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"This book will change your life!" - Kris Jenner"This is such an incredible resource for all-around healthy living." - Brooke BurkeFrom celebrity TV host and cancer survivor Samantha Harris comes a comprehensive action plan for helping to prevent and fight cancer and living your best, healthiest life. Millions watched Samantha Harris cohost Dancing with the Stars and Entertainment Tonight and then share the story of her breast cancer diagnosis at age 40. After the initial shock and recovery from a double mastectomy, she sought answers to why it could have happened and ways to improve her overall health. Now the Emmy-winning journalist, nutrition advocate, certified personal trainer, and mother of two offers her real-world strategies for overcoming adversity and systematically improving your total well-being. Your Healthiest Healthy combines her humorous, sometimes harrowing, always inspiring journey with research-backed advice, insights from doctors and scientists, and effective tips into an easy-to-follow, eight-step road map. Her practical advice will empower you to eat better, work out smarter, reduce toxins around you, master your medical awareness, handle health crises, strengthen your relationships, boost your positivity, and build resiliency. With this complete program, you can maximize your health, energy, and happiness for life.
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Samantha Harris is an Emmy-winning television host and breast cancer survivor. She cohosted Dancing with the Stars for eight seasons, garnering two Emmy nominations, and served as correspondent and weekend anchor on Entertainment Tonight, where she earned two more Emmy nominations and a win. She has hosted dozens of other programs, including Gordon Ramsay's Culinary Genius, E! News, Extra, The Insider, and Stars Earn Stripes, and she has appeared as a guest host on Access Hollywood Live, The View, and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? , among others. She cohosted the official live red carpet show for the 80th Academy Awards, and she made her Broadway debut in 2009, starring as Roxie Hart in Chicago. A certified trainer, she has appeared on the covers of numerous health and fitness magazines, including First for Women, Fit Parent, Muscle & Fitness HERS (a record four times) , Pilates Style, Shape, Wellness, and Women's Running. She has appeared in the pages of many more, including Closer Weekly, Health, InTouch, People, SELF, Star, US Weekly, and USA Today magazine. Named Survivor of the Year by Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure Los Angeles 2017, she led the 2018 Parade of Promise at Dodgers Stadium and serves as a spokesperson for the American Cancer Society. She founded GottaMakeLemonade.com, the online community for sharing, support, empowerment, and positivity in the face of adversity. She lives in Southern California with her husband and their two daughters. Visit her @SamanthaHarris on Twitter, @SamanthaHarrisTV on Facebook and Instagram, and at samantha-harris.com.
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Samantha was born and raised in Minnesota with summers in Chicago and autumns in Massachusetts frolicking around the magical world of her family-run renaissance festival, King Richard's Faire. She graduated with honors and a BSJ from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
In 2014, at the age of 40, Samantha was diagnosed with Stage II invasive breast cancer. Her cancer story and message are unique. Just days after a clear mammogram, Samantha found a lump in her breast. Although two doctors told her it was "nothing", she listened to her gut and persevered. When she went to see a surgical oncologist, although tests still did not detect cancer, they removed the lump. The pathology then showed it was indeed invasive ductal carcinoma. After a subsequent double mastectomy, they found it had also spread to one lymph node.
Now, three surgeries later, Samantha is cancer-free and kicking butt!
Ms. Harris's diagnosis led her and her husband to create www.GottaMakeLemonade.com to "inspire positivity in the face of adversity". Whether illness and health issues, an injury, a relationship disappointment, or a career low - the site helps embolden those who have been faced with one of life's many challenges to turn it into a positive, bett
