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As I looked at other reviews of this book, I wondered how many of the reviewers had cancer while using it (a few mention being in chemo treatment) and, if so, were they making the recipes or did they have people who were making the food for them? Because I cannot imagine my mom, a lifelong capable user of difficult recipes, making most of the things in this book and she hasn't even started chemo. She can barely stand upright for ten minutes, let alone prepare an entire dish.

I've been looking through cookbooks trying to find foods that are going to settle well, be easy-to-digest and not taste gross, which is why this particular title appealed to me. However, these are not simple five-ingredients/15 minute instructions. Some of the foods contained herein could be found in Saveur magazine - yummy but time-consuming to prepare and requiring ingredients that have to be hunted down because they don't just appear on the shelves of every grocery store.
I cannot imagine being weak, dizzy, tired, and out-of-breath and pulling most of these off. Good grief, I can't even imagine getting home after 11 hours of work and whipping one of these up to bring to my mom! The book is a little elitist in that it seems to assume the recipe-makers are going to have abundant time, energy, resources, and cash flow. Between the two of us, we could barely cover those four things when she was healthy. Now? Yeah, not so much.

So far, I've had much better success with [b:Betty Crocker Living with Cancer Cookbook|12472037|Betty Crocker Living with Cancer Cookbook|Kris Ghosh|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1360057077s/12472037.jpg|17456174] (granted, that one is not nearly as health-oriented as The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen but it's still full of easy recipes that you can health-up yourself) and [b:What to Eat During Cancer Treatment: 100 Great-Tasting, Family-Friendly Recipes to Help You Cope|6649705|What to Eat During Cancer Treatment 100 Great-Tasting, Family-Friendly Recipes to Help You Cope|Jeanne Besser|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1328742275s/6649705.jpg|6844276]. Both of these have plenty of simple things made of easy-to-obtain ingredients so that, for the nights I can't bring her dinner, I can bring her the ingredients in advance along with a notecard telling her how to finish assembling them so she can still have something good, tasty, and moderately healthy to eat and it won't take more than a couple of minutes and minimal effort.

I would recommend this particular book to healthy people who have access to locally-grown/raised, 100% natural and organic and pesticide-free groceries as well as a large kitchen, a lot of time, and plenty of energy. It would be a wonderful book for preventing cancer and probably a host of other diseases, as well, because all the food in here practically glows with fortitude, anti-oxidants, and robustliness.