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The Healthy Skeptic: Cutting through the Hype about Your Health

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Manufacturer: University of California Press

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It happens every day: we pick up a newspaper or magazine or turn on the television and are bombarded with urgent advice about how to stay healthy. Lose weight! Lower your cholesterol! Early detection saves lives! Sunscreen prevents cancer! But in many cases, pronouncements we rarely think to question turn out to be half-truths that are being pushed by various individuals or groups to advance their own agendas. The Healthy Skeptic explores who these health promoters are--from journalists and celebrities to industry-funded groups and consumer activists--what their motives are, and how they are spinning us in ways we often don't realize.
This treasure trove of little-known facts, written by a seasoned health reporter, provides invaluable tips, tools, and resources to help readers think more critically about what they're being told. Becoming a healthy skeptic is vital, Davis argues, because following the right advice can have a profound impact on overall health and longevity.

IN TEN ENTERTAINING CHAPTERS, ROBERT J. DAVIS DISCUSSES:
* Diets and why they don't work
* Dietary supplements
* The campaign to reduce cholesterol
* Celebrity exhortations to "get tested"
* Sunscreen and its promoters' claims
* The antichemical activists


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 613
EAN: 9780520249189
ISBN: 0520249186
Label: University of California Press
Manufacturer: University of California Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 254
Publication Date: 2008-06-01
Publisher: University of California Press
Studio: University of California Press


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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

A must read for worrywarts, hypochondriacs, sheep, and lemmings. -
Having been a fan of Robert Davis's work since "HealthWeek" on PBS, I expected "The Healthy Skeptic" to be an important book with a timely and critical message. It is. It is also a surprisingly fun and terribly interesting read. Before you blindly trust in your doctor, medical news, drug company ads, celebrity diet books, and even Oprah, read this entertaining book.

Valuable Information -
Readers will find valuable information in The Healthy Skeptic. The research is thorough. The writing is reader-friendly.

Buy this book. -
This book has been passed around the family and we bought an extra copy for our local library. In these days of overblown health stories that offer too much, it's nice to have Robert Davis sane and smart advice keeping us readers anchored.

Something to think about... -
I want to encourage a healthy lifestyle for my family, but it is difficult with all the changing data from the news media, web sites, etc. This is a good book to help you make informed decisions on a variety of health care issues. I suggest reading it to help you come to your own decisions about what is the best choice to make for your lifestyle.

A Lot of good advice -
Robert Davis has given us a good wake up call here. He reminds us how easy it is to get complacent in our lifestyle, going from diet to diet, falling prey to the latest fad health tips. "The Healthy Skeptic" doles out a good dose of common sense, backed up by a book-full of reminders to check out the research behind what we think is good advice - those "health" claims may not be supported by anything more than the air it took the promoters to utter their words aloud. A good read!

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