Review by masterhawk88 -- Health Tips, Myths, and Tricks

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[Following is a volunteer review of "Health Tips, Myths, and Tricks" by Morton E Tavel, MD.]

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4 out of 4 stars

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Health Tips, Myths, And Tricks by Morton E. Tavel, M.D. is a fairly comprehensive, easy to read, and well sourced guide better eating and a more healthy lifestyle. While reading the book I was constantly looking up cited sources, and scrutinizing for any political or monetary agenda. Neither apparent, and instead a factual based interesting read in to your body, old wives tales, and underhanded schemes to get your money.

Split in to three sections, Tips, Myths, and Tricks then further broken in to digestible chapters, the author has made it very easy to find any topi the book covers with just a glance at the table of contents. Each of the three sections delving in separate areas of health, as their names suggest. There’s also overlap between the sections, making it worth reading the entire book rather than jumping between passages.

The first two sections, Tips, and Myths focus on helping the reader better understand how the body uses certain food types, vitamins and minerals, and debunking common misunderstandings related to food and health respectively. Readers who want to know why trans fats are bad, or if grandma was right about olive oil will find these sections interesting reads. Informative and written in a way that most will be able to understand. There is also the occasional humorous aside that prevents the book from becoming to dry a read.

The third section however struck me as the most interesting. Here is where we find out how fads that are popping up such as the “alkaline diet” are not just phony, but often are extremely dangerous. Many of the most popular fads going today are just snake oil, and while I already knew that much, seeing well sourced and reasoned arguments answered most questions I had as to why and how. In my personal opinion everyone should read this book for section 3 alone.

I give Health Tips, Myths, And Tricks by Morton E. Tavel, M.D. a perfect 4 out of 4 stars. Everyone, and I mean everyone needs to read this book. It’s possible that sometime in the future as new studies are done and information released, the work could become dated, but for now it’s a handy source of important health info that’s easy to read, easy to digest, and seems to have no motive other than informing the reader on how to live a long and healthy life.

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