The cure for everything! : untangling the twisted messages about health, fitness, and happiness / Timothy Caulfield.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780670065233 (hc.)
- ISBN: 0670065234
- Physical Description: 288 p. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Toronto : Viking Canada, 2012.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: the cookie conundrum -- 1. Fitness: smarter! faster! stronger! -- 2. Diet: the truth is simple - and hard -- 3. Genetics: blueprint for a healthy life -- 4. Remedies: big pharma and the colon cleansers -- 5. Magic: simplicity and the untwisted truth. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Health > Popular works. Exercise > Popular works. Nutrition > Popular works. Medicine, Popular. Genetics. Alternative medicine > Popular works. Happiness. |
Available copies
- 6 of 7 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Smithers Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 7 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Smithers Public Library | ANF 613 CAU (Text) | 35101000354006 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Random House, Inc.
In The Cure for Everything! health-law expert Timothy Caulfield exposes the special interests that twist good science about health and fitness 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 healthcare practitioners — either mainstream or alternative — to provide the cure for what ails you? Then beware! Both Big Pharma and naturopathy are powerful twisting forces with 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, he makes a lifestyle change that really works. (Mainly it involves eating less than he is used to eating. 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 light-hearted book with a serious theme. Caulfield demonstrates that the truth about being healthy is easy to find (but often hard to do).