Breast cancer has reached epidemic proportions in the United States. Once a relatively rare disease, it now affects 2 to 3 million American women. What can we do to protect ourselves? This blog kicks off a three-part proactive approach to fighting this disease and how your attitude and diet can help save your life. First up: Christine Horner, M.D., has the prescription: Eat healthy foods, add a good dose of certain supplements, get the rest and exercise we need, and avoid things that are bad for our bodies. 

We all know that October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, so what better time to introduce you to a pioneer who pushed through federal and state legislation ensuring that breast reconstruction after a mastectomy would be paid for by insurance companies. Dr. Christine Horner lost her own mother to breast cancer. She decided then that her mother's death would not be in vain.

Using the metaphor of the Warrior Goddess, Horner wrote a bestselling book that is now in its third edition. In Waking the Warrior Goddess, she explains what Ayurveda, an ancient system of healing, describes as our "inner healing intelligence." She also explores the various foods and supplements that enable women to prevent and successfully fight breast cancer, as they claim the healthy body that should be theirs.

In "The Spiritual Journey of Breast Cancer," Horner describes why cancer is a wake-up call, a time-out in which women can turn inward to evaluate their lives with the intent to restore good health and learn how to receive, allow, trust, and surrender as they cultivate their relationship with their intuition and a higher power.

The final part of Waking the Warrior Goddess presents Horner's 30-Step Program for reclaiming health and defeating breast cancer. In addition, this book includes an extensive, newly updated resources section for obtaining the particular nutrients and products that our bodies need to become and stay strong and healthy. We each have a Warrior Goddess in us, and it's time to set her free.

For more information about Waking the Warrior Goddess and to find out how you can be more proactive with your own health, go to www.basichealthpub.com or www.amazon.com

Next: We'll look at what foods you can add to your diet that will help lower your risk of breast cancer.