Product Description: This new edition of the most comprehensive text available in the field continues to provide a vast amount of information to enable consumers to make wise choices regarding health products and services. It offers a panoramic view of the health marketplace, while explaining the scientific methods that are essential for validating claims about how products and services affect health...read more

Product Description: This is the revised second edition, edited with the help of Dr Stephen Barrett, and contains much new informative documentation. Of particular interest is a revealing dialogue- debate on the internet between the author and the chirpractic community...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This text presents articles reflecting topics of interest and concern in the area of nutrition. This edition provides broad coverage in a discriminating fashion.

Offering simple truths about nutrition and ways to spot untrustworthy advice, unscientific nutrition practices, and false product promotions, the authors condemn the health food industry for making billions by preying on the fears of uninformed consumers. 30,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo. IP.

Discusses the philosophical foundations of alternative medicines, and describes supernaturalistic healing techniques

The staggering growth in the numbers of people who believe in New Age spiritualities and paranormal phenomena - combined with the American appetite for diets, food fads and exotic cure-alls - draws millions each year to answer the siren song of unorthodox nutrition practices. Usually based on supernatural underpinnings or the pronouncements of charismatic gurus, these diet regimes often fly in the face of well-grounded, scientific dietetics.In writing Mystical Diets, author Jack Raso, trained in scientific reasoning and a registered dietician, offers an accessible yet authoritative tool to assist laypersons and health professionals in making sound decisions regarding the appropriateness (or inappropriateness) of a number of fringe nutritional programs. With Mr. Raso's help, these decisions can now be based not only on scientific standards of scientific validity, but on the likelihood of subjective benefits as well.Mystical Diets details the history, philosophy, and manifestations of macrobiotics, Natural Hygiene, the Edgar Cayce tradition, Ayurvedic medicine, Anthroposophical medicine, the Gerson therapy, the Matol movement and much more. Through the generous use of quotations, proponents of the various alternative-nutrition systems, past and present, are allowed to speak for themselves. And the author's thorough discussion of the most up-to-date research into health and diet helps readers make up their own minds about foods, herbs, vitamins, minerals, and the claims made by proponents of alternative dietetics.

Product Description: This text provides extensive information about products and services in the health marketplace, enabling consumers to make informed decisions when choosing health care facilities. Specific identification of products and services should also provide practical information for students of health studies and health education to draw on when faced with health care decisions of their own...read more

Assesses the medical and nutritional values of food additives and explains how many are both safe and important components of the American diet

Examines the theories behind alternative medical treatments, reveals the risks of fad diets and worthless supplements, and exposes health frauds

Provides simple rules of good eating for weight control, tips for teenagers, and information on diet, heart disease, and cancer

A guide to identifying worthless medical treatments and remedies discusses the threat they pose to consumers and what can be done to avoid questionable practices and products