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In The Cure for Everything! health-law expert Timothy Caulfield exposes the special interests that twist good science about health and fitness to sell us services and products that mostly don’t work.
Want great abs? You won’t get them by using the latest Ab-Flex-Spinner-Thingy. Are you trying to lose ten pounds? Diet books are a waste of trees. Do you rely on healthcare practitioners—either mainstream or alternative—to provide the cure for what ails you? Then beware! Both Big Pharma and naturopathy are powerful twisting forces with products and services to sell.
Caulfield doesn’t just talk the talk. He signs up for circuit training with a
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Timothy Caulfield has been Research Director of the Health Law Institute at the
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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Health Reality Check,
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Caulfield strips away all of the hype and promotion around fitness, diet and genetics to give the reader a few key messages about what we can really do to be more healthy. He wades through the science and talks to the experts to tease out a few central truths that can be supported by clear evidence. While he is hard on alternative medicine he is equally critical of many aspects of modern healthcare, especially the role of the pharmaceutical industry. Caulfield weaves in his personal journey through his research which lightens the message and provides a few laughs. Beware - if you justify your eating habits by exercising you might not want to read the sections on exercise and diet.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Be Prepared!,
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There are a few pearls in Timothy Caulfield's "A Cure for Everything" but it is a slog through some very narcissistic ramblings to weed them out. The chapters on Fitness and Diet are very good and insightful, but the Remedies and Magic chapters less so and more of a rant againts big Pharma and Naturopathic remedies. Not that they both don't deserve some nocks but this is a little over the top.As for his narcissistic style, it becomes painful fromt he start. He is as interested in telling stories of his personal travels aaround the work and how important he is as a lecturer as he is teaching us about the premise of the book. He even manages to work in details about a cruies he and his family went on.....please. He writes a book supposedly based on science and then makes a foolish statement about his wife, who is a GP, being one of the best doctors in Canada and perhaps the world. Now where is the science in that self gratifying statement ? And how the last paragraph got past the editor is beyond me, describing how much he enjoyed his son's birthday party, what does that have to do with the premise of the book? It seems as if he could not decide whether to write an autobiography or a book on the ailments and their scientific cures or myths so just combined the two. As stated, there are some areas of interest but be prepared to hear all about Timothy Caulfield along the way!
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4.7 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews) 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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A brutal, yet empowering weak-up call,
By F. Dumaine "François D." - Published on Amazon.com
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In this publication, Timothy Caulfield offers a stunning contribution to public health. The book sheds light on so many realities surrounding health and fitness that you are left wondering how anyone could afford not to read it. Just like watching pro golfers, his untangling of facts and realities is done in a way that looks so effortless that you just know there is a tonne of experience and thinking behind all the findings he presents.Some may find the book rather depressing (everything gets a good beat-up, from stretching, to running, yoga, homeopathy, mainstream medicine, etc.), but in reality it is remarkably empowering. It allows people like myself to keep running, but to know exactly what to expect from it (and loosing weight is not one of these things). With this book, Caulfield won't make too many friends among the multi-billion dollar industry of health and fitness, but he can rest assured that those of us who are just trying to live a healthy life will be forever grateful that he found the courage to publish it. 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Excellent,
By Arthur Slade - Published on Amazon.com
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This book changed my life. Well, that may be an overstatement, but I've certainly changed both my exercise routine and my view of dieting and the health industry. Actually, it wasn't an overstatement...it has changed my life.
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Just the facts, mam,
By lightsurfer - Published on Amazon.com
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This bracing, fun, funny and informative book is a must read for those interested in managing their own health - rather than having it macro managed by corporate interests of every stripe.My few feelings of exasperation come when Caulfield points to sprint sports and football research for dunning the efficacy of stretching. Speaking sport specifically, it is without parallel in the equestrian pursuits, both for horse and rider. And his writeoff of homeopathy, mixed up with a discussion of the placebo effect, is thin. My sense is they haven't yet found a way to observe the subtle affects of homeopathy, either structurally in the substances themselves or their 'cures'. It works on animals - with chronic conditions - do I tell my dog she is getting her homeopathic incontinence drug? Or my horse that she is getting an anti-imflammatory? Just wondering what Caulfield would make of the vet profiled in a BEEB documentary in the UK who uses only homeopathic and has for years... Also, animals aside, placebo is a word for a process we don't understand yet, and deserves thorough study. It kind of points to the inadequacy of the scientific method. And reader beware: Don't look for anything new age or future forward in this book. I imagine energy medicine would make the very conservative Caulfield's head spin off... Still in all, loved the book. |
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