Health Freaks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Health Freaks write by Travis A. Weisse. This book was released on 2024-09-03. Health Freaks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Travis A. Weisse tells a new history of modern diets in America that goes beyond the familiar narrative of the nation's collective failure to lose weight. By exploring how the popularity of diets grew alongside patients' frustrations with the limitations and failures of the American healthcare system in the face of chronic disease, Weisse argues that millions of Americans sought "fad" diets—such as the notorious Atkins program which ushered in the low-carbohydrate craze—to wrest control of their health from pessimistic doctors and lifelong pharmaceutical regimens. Drawing on novel archival sources and a wide variety of popular media, Weisse shows the lengths to which twentieth-century American dieters went to heal themselves outside the borders of orthodox medicine and the subsequent political and scientific backlash they received. Through colorful profiles of the leaders of four major diet movements, Health Freaks demonstrates that these diet gurus weren't shady snake oil salesmen preying on the vulnerable; rather, they were vocal champions for millions of frustrated Americans seeking longer, healthier lives.
Eco-Freaks
Eco-Freaks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eco-Freaks write by John Berlau. This book was released on 2006-11-26. Eco-Freaks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tree-huggers may actually be squeezing the life out of the environment. In a book that is alternately alarming, enlightening, ironic, and entertaining, award-winning journalist John Berlau explores the myriad ways in which shortsighted environmentalism actually endangers trees, wildlife, and people. In chapter after chapter, Berlau debunks myths and libels about: global warming and climate change the dangers of pesticides like DDT trees and pollution fuel economy and the auto industry the threat posed by asbestos the lifesaving role of dams and levees plans to "rewild" America Mother Nature is not a gentle person, and Berlau's pointed reporting reveals the very real dangers to people and their environments when Eco-Freaks prevent us from restraining her. "Berlau makes a powerful case. . . . Thinking environmentalists who read this book will be forced to revisit at least some of their most deeply held beliefs." -Joel Himelfarb, Washington Times "Berlau says a lot of things that are not generally known that needed to be said." -Bruce N. Ames, recipient, National Medal of Science, 1998 Save the Planet . . . and Ourselves In Eco-Freaks, award-winning journalist John Berlau provides a much needed and startling exposé about how the environmental movement with its radical, shortsighted eco-activists has actually helped amplify the dangers of natural disasters and destroyed the lives and property of millions of Americans. As Berlau writes, "America . . . is still mighty prosperous, but environmentalism is putting us on the brink of danger as well. As technology after technology that our grandparents put in place is being banned, and new technologies never even come to market, we risk a public-health disaster. Environmentalists have promoted all sorts of doomsday scenarios about population explosions and massive cancer crises from pesticides that have been shown to be false. But now, because we have done away with so many useful products based on those scares, we are in danger of an old-fashion doomsday returning, because we've lost what protected us from the wrath of nature. Indeed, as we will see throughout this book, public health hazards caused by environmental policies are already on the scene."
R U a Teenage Health Freak?
R U a Teenage Health Freak? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook R U a Teenage Health Freak? write by Aidan Macfarlane. This book was released on 2002. R U a Teenage Health Freak? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. *Why do other kids pick on me? *How can I zap these spots? *Why are my parents always fighting? *Why have my periods stopped?Find the answers to these and zillions of other questions on...Sex and growing up, weight and diet, relationships and family problems, smoking, drinking and drugs, stress and depression, and much, much more.BLreal questions drawn from over 8,500 emails sent to the award-winning teenagehealthfreak.org website, which has had over 6 million hits since its launch in 2000BLquestion-and-answer format - speaks directly to teenagersThe two existing Health Freak books - Diary of a Teenage Health Freak and Diary of the Other Health Freak - have sold over 1 million copies worldwide. They have also been translated into 22 foreign langauges, and were made into two six-part TV series for Channel 4.
Taboo
Taboo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Taboo write by . This book was released on 2003. Taboo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Health Adda
Health Adda - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Health Adda write by Dr. Gourdas Choudhuri. This book was released on 2024-01-02. Health Adda available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite spectacular advances in medical sciences, navigating the road-trip of life and surmounting the inevitable health bumps that come during the journey, is increasingly becoming an intelligent individual’s do-it-alone venture. This book is a travelogue touching a wide range of health topics: from how to use the internet wisely, make your home medical kit, adopt lifestyle and food choices based on evidence, our habits and health indicators that need a watch, our gut health and stress levels, spot the dark corner of our mind, and many more. It acquaints the reader with common health challenges such as digestive and liver ailments, problems of the heart, diabetes, sleep disorders and cancers, drawing from anecdotes, real life stories and from world of news. It describes some boundaries that modern medicine is trying to explore that challenge our attitudes. And finally presents to you the human animal in a white coat called ‘doctor’. This book, grounded in science, is a chatty read on health issues, with insights and anecdotes, spiced with empathy and a dash of philosophy.
