The cure for everything!
Subtitle: untangling the twisted messages about health, fitness, and happiness
By: Timothy Caulfield
Publisher: Viking Canada
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780670065233
Subjects: Health; Popular works; Exercise; Happiness; Nutrition; Popular Medicine; Alternative medicine; Sante; Ouvrages de vulgarisation; Exercice; Bonheur; Medecine; Medecines paralleles
Description: "In The Cure for Everything! health-law expert Timothy Caulfield exposes the special interests that twist good science about health and fitness in order to sell us services and products that mostly don't work.

Want great abs? You won't get them by using the latest Ab-Flex-Spinner-Thingy. Are you trying to lose ten pounds? Diet books are a waste of trees. Do you rely on health-care practitioners - either mainstream or alternative - to provide the cure for what ails you? Then beware! Both Big Pharma and naturopathy are powerful forces that have products and services to sell.

Caulfield doesn't just talk the talk. He signs up for circuit training with a Hollywood trainer who cultivates the abs of the stars. With his own Food Advisory Team (FAT) made up of specialists in nutrition and diet, Caulfield makes a lifestyle change that really works. (Mainly it involves eating less than he is used to. Much less.) And when he embarks on a holiday cruise, dreading motion sickness, he takes along both a homeopathic and pharmaceutical remedy - with surprising results. This is a lighthearted book with a serious theme. Caulfield demonstrates that the truth about being healthy is easy to find - but often hard to do."--Pub. desc.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fitness Smarter! Faster! Stronger!; title: Diet The Truth is Simple; title: and Hard; title: Genetics Blueprint for a Healthy Life?; title: Remedies Big Pharma and the Colon Cleansers; title: Magic Simpicity and the Untwisted Truth.