The Disease Delusion

Author: Dr. Jeffrey S. Bland
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062290754
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 399

Book Description
For decades, Dr. Jeffrey Bland has been on the cutting edge of Functional Medicine, which seeks to pinpoint and prevent the cause of illness, rather than treat its symptoms. Managing chronic diseases accounts for three quarters of our total healthcare costs, because we’re masking these illnesses with pills and temporary treatments, rather than addressing their underlying causes, he argues. Worse, only treating symptoms leads us down the path of further illness. In The Disease Delusion, Dr. Bland explains what Functional Medicine is and what it can do for you. While advances in modern science have nearly doubled our lifespans in only four generations, our quality of life has not reached its full potential. Outlining the reasons why we suffer chronic diseases from asthma and diabetes to obesity, arthritis and cancer to a host of other ailments, Dr. Bland offers achievable, science-based solutions that can alleviate these common conditions and offers a roadmap for a lifetime of wellness.

Genetic Nutritioneering

Author: Jeffrey S. Bland
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 9780879839215
Category : Chronic diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
The Human Genome Project is producing a revolution in health, raising the prospect of averting hereditary diseases by re-programming our genes. Having identified genes linked to diseases such as cancer, diabetes and arthritis, researchers have shown that unfavourable genetic messages can be improved by changes in lifestyle, diet and environment. This book uses detailed questionnaires to help you to read your own genetic characteristics and to construct a comprehensive nutritional programme tailored to your own needs.

Seductive Delusions

Author: Jill Grimes
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421419246
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
Sexually active young people urgently need this book. A 2009 Book of the Year, USA Book News “It can’t happen to me.” Many high school students and young adults, seduced by their sense of invincibility, are stunned when they are diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection (STI). But the fact is that anyone can catch an STI: no age group, social class, economic class, culture, religion, gender, or ethnic group is immune. To drive home the risks and realities of unprotected sex, Dr. Jill Grimes shares real-life stories of young people—medical students, college freshmen, teenagers, young parents, talented entrepreneurs—who have gotten an STI. Dr. Grimes narrates the story of Liz, who got syphilis; Sofia, diagnosed with gonorrhea and chlamydia; and Zoe, with pubic lice. She describes how Justin got herpes, Sean got trichomoniasis, and Luke contracted hepatitis C. The accounts of these young men and women and their exam-room conversations with their doctors evoke both the physical symptoms and complicated emotional reactions that often go together with infection. Fact sheets throughout the book explain each sexually transmitted infection and answer frequently asked questions about symptoms, treatment, and prevention. Used in high schools for the past five years, this new edition of Seductive Delusions shows how technological advances have speeded doctor-patient communication, including test results and treatment recommendations. It explains simplified STI testing, explores the frighteningly high incidence of date sexual assault, examines dramatic changes in cervical cancer prevention and Pap tests, and clarifies why HPV vaccines are now routinely recommended for all children—boys and girls. Whether reading the book from cover to cover or jumping directly to a specific disease, readers will relate to the dramatic stories while learning medically reliable information. Making emotionally and physically safe decisions about sex is easier when you know how STIs are spread, how to avoid getting one, what their symptoms are, and how they are diagnosed and treated.

The Cholesterol Delusion

Author: Ernest N. Curtis
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1608447480
Category : Cholesterol
Languages : en
Pages : 170

Book Description
Approximately one-half of the adult population of the United States are being told that they harbor within their bodies a silent killer. This "killer" is cholesterol. Millions are prescribed cholesterol lowering drugs making these pills the most prescribed (and most profitable) medications in the history of American medicine. They are told that these drugs will protect them from the ravages of heart disease. This is patently untrue and can be easily demonstrated by critical analysis of the data presented in the very medical studies that purport to show their benefit. The cholesterol mania that has gripped the country and dominated mainstream medical thought for the past 40 years is based on widespread acceptance of a set of closely related theories variously called the Cholesterol Theory, the Lipid Hypothesis, or the Diet-Heart Theory. The Cholesterol Delusion systematically refutes these prevailing theories that link diet and blood cholesterol levels to coronary heart disease and heart attacks. The Cholesterol Delusion traces the development of these theories from their origins and shows that each step in their evolution was based on faulty evidence and unscientific reasoning. The book then takes it one step further and attacks the very foundation of the "risk factor" paradigm that has dominated cardiovascular research in particular and much of medical research in general for the past 50 years. Written in plain language for the intelligent layman, the arguments are presented in a way that can be easily understood by readers with a limited medical or technical background. The Cholesterol Delusion is must reading for anyone that has been told they have elevated cholesterol levels and/or must take medication to lower them.

Suspicious Minds

Author: Joel Gold
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 143918156X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
"The Truman Show delusion and other strange beliefs"--Cover.

The Free Will Delusion

Author: James B. Miles
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784628328
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
Poverty is not accident, but design. We are not all equal before the law. And the central message of contemporary ethics is that only some people matter.

Schizophrenia

Author: Mary Boyle
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317797833
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
First published in 2002. Schizophrenia: A Scientific Delusion?, first published in 1990, made a very significant contribution to the debates on the concepts of schizophrenia and mental illness. These concepts remain both influential and controversial and this new updated second edition provides an incisive critical analysis of the debates over the last decade. As well as providing updated versions of the historical and scientific arguments against the concept of schizophrenia which formed the basis of the first edition, Boyle covers significant new material relevant to today’s debates.

Delusional Entitlement Disorder

Author: Lpc E a Shockney, PhD
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440188874
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description
Whatever happened to the grit of American work ethic, the display of manners, stewardship for our neighbors and respect for others? It is vanishing at an unconscionable rate and leaving behind an ever-growing population of people who place self-centeredness, greed, and a perception of entitlement all wrapped up together in a toxic mass that is strangling the spirit of America. Delusional Entitlement Disorder explores stories that reflect its damage, accounts of those who have avoided such a malignant attitude and offers advice as to how to avoid the growth of such a phenomenon within the family, community and nation.

Just Be Well

Author: Thomas A. Sult
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781939418388
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
The practice of functional medicine is a discipline that treats people, not diseases. Dr. Sult looks at the eight key physiological processes of the functional medicine matrix, and brings together accessible information, patient stories, and sound advice that can lead you back to wellness and health.

Schizophrenia

Author: Mary Boyle
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415227179
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 60

Book Description
When first published, this book made a very significant contribution to the debates on the concepts of schizophrenia and mental illness. This new edition provides an incisive critical analysis of the debates over the last decade.