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Healthy skeptic : cutting through the hype about your health

text Healthy skeptic : cutting through the hype about your health

Summary
A look behind the hype promulgated by a variety of health promoters argues that many of these pronouncements are half-truths pushed to advance a variety of agendas and furnishes tips, facts, tools, and resources to help readers critically assess t... Read more
Contents
Introduction : health sellers -- Says who? how we know what (we think) we know -- The news media : eat this! -- Diet books : don't eat that! -- Advertisements : take a supplement! -- Government campaigns : watch your cholesterol! -- Celebrities : ... Read more
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243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher
University of California Press 2008

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 613 DAV in Adult Non-fiction Available

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