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Health and Lifestyle - Separating the Truth from the Myth with Statistics (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
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Health and Lifestyle - Separating the Truth from the Myth with Statistics (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
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The main message of this book is that people should be on their
guard against both scare stories about risks to health, and claims
for miracle cures of medical conditions. In the 21st century hardly
a day passes without another article appearing in the media about a
new treatment for a particular disease, new ways of improving our
health by changing our lifestyle or new foodstuffs that claim to
increase (or decrease) the risk of heart disease, cancer and the
like. But how should the general public react to such claims, given
that some of the journalists writing them focus on the sensational
rather than the mundane and often have no qualms about sacrificing
accuracy and honesty for the sake of a good story? Perhaps the
wisest initial response is one of healthy scepticism, followed by
an attempt to discover more about the details of the studies behind
the reports. But most people are not, and have little desire to
become experts in health research. By reading this book, however,
these non-experts can, with minimal effort, learn enough about the
scientific method to differentiate between those health claims,
warnings and lifestyle recommendations that have some merit and
those that are unproven or simply dishonest. So if you want to know
if ginseng can really help with your erectile dysfunction, if
breast cancer screening is all that politicians claim it to be, if
ECT for depression is really a horror treatment and should be
banned, if using a mobile phone can lead to brain tumours and how
to properly evaluate the evidence from health and lifestyle related
studies, then this is the book for you.
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