The healthy skeptic cutting through the hype about your health /

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Autore principale: Davis, Robert J., 1963-
Ente Autore: ebrary, Inc
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
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Sommario:
  • 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.