Re: review of A Call to Women, "Big breast book" page D3, Dec. 7 Dear Editor, After 14 years of following conventional medical advice for preventing breast cancer (don't smoke, exercise, consume 5-7 servings of fresh vegetables and fruits, whole grains and low fat dairy products daily, breastfeed your children, don't have a relative with breast cancer, get regular checkups and mammograms) I got breast cancer. Yes, it IS awfully unfair. Had I done only half of Sat Dharam Kaur's suggestions for the past five years, there is a scientifically researched probability that I would not have this disease. Breast cancer is not a random misfortune. It is caused. I am grateful to Sat Dharam Kaur for giving women like me concrete, well-researched (though suppressed and ridiculed) means to get well and avoid recurrence. If that means saying no to sugar, coffee, dairy, nail polish and pesticides, or rebounding for minutes (not hours) daily, or chopping sprouts into a salad, it's worth the inconvenience, expense and time. To suggest that I should choose wine and cosmetics over my health is cruel and insulting. By the way, the book is a hefty referenced, annotated and indexed 391 pages, not 191 pages as stated in the article. Aliss T. Remember we are NOT Doctors and have NO medical training. This site is like an Encylopedia - there are many pages, many links on many topics. Support our work with any size DONATION - see left side of any page - for how to donate. You can help raise awareness of CAM.