EAN: 9783319425641

HEALTH AND LIFESTYLE - BRIAN S EVERITT KARTONIE...

The main message of this book is that people should be on their guard against both scare
stories about risks to health  and claims for miracle cures of medical conditions. In the 21st
century hardly a day passes without another article appearing in the media about a new
treatment for a particular disease  new ways of improving our health by changing our lifestyle
or new foodstuffs that claim to increase (or decrease) the risk of heart disease  cancer and
the like. But how should the general public react to such claims  given that some of the
journalists writing them focus on the sensational rather than the mundane and often have no
qualms about sacrificing accuracy and honesty for the sake of a good story? Perhaps the wisest
initial response is one of healthy scepticism  followed by an attempt to discover more about
the details of the studies behind the reports. But most people are not  and have little desire
to become experts in health research. By reading this book  however  these non-experts can 
with minimal effort  learn enough about the scientific method to differentiate between those
health claims  warnings and lifestyle recommendations that have some merit and those that are
unproven or simply dishonest. So if you want to know if ginseng can really help with your
erectile dysfunction  if breast cancer screening is all that politicians claim it to be  if ECT
for depression is really a horror treatment and should be banned  if using a mobile phone can
lead to brain tumours and how to properly evaluate the evidence from health and lifestyle
related studies  then this is the book for you.

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