Welcome,
The purpose of this site is to help you understand the vital links between cancer
and nutrition. We offer you this information through our Foundation's "Network
Seminar Program."
A "seminar" is a "seed bed" for ideas, an intellectual space where your understanding
of nutrition as nourishment – nourishment not only for the body, but for
your mind and your spirit.
We call our first Seminar "Nourishing Your Health: Breast Cancer, Nutrition,
and Your Spiritual Life." "Nourishing Your Health" is a personal, evolving,
learning experience, not merely a printer-ready collection of nutritional facts.
If you are at risk for breast cancer; if you are facing a breast cancer diagnosis;
if you are undergoing treatment; if you are a breast cancer survivor; if you
fall into any of these groups, you may find "Nourishing Your Health" a valuable,
informational tool.
"Nourishing Your Health" is an on-line educational resource that a medical
consultation program. Its goal is to enrich your dialogue with your physician.
It is to complement not substitute that vital personal interchange.
This Seminar has been created to give you access to the best information available
concerning the relationship between breast cancer, estrogen metabolism, and
nutrition. It endeavors to explain the "Why?" behind the dietary recommendations
you hear almost at every turn. It offers no nutritional panaceas, no miracle
cures. What "Nourishing Your Health" does offer is an understanding of
the healing potential of the foods we eat every day – miracle enough, we
believe, for us all.
"Nourishing Your Health" is structured as a series of lessons, exercises,
and reflections addressing your physical, intelectual, and spiritual needs.
It has been designed for the woman who is not content with media sound-bites,
for that individual who knows that her encounter with breast cancer demands
more than dietary change alone. "Nourishing Your Health" provides "information
as nutrition" to help meet the demands of this encounter.
If breast cancer is a fact or a fear in your life, I invite you to take your
place at our seminar table.
Wishing you health and wholeness,
Jon J. Michnovicz, M.D., Ph.D.
President and Medical Director
Seminars
"Nourishing Your Health" is our Network response to the many questions
you may have about the relationship between nutrition and breast cancer. When
you take your place at our seminar table, you will have access to the following:
1. Critical information about the relationship between nutrition and breast
cancer.
2. Reviews of pertinent articles on breast cancer and nutrition from major peer-
reviewed medical journals.
3. Guidelines for making specific dietary changes in your life.
4. A program for making theses changes an integral, complementary dimension
of your breast - healthy nutrition regimen.
5. "The power of 10, " a seven-day meal plan.
6. 50 convenient recipes.
7. Spiritual readings and responses.
8. Our "Internet Forum" where you will discover the answers to frequently asked
questions about breast health and nutrition
THE FOUNDATION FOR PREVENTIVE ONCOLOGY, INC.
We are an independent, not-for-profit foundation dedicated to the prevention
of cancer in the abled and disabled communities by promoting a deeper understanding
of the relationship between cancer, hormone metabolism, and nutritional health.
The Foundation for Preventive Oncology, Inc. is an alliance of physicians, educators,
researchers, and health professionals dedicated to the advancement of preventive
oncology – the new field of cancer prevention.
The Foundation conducts its scientific studies through the Institute for Hormone
Research, its biomedical research arm. The focus of this research is the role
of steroid hormones in the causation and prevention of cancer.
The Foundation's investigations into the physiology and metabolism of steroid
hormones through the lnstitute for Hormone Research have come to fruition in
a series of clinical research initiatives in the area of chemoprevention. Institute
researchers have made the discovery that certain naturally occurring substances
in fruits and vegetables have the capacity to modulate hormone metabolism in
humans. The discovery has important implications for the prevention of disease,
especially in the prevention of breast, prostate, and colon cancer.
The Institute for Cancer and Nutrition is the Foundation's community service
and educational arm. The Institute provides direct medical and medical nutritional
services to the physically and developmentally disabled and nutritional chemopreventive
information to the world at large through the Cancer and Nutrition Network.
The Cancer and Nutrition Network offers internet seminars to individuals seeking
a better understanding of the vital links between nutritional health, cancer,
and spirituality.
The Foundation and its Institutes have collaborated closely with many national
and international institutions. Among these noted medical and academic centers
are The Rockefeller University; New York University Medical Center; Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Mount Sinai Medical Center; Cabrini Medical Center;
Dartmouth Medical School; Washington University Medical Center; the Meilahti
Hospital, Finland; Tohoku University, Japan; and the Chinese Academy of Medicine
in Beijing.
The Foundation's research has been reported on The CBS Evening News with Dan
Rather, CBS This Morning with Dr. Bob Arnot, NBC News Live at Five, Fox News
Network, The MacNeil/Lehrer PBS production "Eat Smart," CNN, Lifetime, America's
Talking, The TV Food Network, GLOBO International TV Brazil, and other cable
network programs.
Articles discussing Foundation research have appeared in Reader's Digest, Prevention,
Self, Ladies Home Journal, Redbook, Glamour, McCall's, Science News, and the
CSPI Nutrition Action Health Letter. In July 1994, Warner Books published How
to Reduce Your Risk of Breast Cancer by Dr. Michnovicz and his co-author Diane
S. Klein. This well received work was a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club,
Quality Paperback Book Club, and Prevention Book Club.
The Foundation's Network Seminar Program draws upon the discoveries of modern
science and the age-old wisdom of the world's spiritual traditions to convey
its message of hope and healing.
PRESIDENT AMD MEDICAL DIRECTOR
John Michnovicz, M.D., Ph.D. has dedicated his career as both a physician and biomedical researcher to preventive and developmental medicine. As the president of The Foundation for Preventive Oncology, Inc. and the Medical Director of both the Institute for Harmone Research and Institute for Cancer and Nutrition, Dr. Michnovicz supervises and conducts new studies into the interactions of diet, lifestyle, hormones and cancer. Dr. Michnovicz is Director of the Medical Nutrition Program at Premier HealthCare of the YA/National Institute for people with Disabilities.
Dr. Michnovicz is a member of the American Society for Preventive Oncology, the American Institute of Nutrition, and the American Society for Clinical Nutrition. He has authored more than 50 scientific articles and abstractions in the field of nutrition chemoprevention. The results of his research have twice been published in the prestigous New England Journal of Medicine and have won international recognition.
Dr. Michnovicz sits on numerous governmental committies and medical research study sections. He has served as Chairman of the Clinical and Therapeutics Section of the United States Army Breast Cancer Research Project and as Chairman of the Clinical Health Studies Section of the Army's Prostate Cancer Research Program. Dr. Michnovicz has been a Member of the Special Review Committee of the diet and Cancer Branch of the National Cancer Institute. In 2000, Dr. Michnovicz was called upon to determine the recipients of the National Cancer Institute's "Insight Awards to Stamp Out Breast Cancer."
Dr. Michnovicz is Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine at New
York University Medical Center and Attending Physician at Cabrini Medical Center.
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