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The Healthy Skeptic: Cutting through the Hype about Your Health

The Healthy Skeptic: Cutting through the Hype about Your Health


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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


Table of Contents:
Introduction: Health Sellers 1. Says Who? How We Know What (We Think) We Know 2. The News Media: Eat This! 3. Diet Books: Don't Eat That! 4. Advertisements: Take a Supplement! 5. Government Campaigns: Watch Your Cholesterol! 6. Celebrities: Get Tested! 7. Health Groups: Wear Sunscreen! 8. Consumer Activists: Beware of Chemicals! 9. Anti-Aging Doctors: Don't Get Sick, Don't Get Old, Don't Die! 10. Guaranteed! Overpromising on Prevention Notes Acknowledgments Index

About the Author :
Robert J. Davis is an award-winning medical journalist whose work has appeared on CNN, PBS, WebMD, and in the Wall Street Journal. He holds a master's degree in public health from Emory University and a PhD in health policy from Brandeis University. A sought-after speaker on health and the media, he also teaches at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health.

Review :
"Simplifies the process of divining what is true science out of the hype... Belongs where everyone can access it." Booklist " Davis guides the reader in analyzing and thinking critically about health-related information." Library Journal "Cuts the myth from the reality. More importantly, he helps us sort through the information available." January Magazine An insightful and informative look at a number of health issues, this should be enlightening." Publishers Weekly "Useful to all consumers who seek reliable sources of health information." Choice


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780520249189
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 254
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Weight: 499 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0520249186
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 254
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Cutting through the Hype about Your Health
  • Width: 152 mm


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