In the first episode of Life in Food, I speak to Kris Hallenga, founder and CEO of the UK-based breast cancer education charity CoppaFeel!, about Food and Cancer. The discussion covers everything from nutrition to body positivity, guilt and shame - and eating cake with whipped cream at funerals. Delve into this episode for an uplifting chat with the author of the Sunday Times bestselling memoir Glittering a Turd.

About Kris Hallenga: Kris founded CoppaFeel with her twin sister Maren after being diagnosed with incurable (or stage four) breast cancer when she was 23. Thirteen years later, the charity raises £2m a year for its fundraising and is backed by celebrities including Dermot O'Leary and Fearne Cotton. While being treated for her cancer, Kris has run a half marathon, starred in a documentary, written a book, started a coffee and cake business, organised an annual music festival, won a Pride of Britain award and successfully campaigned to get cancer on the school curriculum in the UK. Her campaigning has helped saved countless lives by giving people the tools to understand their bodies so that if they are ever diagnosed with cancer, it is caught while it’s still treatable. She lives by the sea in Cornwall, England.

• Buy Kris's bestselling memoir, Glittering a Turd.
• Read the summary of Kris's treatments on her website.
• Subscribe to Kris's newsletter on Patreon.
• Find out more about boob checking on the CoppaFeel! website.
• Book a Boobette to speak at your school or workplace.
• Buy delicious German bundt cakes from Kern.
• Follow Kris on Instagram @howtoglitteraturd.
• Follow Kris on Twitter at @krispob.

About the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. A proud Yorkshire lass at heart, she spent several years in Latin America before settling in London with her two cats. Her first novel, Single Bald Female, is inspired by her experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer at 29. A novelist by day and a food writer by night, Laura combines her two passions into this podcast, bringing out powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.

• Pre-order Single Bald Female.
• Visit Laura's website.
• Follow Laura on Instagram @laurapricewrites.
• Follow Laura on Twitter @laurapricewrite.

Life in Food is hosted, produced and edited by Laura Price.

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