(Austin, Texas) March 28, 2008 - Avoiding Cancer One Day At A Time (ISBN 1592981593, Beavers Pond Press, 2007) was selected as the best Body/Health book of 2007 by Reader Views Annual Literary Awards. Reader Views Annual Literary Awards were established to honor writers who self-published or had their books published by a small press, university press, or independent book publisher.

“Reader Views reviews more than 2,000 books per year from budding authors who have worked hard to achieve their dream of being published,” Reader Views Managing Editor Irene Watson says. “Our Annual Literary Awards recognize the very best of these up-and-coming authors, all talented writers who we know have very promising writing careers ahead of them.”

The Reader Views Annual Literary Awards are granted in 20 fiction and 30 nonfiction categories, as well as 15 specialized, sponsored categories. Avoiding Cancer One Day At A Time was also selected best Body/Health book of 2007 in the Midpoint Trade Books category. The entries are judged by Reader Views reviewers, all avid readers with a wide range of experiences, considered experts in the respective fields.

Avoiding Cancer One Day At A Time is an authoritative, good-humored and remarkably practical book on how people can alter their lifestyles and add years to their lives. It describes do-able prevention and sets a needed example for American health care, where research and resources disproportionately address diagnosis and treatment to the neglect of keeping people healthy in the first place. This is an easy read, loaded with practical information - from everyday environmental hazards, to avoidance of carcinogenic lifestyle choices, to a deep and useful discussion of preventive nutrition. And there is a terrific recipe collection which could be expanded into a book of its own.