Don't Swallow Your Gum!: Myths, Half-Truths, and Outright Lies About Your Body and Health
Selected Book Details
- Paperback
- Edition: 1
- Author: Aaron Carroll MD, Rachel Vreeman MD, Drs Carroll & Vreeman
- Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
- Release Date: May 2009
- ISBN-10: 031253387X
- ISBN-13: 9780312533878
- List Price: $13.95
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryThe truth behind all those weird and worrisome things you think about your body---EXPOSED! Face it---you have more access to medical information than ever before, and yet you still believe “facts” about your body and health that are just plain wrong. Don’t Swallow Your Gum! takes on these myths and misconceptions and exposes them for what they are. Inside these pages, the following myths (and many more!) are dispelled: You need to drink eight glasses of water a day |
Customer Reviews
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Great transaction
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Thank you for the book, it was right on time and in the condition promised! Nice work!
Fun and interesting info
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I love this book! It's extremely easy reading and the information is quite surprising in some cases. The authors are very witty covering some of the lighter topics and very compassionate on the more serious topics. One of the most irritating things I find about some people is how they truly live by some silly "old wives tales" and this book totally busts those myths. Now I can tell those people, especially my mother, to read the book and get a clue!! The facts are meticulously supported by extensive research and are noted so in the back of the book. Highly recommended!!!
Lacks Sufficient Narration
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I enjoyed this book, but it was not what I expected or generally like in books like these. The chapters are extremely short and lack a lengthy support for each "myth". Granted, the authors give their references in the back so if you wanted to you could read the articles, but I didn't buy a list of references, I bought a book to narrate those references!
A bit more storytelling could have been implemented to make the reading more interesting and engaging. But what the authors did have was not too bad. If you're bored it might be worth checking out.
Don't Swallow your Gum Review
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A quick, mildly informative read for those curious about cultural concepts related to our physical body. A debunking, to some extent, of conventional medical wisdom. Helpful, but not exactly earth-shaking. A few of the topics covered could have used further documentation. Overall, it constitutes a good starting point to answer a number of our more common questions.
AWESOME BOOK- DEFINITLY RECOMMEND!!!!
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My best friend just bought me this book to prove that the things I constantly complain about are just not true!! Once I started reading, I could not put the book down. It is easy to read, not too technical, very well researched and best of all, funny!!
I recently heard that the book was featured in USA Today and that the authors appeared on Good Morning America. If anyone has those links, please reply to this review.
Great book, I highly recommend it!
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