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""Help me, Dr. Dean! I want to be healthy, but I just don't know where to turn for advice.""
No wonder. How often have you felt whipsawed by the experts, confused by conflicting advice, or torn with guilt over what you eat, drink, think? Prepare yourself for a shock: You can relax, enjoy life, and still be healthy.
Renowned for candid straight talk on radio and television, Dr. Dean Edell applies his unique common-sense perspective to America's growing obsession with health. Frank and iconoclastic, Dr. Edell walks readers through a lifetime of experience from deep inside the twin worlds of media and medicine. As one of the first media doctors, he knows better than anyone the dangers of distorted medical reporting. With colorful detail, he shows how medical consumers are made neurotic at a time when people are healthier than ever before. Dr. Edell sorts through the morass of research, distinguishing fact from panic-inducing fiction. With trademark humor, grace, and style, he shares with us the essential reassuring facts about our health: you can be fatter than you think; too much exercise might kill you; and yes, sex will add years to your life!
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"I learned more in this book than what I could learn from about 50 million medical journals and textbooks, stuff that helps you make good health decisions for yourself. I think everyone should read this book, so much good stuff to be able to apply! "
— Kimberly (5 out of 5 stars)
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“[Edell’s] engaging style and common sense make this an excellent overview of the keys to healthy living…He covers an impressive number of bases, including nutrition, fitness, food safety, drugs, alternative medicine, even the quest for happiness. Edell backs up his recommendations with university studies and his personal experiences as a physician…The result is a book that is both authoritative and user-friendly, mixed with a good dose of humor…In the end, Edell may not prove all the health experts wrong, but he does deliver what he promises in his introduction: ‘common sense choices and options…always based on science.’”
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“Whether you buy one health book a year or dozens, this book may well zoom to the top of your list. Fans of America’s favorite radio doctor will delight in picking up the latest health facts delivered in Edell’s typically irreverent and witty style. Go to the head of the class or become the hit of the party when you retell Dr. Dean Edell’s stories of inaccurate media frenzies or dispense facts that challenge society’s assumptions about overweight people, or even, gulp, the value of exercise for longevity. You’ll also learn Edell’s story of his journey from disillusioned medical student to hippie dropout to respected and entertaining media MD.”
— Amazon.com, editorial review
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" I learned more in this book than what I could learn from about 50 million medical journals and textbooks, stuff that helps you make good health decisions for yourself. I think everyone should read this book, so much good stuff to be able to apply! "
— Kimberly, 1/16/2013 -
" From my journal in 1999:<br/>All current confusion about nutrition and health can be reduced to this: <br/>Eat whatever you want, just eat less of it and add some veggies. "
— Esmee, 2/28/2011
About Dean Edell
Dean Edell, MD, probably has the largest medical practice in the United States—his hugely popular radio and television broadcasts are heard by more than ten million fans every week. A graduate of Cornell University Medical College and the author of the national bestseller Eat, Drink, and Be Merry, he lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.