The Cure for Everything: Untangling Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness, and Happiness

from gdemange

I feel the need to show respect for this book since the author spent a year of his life researching and living the narrative that he puts forth. For many it will be more of the same. For others it will be a new, revealing way of life and still others will find it a lot of bunk. The beauty of it i...

from vegetarian

Researcher Timothy Caulfield talks with experts in medicine, pharmaceuticals, health, and fitness, and even tries out many of the health fads himself, in order to test their scientific validity, dispel the myths, and illuminate the path to better health. However, he doesn't (in the index) cite PC...

from satyridae

This read like a collection of magazine articles, some more interesting than others. In my mind, anyway, homeopathy is a dead horse, and the chapter about it added nothing to the discussion. On the other hand, the chapter on diet, while also not chock full of new information, was engaging. Worth ...

from vegetarian

Researcher Timothy Caulfield talks with experts in medicine, pharmaceuticals, health, and fitness, and even tries out many of the health fads himself, in order to test their scientific validity, dispel the myths, and illuminate the path to better health. However, he doesn't (in the index) cite PC...

from debnance

We get a lot of health information these days. But what about the validity of that information? What should we do and not do to be healthy? Caulfield takes on the task to find out what is really true and what is not true in health information. Much of what he tells us in this book is eye-opening....