Review by nel MEL9 -- Health Tips, Myths, and Tricks
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Review by nel MEL9 -- Health Tips, Myths, and Tricks
[Following is a volunteer review of "Health Tips, Myths, and Tricks" by Morton E Tavel, MD.]
3 out of 4 stars
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This chef d’oeuvre is an attempt to re-educate the general public about misbeliefs that circle around health issues and what-not: Health information to liberate us from “snake oil”. I chose to read it expecting some myths to be crushed in a cool manner. It didn’t disappoint me completely but it might be a bit too heavy for the average reader. If you don’t have a bit of knowledge in medicine it’s better to stay putt.
The book starts with some unnecessary reviews to boast the “high quality content”, following an introduction meant to state the purpose of the whole thing and ends with a big picture of our doctor and some information about him, again unnecessary. If you are not interested, I kindly suggest you skip this part and go directly to what stirs you. There is a lot of useful information in what regards health, diet, food, medicine etc.
Structurally it’s comprised of 62 chapters, divided into three sections: tips, myths and tricks, all surrounding health related content and general truths. Personally, I think that the amount of references and the simple repetition of the word “study” is a big turnoff. The table of contents is useless because while reading it the author often sends you to a different chapter. No offense, but I can’t flip the page that many times. As for the grammar and format per se, I had the chance to view the “nitrate” issue at page 48 (the pdf version) and some colour at page 123. I omitted the spacing, the header and the format of some of the lists and parts that I personally dislike and kept reading it. As I was reading it I noticed that there were parts that I couldn’t understand and that could’ve been formulated so that everyone that isn’t a doctor gets it.
The most annoying aesthetic aspect were the phi, pi and omicron signs that locks every chapter. I can understand the purpose might have been just to give the book a scientific air but why in the world is it “glued” in the chapter title every single time? I don’t want to be mean but it should at least have a space between them.
I give this book 3 out of 4 stars not because it’s that good but because it’s very informative and a good starting point if you are interested in researching or purely knowing more about food and health risks that you are unknowingly exposing yourself to. I initially wanted to rate it 2 out of 4 stars but I enjoyed it in some parts. I would recommend this book to anyone with patience and curiosity and mostly to those interested in studies researching health issues, alternative medicine, common beliefs and the fog that surround the medical practices in general.
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3 out of 4 stars
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This chef d’oeuvre is an attempt to re-educate the general public about misbeliefs that circle around health issues and what-not: Health information to liberate us from “snake oil”. I chose to read it expecting some myths to be crushed in a cool manner. It didn’t disappoint me completely but it might be a bit too heavy for the average reader. If you don’t have a bit of knowledge in medicine it’s better to stay putt.
The book starts with some unnecessary reviews to boast the “high quality content”, following an introduction meant to state the purpose of the whole thing and ends with a big picture of our doctor and some information about him, again unnecessary. If you are not interested, I kindly suggest you skip this part and go directly to what stirs you. There is a lot of useful information in what regards health, diet, food, medicine etc.
Structurally it’s comprised of 62 chapters, divided into three sections: tips, myths and tricks, all surrounding health related content and general truths. Personally, I think that the amount of references and the simple repetition of the word “study” is a big turnoff. The table of contents is useless because while reading it the author often sends you to a different chapter. No offense, but I can’t flip the page that many times. As for the grammar and format per se, I had the chance to view the “nitrate” issue at page 48 (the pdf version) and some colour at page 123. I omitted the spacing, the header and the format of some of the lists and parts that I personally dislike and kept reading it. As I was reading it I noticed that there were parts that I couldn’t understand and that could’ve been formulated so that everyone that isn’t a doctor gets it.
The most annoying aesthetic aspect were the phi, pi and omicron signs that locks every chapter. I can understand the purpose might have been just to give the book a scientific air but why in the world is it “glued” in the chapter title every single time? I don’t want to be mean but it should at least have a space between them.
I give this book 3 out of 4 stars not because it’s that good but because it’s very informative and a good starting point if you are interested in researching or purely knowing more about food and health risks that you are unknowingly exposing yourself to. I initially wanted to rate it 2 out of 4 stars but I enjoyed it in some parts. I would recommend this book to anyone with patience and curiosity and mostly to those interested in studies researching health issues, alternative medicine, common beliefs and the fog that surround the medical practices in general.
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Health Tips, Myths, and Tricks
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