Newly Expanded! The World's Greatest Treasury of Health Secrets

by Bottom Line Publications

Book Overview

Great Health book! This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887235166
• ISBN13: 9780887235160
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Bottom Line Publications
• Length: 563 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.

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"Every" Imaginable Health Topic Covered in One Volume

This may not be exactly the world's biggest treasury, but it sure is comprehensive! Those who complain that this book covers information already available elsewhere miss the point: One would have to read many health-related books to distill the essence presented in this one volume. Moreover, it discusses not only intuitively-obvious topics related to health, but also such things as emotional health, light therapy, antibacterial soap, giving advice to others, snoring, the onset of puberty, lactose intolerance, longevity, insomnia, health-wise computer use, various alternative therapies, etc. There is varied discussion of conventional treatments. For instance, Luvox (Fluvoxamine) usually helps compulsive gamblers. The Water Pik is said to be the best adjunct to regular and prolonged tooth brushing. Every topic in this book has its own author. Onetime Air Force doctor Kenneth Cooper, who wrote AEROBICS in 1968, now advocates non-strenuous exercise, although he himself maintains a running regimen (reminiscent of his earlier "Cooper's Poopers"). He says that a 30-minute brisk walk, done 5 times a week, constitutes sufficient exercise for the adult (pp. 375-376). Otherwise, more is not better. Excessive exercise risks injuries. Don't assume that all supplements are useful. To test the ability of vitamins to dissolve in the intestine, one should do the vinegar-dissolution test (pp. 536--537). If a vitamin pill doesn't dissolve in vinegar heated to 100 F within 45 minutes, it won't dissolve inside you. However, proof of dissolution may not necessarily be proof of absorption in the intestine, nor of bioavailability at the cellular level.