Chris Wark
Author of Chris Beat Cancer: A Comprehensive Plan for Healing Naturally
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Chris Wark is an author, speaker, and health coach. In 2003, he was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer. He had surgery to remove the tumor. For post-surgical therapy, he used nutrition and natural therapies to heal himself. He has talked about his experiences on radio and television. Also, he was show more featured in the award-winning documentary film, The C Word. He is the author of the bestseller, Chris Beat Cancer: A Comprehensive Plan for Healing Naturally. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Most of the recipes are pretty complicated, in number of ingredients if not in prep time, and probably beyond the ambitions of a post-operative cancer patient who lacks a spouse like Micah. I think the most daunting would be the ones where you need to make several other recipes before getting started. The several other recipes would be things like their concoction of nutritional yeast and granulated garlic that they call "No-Harm Parm" (supposed to be a cheesy tasting sprinkle. The name certainly is plenty cheesy), Peach BBQ Sauce, or Super Sriracha. That's good, in that they promote homemade ingredients, but it's a challenging way to cook. The ingredients that are not homemade are often difficult to source (coconut aminos, I'm looking at you and your expensiveness) or extremely seasonal.
However, there are quite a number of recipes that look simple, delicious, affordable, and worth a try. I'm having to do a review before the book goes back to the library so this is just a wish list of meals I want to cook! Mushroom Oat Burgers. Hoppin' John. Cabbage Roast. Lentil Tacos. Cuban Black Beans with Baked Plantains (if we ever see ripe plantains in a store here in rural Ontario!). And more.
The cookbook is divided into Recipes for Healing, which is the diet Chris ate for the first year or two after his diagnosis and surgery, and Recipes for Prevention. The Healing section is much shorter: Chris recommends a gigantic vegetable salad twice a day, with options to eat the veg as soup or roasted for variety -- if you really need variety, which one gathers Chris didn't. The recipes are full of hard-to-source ingredients, but basically you can substitute anything as long as there's lots of variety and lots of veg. For the third meal of the day, there are a number of smoothie suggestions. In the more extensive Prevention section are dozens of recipes, of which I've named several above, in sections covering Salads, Soups & Sides, Mains, and even Frozen Treats. Pretty good as a basic high-fibre vegan cookbook if you can either obtain or substitute for the ingredients.… (more)