The healthy skeptic cutting through the hype about your health /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c2008.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10676227 |
Table of 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 : get tested!
- Health groups : wear sunscreen!
- Consumer activists : beware of chemicals!
- Anti-aging doctors : don't get sick, don't get old, don't die!
- Guaranteed! over-promising on prevention.