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Author: Paul A. Offit M.D.
ISBN : B009NG3A2M
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In Do You Believe in Magic?, medical expert Paul A. Offit, M.D., offers a scathing exposé of the alternative medicine industry, revealing how even though some popular therapies are remarkably helpful due to the placebo response, many of them are ineffective, expensive, and even deadly.
Dr. Offit reveals how alternative medicine—an unregulated industry under no legal obligation to prove its claims or admit its risks—can actually be harmful to our health.
Using dramatic real-life stories, Offit separates the sense from the nonsense, showing why any therapy—alternative or traditional—should be scrutinized. He also shows how some nontraditional methods can do a great deal of good, in some cases exceeding therapies offered by conventional practitioners.
An outspoken advocate for science-based health advocacy who is not afraid to take on media celebrities who promote alternative practices, Dr. Offit advises, “There’s no such thing as alternative medicine. There’s only medicine that works and medicine that doesn’t.”
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- Print Length: 341 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0062222961
- Publisher: Harper; 1 edition (June 18, 2013)
- Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
- Language: English
- ASIN: B009NG3A2M
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Free Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine
Before reading this book, I had read some articles condemning the author and the book, so I expected the worst. Of course, those who condemned this book were involved in the alternative medicine business, so could hardly be expected to be objective.On the other hand, I use a lot of nutritional supplements myself, and have been writing about nutrition and exercise for over 30 years. I was pleasantly surprised in reading this book to find that, contrary to expectations, the author was not out to blindly attack alternative medicine. In fact, the book is well researched, and the author's conclusions make a lot of sense. I agree about the importance of scientific, or "evidence-based medicine" in determining the ultimate value of any particular therapy, supplement, or treatment.The best parts of the book to me were those in which Dr.Offit exposes the greedy charlatans who take advantage of the desperation of people who seek out the way cures when conventional medicine cannot help them.But as Offit correctly points out, none of these modern day snake oil salesman can relieve their pain, either, although they will empty their bank accounts.I also like the way Offit exposes their frequent attacks on the money-hungry medical/drug company establishment, while conveniently not mentioning how they are getting rich off the money of trusting suckers.I would have given the book a 5-star rating save for one major fault. His chapter on vitamins was the weakest and most inaccurate portion of the book. Offit only suggests using four types of nutritional supplements: fish oil, vitamin D, calcium, and folic acid. The amount of vitamin D he suggests is fine for helping to build bone mass, but doesn't come close to the amount of vitamin D shown to have other preventive effects.