fabulous desserts such as pomegranate upside-down cake. Each dish incorporates key ingredients and states the amount of saturated fat per portion, meaning this is not only a user-friendly cookbook but a practical guide to incorporating the beneficial foods in eating for prostate health.
Professor Margaret Rayman has a doctorate in Inorganic Biochemistry from Somerville College, Oxford and has held post-doctoral fellowships at the Institute of Cancer Research and Imperial College. She is now Professor of Nutritional Medicine at the University of Surrey and directs the highly respected MSc Programme in Nutritional Medicine. Her research centres on the importance of selenium to human health, particularly prostrate cancer. She has obtained funding to carry out trials of selenium in localised prostate cancer and the pregnancy disease pre-eclampsia. She has published widely, including a paper in Cancer Research that showed a link between prostate cancer risk and selenoprotein genotype. She has been a judge for the BBC Radio 4 Food and Farming Awards and sits as a magistrate in Surrey.
Kay Dilley graduated from the University of Surrey in 2008 with a BSc 1st Class Honours degree in Nutrition. She has first hand experience of running intervention studies and completing dietary analyses. While researching how food can affect health and disease risk she developed a specific interest in prostrate cancer. Kay is grateful for the opportunity to work with Margaret Rayman and Kay Gibbons on this book which she hopes has the potential to improve men’s health.
Kay Gibbons, a registered dietician, is married with two children and returned to education as a mature student. Three years after securing a place on the highly regarded BSc Hons degree course in Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Surrey she was delighted to be under the supervision of Professor Margaret Rayman and working alongside Kay Dilley for her final project. He project, which started as a review of the scientific research on prostate cancer and diet, has developed into the Prostate Care Cookbook.
The Prostate Cancer Research Foundation has two aims. The first is to promote independent worldwide research into all aspects of prostate cancer. The second is to spread the crucial knowledge gathered from that research as far afield as possible, via an internationally recognised forum, attended by the world’s top prostate cancer experts.
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