Description: Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything? : How the Famous Sell Us Elixirs of Health, Beauty & Happiness, Paperback by Caulfield, Timothy, ISBN 0807039705, ISBN-13 9780807039700, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US "We live in the era of health science research. Rarely a day goes by without a public pronouncement of some exciting health-enhancing discovery: a new diet, a new fitness routine, a new drug or alternative therapy. And we are told--by the media, family, government and health care experts--that we should use this information to live a healthier life. But can we really use it to improve our health? What information can we trust? Are areas like genetics really the answer to our health problems? Can we ever believe pharmaceutical companies? In this book, I will use two decades of experience working in the areas of health and science policy to investigate these, and other questions. In a way, it will be a personal search for good, trustworthy, facts about health. It will be a search for stuff that actually works. But this will be more than a simple quest for answers, it will be an exploration of where health information comes from, how it is produced and, perhaps most important, how it is communicated. What will we find? While science is everywhere, the scientific information that passes through most people's field of view (usually via the media) is often wrong, hyped, or twisted by an ideological or commercial agenda"--
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Book Title: Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything? : How the Famous Sell
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong about Everything? : How the Famous Sell Us Elixirs of Health, Beauty and Happiness
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication Year: 2016
Subject: Rich & Famous, Public Health, Personal Growth / Happiness, General, Popular Culture, History, Chemistry / Organic
Item Height: 0.7 in
Item Weight: 13.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Timothy Caulfield
Subject Area: Social Science, Self-Help, Science, Biography & Autobiography, Medical
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
