Hype : A doctor's guide to medical myths, exaggerated claims, and bad advice -- how to tell what's real and what's not
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- ISBN: 9781250149305 (hardcover) :
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Physical Description:
regular print
xvii, 284 pages ; 22 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Worrywarts and fearmongers: the dangers of magical or misinformed thinking -- A site to behold: the Wild West of internet medicine: how to Yelp your doctor, check your symptoms, and Google if you're dying -- Risky business: what ebola and your car have in common: how to put risk into perspective -- Turf wars: an important lesson in correlations: how to understand cause, link, and association -- Get me off your f*cking mailing list: a study worthy of your attention: how to make sense of medical research jargon -- Tipping the scale on a balanced diet: you are not always what you eat: how to filter out the noise on juicing, going gluten-free, detoxing, and GMOs -- Fat-free sugar, organic cookies, and "fresh" produce: a walk through the supermarket: how to read a label -- The true cost of being fortified: supplements, powders, and potions: how to remain vital without vitamins -- Raise your glass: water, water, everywhere: how to be smart without drinking smart water -- Putting the C back in CAM: complementary alternative medicine: how to stay natural while taking your medicine -- Take a shot: the perils of losing the herd: how vaccines save the community, the home, and your health -- Testing, testing, one, two, three: from the outside looking in: how to determine when to get checked, X-rayed, swabbed, or poked -- When 50 is the new 40: drinking from the fountain of youth: how to age gracefully, without really trying -- Hyped exercise: climb every mountain: when walking beats running -- Don't believe the hype: is it all hype? |
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Subject: | Medical misconceptions Medicine, Popular |
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- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2018 April #1
In this common-sense guide, UCLA surgeon Shapiro and coauthor Loberg answer such health questions as whether vaccines cause autism (no) and why gluten-free diets can lead to higher levels of arsenic in the body (rice flour naturally contains the chemical). Shapiro wants patients to do the right thing by getting inoculations (as she and her family have) to ward off diseases like HPV and chicken pox, but she also reassures parents that they can lighten up when it comes to panicking about a little sugar. Each chapter ends with a helpful "hype alert" box that summarizes key points, such as "More men die with prostate cancer than of prostate cancer" and "You are exposed to more aluminum and formaldehyde in nature through air, food, and drink than what you'll get in a vaccine." Money-saving tips include passing on the bottled water, which costs 2,000 times as much as tap (chemicals in the plastic may leach into the beverage, too). Complete with an index, this is an extremely useful, easy-to-read handbook. Copyright 2018 Booklist Reviews. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2018 February #3
Surgeon Shapiro (
Copyright 2018 Publishers Weekly.Take a Deep Breath ) sets out to clear up medical misperceptions in this feisty, fact-filled diatribe (even the acknowledgment page complains that "hype abounds and needs to be bashed"). She tackles such questions as how to put risk into perspective (readers should worry more about eclairs than Ebola), how to understand the causation/correlation distinction, and how to make sense of medical jargon, with the overall aim of turning patients into savvy consumers and perceptive judges of information. Shapiro argues for accuracy on such topics as the efficacy of vaccinations (she comes down hard on the "antivaxx" movement) and shares research on the utility of vitamins (the main outcome of which, she claims, is "very expensive pee and poop"), drinking eight glasses of water per day ("follow the money" to the multibillion-dollar bottled-water industry), and juicing (skip the blender and just eat fruits and veggies). Her skeptical, no-nonsense approach and probing assessment of fact versus fiction make for lively reading that is likely to help readers make better health and medical choices.(May)