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Review of Health Tips, Myths, and Tricks
[Following is a volunteer review of "Health Tips, Myths, and Tricks" by Morton E Tavel, MD.]
Do you want to improve your health? Morton E. Tavel's, Health Tips, Myths, and Tricks: A Physician's Advice should be your next book. As the title implies, the book covers information on how to improve your health, health myths, and tricks used to deceive you into buying bogus or often dangerous products that could harm your health. The book is divided into three parts and has sixty-two chapters.
The first section offers tips on health and wellness, including information on weight loss; weight loss suggestions, and procedures. This section also discusses crucial dietary and lifestyle changes that can help you lose weight and improve your health. The second section debunks various health myths, including, but not limited to, stretching before exercising, polygraph tests, gluten-free diets, and fortified foods. The last section discusses tricks often used in the health industry, such as athletes' endorsements for snake oil and scams on alkaline water, and detoxifying the body of unwanted substances, among other tricks. It cautions readers against falling for such tricks because, in addition to being expensive, the products either do not add value or may be harmful to your health.
The author of the book, Dr. Morton Tavel, is a retired physician specializing in cardiovascular diseases and internal medicine. He was also a professor at Indiana University School of Medicine with numerous publications and book reviews featured in peer-reviewed national journals. There is a chapter at the end of the book that contains more about him. Looking at his personal experience in the medical field, I believe that he would not direct us down the wrong path.
What I loved about the book was the simple language and explanations used by the author. The information given is based on facts and the author references various articles, reports, and case studies. There are minimal grammatical errors, but this did not affect my enjoyment of the book.
I found no negative aspects to the book. I was, however, disappointed by the book's general discussion on crash diets. It makes no mention of the ketogenic or paleo diets, which are popular and widely followed. It does, nevertheless, offer information on the dash diet (though not a crash diet) and covers a wide range of information that makes up for it.
All things considered, I rate this book 4 out of 4 stars as it was quite an enjoyable read with minimal errors. I recommend this book to anyone interested in health and weight loss, as well as athletes. Everyone can read the book as it is written in simple language and contains no profanities.
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Health Tips, Myths, and Tricks
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Do you want to improve your health? Morton E. Tavel's, Health Tips, Myths, and Tricks: A Physician's Advice should be your next book. As the title implies, the book covers information on how to improve your health, health myths, and tricks used to deceive you into buying bogus or often dangerous products that could harm your health. The book is divided into three parts and has sixty-two chapters.
The first section offers tips on health and wellness, including information on weight loss; weight loss suggestions, and procedures. This section also discusses crucial dietary and lifestyle changes that can help you lose weight and improve your health. The second section debunks various health myths, including, but not limited to, stretching before exercising, polygraph tests, gluten-free diets, and fortified foods. The last section discusses tricks often used in the health industry, such as athletes' endorsements for snake oil and scams on alkaline water, and detoxifying the body of unwanted substances, among other tricks. It cautions readers against falling for such tricks because, in addition to being expensive, the products either do not add value or may be harmful to your health.
The author of the book, Dr. Morton Tavel, is a retired physician specializing in cardiovascular diseases and internal medicine. He was also a professor at Indiana University School of Medicine with numerous publications and book reviews featured in peer-reviewed national journals. There is a chapter at the end of the book that contains more about him. Looking at his personal experience in the medical field, I believe that he would not direct us down the wrong path.
What I loved about the book was the simple language and explanations used by the author. The information given is based on facts and the author references various articles, reports, and case studies. There are minimal grammatical errors, but this did not affect my enjoyment of the book.
I found no negative aspects to the book. I was, however, disappointed by the book's general discussion on crash diets. It makes no mention of the ketogenic or paleo diets, which are popular and widely followed. It does, nevertheless, offer information on the dash diet (though not a crash diet) and covers a wide range of information that makes up for it.
All things considered, I rate this book 4 out of 4 stars as it was quite an enjoyable read with minimal errors. I recommend this book to anyone interested in health and weight loss, as well as athletes. Everyone can read the book as it is written in simple language and contains no profanities.
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Health Tips, Myths, and Tricks
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