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Health Tips, Myths, and Tricks: A Physician's Advice by Dr. Morton E. Tavel is a non-fiction book written by a physician who specialized in internal medicine and cardiovascular diseases. If his job description didn't impress you and couldn't convince you of the authenticity of the facts and health tips he offers, his use of statistics, charts and references certainly will!
Should we skip breakfast? Is coffee bad for us? What about chocolate? How do we remedy common cold? Am I supposed to eat those food? Are supplements actually good for me? What are the dangers of sodium consumption? Should we consume genetically Modified Foods? Do we need to go gluten-free? Lie detectors? Aloe Vera: a scam? Those are just a sample of the questions addressed by Dr. Tavel.
We live in an era where medical advice, diets and health information are all around us, they can be found with two simple clicks, but a lot of them -if not most- are contradictory. Too much information could be confusing. Between the internet and our mother’s advices we really can’t know who to trust and if the so called tips we’re receiving are valid. In this book Dr. Morton E. Tavel covers in 62 chapters everything from losing weight, to chiropractic treatment.
Health Tips, Myths, and Tricks: A Physician's Advice is divided into 3 big parts. The first one being “Tips”, the second “Myths” and the third “Tricks”. Each subject he approach is in a chapter on its own making it easy for readers to read the chapters that interest them. Plus the author tackle the chapters professionally, using medical words and statistic, but don't worry the chapters are brief, straight forward and easy to grasp.
In the first section Dr. Tavel addresses health tips and advance arguments and studies that prove his medical advices. He talks about dieting, the benefits of green tea, the foods you should consume, olive oil, cigarette smoke inhalation and much more.
In the “myths” part, false common beliefs are approached. The author first explain the consequences of believing those myths.
He then proceeds by exposing many truths including the myths about raw milk, organic food and even stretching before our workouts!As I explain in many of the following chapters, anyone who believes and behaves according to any or all the above nonsensical information is doing so at one’s own risk, possibly even placing his/her own very life—and that other family members—in jeopardy.
Finally the “tricks” section exposes the marketing strategies companies use to con us into buying their products. Dr. Tavel exposes the scams using popular faces and the image of strong athletes to convince us of buying some “beneficial” products.
I initially chose to read this book because of my mother's addiction to everything branded "healthy", she constantly sends me tips and advices, and I wanted to be able to participate in our one sided conversation. I must say reading this book has been eye opening. And for that I rate this book 4 out of 4 stars. I totally recommend it to anyone who's a health junkie or has any questions concerning his health. Everyone should be able to validate the tips he hears on TV or see on social media. I didn't find any misspelled words but the added o after each chapter number was kind of annoying, and I also noticed an error in the numbered formats in the introduction and on page 123, but those errors are minor and didn't distract me from the book at all.
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Health Tips, Myths, and Tricks
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