The Force Program: The Proven Way to Fight Cancer Through Movement and Exercise

by Jeff Berman, Fran Fleegler, John Hanc

Book Overview

Endorsed by a growing numbers of doctors at leading cancer centers, FORCE (Focus on Rehabilitation and Cancer Education) has helped hundreds of patients dramatically improve their lives, physically... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345440897
• ISBN13: 9780345440891
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Needed in Australia

This book is so needed in Australia for cancer patients. It is such a shame that we do not have a program like this in our hospitals. I found the book very informative and will now take action.

getting back in shape

Great book! I was so frustrated because of my weakness after my cancer treatments.This book showed me what I was doing wrong and the best way to my strength back. Easy to read and follow.

Force of Personality

If you have ever met the author, as I have been astronomically lucky to do, you would agree that it it Jeff Berman's force of personality which brings his book such vitality.Jeff's truest colors leap off the page during his descriptions of his hope, his curiosity, and his dogged drive to learn something right or to do something right or to help someone else feel something right. His book is infused with the careful urgency couched in the goofy and lovable persona that is Jeff.His path is fascinating, and his counsel is sound, most notably the admonition that cancer care must zero in on the patient, the human being, and not just on the cancer itself. I knew of Jeff's road running and triathloning, and I've seen him sweat buckets of hope and fortitude. A decade ago, I observed the Fred Lebow Jeff describes, the famous Romanian character who ran his way through a surprising few extra years, away - temporarily - from brain cancer.Good humor and hard physical work seem to work. Jeff's book provides superb examples of both.

A must read, A great primer!

As a Registered Dietitian who worked at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and who has been intimately invovled with The Force Program (since its inception), I highly recommend this book. It is jam packed with great information, easy to read and what's better, the information is easy to apply to your life now, today. If you have cancer or care for someone who has, get them this text, being physically active, mentally strong and eating well will only help to gain a lease on a longer lasting, quality filled life.This is a book that needs to be read.

The Force Program

For the first time ever in print, The FORCE PPROGRAM puts the battle plan in cancer patients hands for defeating the disease and overcoming the side-effects of treatment. Over and over again, cancer patients hear that they should exercise or be active, to improve their nutrition and eat better and to reduce their stress and not worry so much. They are told this all the time; they are never shown how to do this. The FORCE PROGRAM takes them by the hand, in a simple step by step method, and shows them how to incorporate exercise, improve their nutrition and reduce their stress in their every day lives. The book is intended to assist patients currently battling the disease and those who have been in remission for years. The program has helped children as young as 4 and as old as 86.In simple terms, if you follow the recommendations the FORCE PROGRAM offers, you will be stronger, fitter and mentally prepared to defeat cancer and be even healthier than you were before being diagnosed.The author Jeff Berman, uses his 11 year experience battling chronic leukemia with his own "FORCE" program. He developed this plan in combination with hundreds of cancer patients he's been involved with and professionals from the worlds of exercise, nutrition and psychology. You don't need a gym to perform many of the exercises the book recommends, most homes will have everything you will need.With graduates as living proof and a rapidly growing body of evidence, doctors are starting to see the positive effects of exercise and are working in tandom with patients who will work toward full recovery. The FORCE Program helps you get there.For the eight most common forms of cancer, especially breast and prostate, the FORCE Program will take you through a step by step plan, specifically by your treatment regime, for aerobic and strength training exercises and nutritional recommendations. The program shows you how to workout, when to workout, and the duration and frequency. This is in conjunction with nutritional modifications incorporated into the program.For anyone currently battling cancer, finished with treatment or just about to start, if it's a loved one, someone you barely know, a child or grandparent the FORCE PROGRAM can make this difficult experience of having cancer a lot easier. I urge you to buy this book today; we all are touched by cancer.