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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Case for Exercise and Diet in the Fight Against Cancer | |
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| A new paradigm in cancer treatment | |
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| The value of exercise, lifestyle, and stress management in cancer treatment | |
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| How the Force Program Was Born: Jeff Berman's Story | |
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| The diagnosis of Jeff's cancer, his dramatic, successful battle against it, and how FORCE program was developed out of his experience | |
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| What it has done for him and for others | |
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| The FORCE Program: What We Do, How it Works | |
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| Overview of FORCE, the country's most effective, comprehensive exercise-diet-stress management program for preventing and treating cancer | |
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| Getting yourself into the FORCE frame of mind | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Getting your doctor's permission - and giving yourself permission to embark on the FORCE program | |
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| Tips on getting started and sticking with it | |
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| Stress Management | |
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| Improve the quality of your day-to-day life; calm and center yourself with these mind-body techniques | |
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| Exercise and Physical Activity | |
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| Why physical exercise is at the heart of the FORCE program | |
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| Before you get started | |
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| Step-by-step through our three-stage activity/exercise program | |
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| Advice and specific instruction on each of the exercises | |
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| Nutrition | |
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| The delicious, nutritious FORCE cancer-fighting diet | |
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| Guidelines, tips, important foods for fighting cancer | |
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| How to plan menus | |
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| Shopping and reading labels; surviving in restaurants | |
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| Supplements and herbs: What's the story? | |
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| Exercise and Movement Regimens for Specific Cancers | |
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| How to tailor the FORCE program depending on your cancer site: breast, prostate, lung, lymphoma, leukemia, brain, and colorectal cancers | |
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| The K-FORCE Program for Children | |
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| Overview of the K-FORCE program for children with cancer, and how the program developed | |
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| Ways to get kids relaxed, to get them moving and, believe it or not, to get them eating a healthier diet | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Resources | |
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| Index | |