You've Been Had!
Subtitle: How the Media and Environmentalists Turned America into a Nation of Hypochondriacs
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: June 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780813530505
Subjects: Media studies; Media, information & communication industries; Public health & preventive medicine; Political; Environmental health; Conservatism; Environmental Policy; Responsibility; Philosophy; Consumer Health; Nature/Ecology; USA; Health Care Issues; Consumer education; Quacks and quackery; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Environmental Science; Mass media in health education
Description: "With all of the negative media about environmental threats over the last four decades, is it any wonder that most people believe disaster is just around the corner? But despite what the media would lead us to believe, annual reports from the Surgeons General show that Americans are the healthiest they have ever been, are becoming healthier, and are, in fact, the healthiest people on the planet.

In You've Been Had! Melvin Benarde aims to set the record straight and to counteract the culture of complaint and worry with an unbiased account of the scientific facts - facts that suggest we are anxious and frightened about the wrong things. Contrary to media reports, he argues, the environmental factors that most adversely affect our health are those that are within our power to alter, such as smoking, diet, drugs, stress, guns, speed, and our sedentary lifestyle."--BOOK JACKET.