For most of us, Thanksgiving is a day that is about both gratitude and food. For a Milwaukee area woman, the two are inextricably linked. Kathy Bero survived two bouts with cancer by integrating wholesale changes in her diet with more conventional therapies. Bero says she wanted to find a compliment to the allopathic treatments she was undergoing. "I wanted to show that you don’t have to stick to what they know," she explains. "You can engage a much larger cache of tools that exist worldwide, not just here." Bero chronicles her story in a book called EAT: An Unconventional Decade in the Life of a Cancer Patient . "EAT" stands for "evolve, advocate and transform." Bero, who now works as a coach and consultant for others in similar situations, says that what cancer patients need are antiangiogenic therapies. These inhibit the unhealthy growth of new blood vessels, which in turn inhibits cancerous cell and tumor formation, she says. Bero notes chemo is an antiangiogenic therapy, as are
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