Don't Get Duped A Consumer's Guide to Health and Fitness

Name: Don't Get Duped A Consumer's Guide to Health and Fitness
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ISBN: 9781573929226

ISBN-10: 1573929220

ISBN-13: 9781573929226

Edition: 2002

Authors: Larry M. Forness

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The information in this book could save you money, frustration, embarrassment, and disappointment. It could even save your life! People annually spend billions of pounds Chr(45) needlessly -- on vitamins, minerals, herbal concoctions, ergogenic aids, fitness equipment and apparel, and alternative health-care treatments. Dr Larry M. Forness provides the critical tools to help you evaluate the many health-care and fitness services and products available today. Using actual ads as examples, Forness presents the best ways to keep from ever being duped again by an industry that is rife with deception and ignorance, and also includes specific tips from industry "insiders". The ultimate goal is to…

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List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Publishers
Publication date: 12/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 358
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.990



Acknowledgments


Disclaimer


Introduction



How and Why You Get Duped: The Head Game



The Scientific Method: How to Prove What Is the Truth



How You Can Measure the Claims and the Results: The Quantitative versus the Qualitative



Vitamins: The Good, the Bad, and the Expensive



Minerals: Women Are at Risk Here



Ergogenic Supplements: A Lucrative New Class of Potential Killers



Herbal Supplements: Can You Handle the Truth?



Fitness Equipment: Helpful, Harmful, or Hype?



Apparel: Is It Just for Show?



"Professional" Advice: Who You Can and Who You Can't Trust



Licensed, Registered, and Certified: Politics, Puffery, or Professional?



Special Chapter: Weight Loss: Can't Anybody Spell "P-e-r-m-a-n-e-n-t"?



Special Chapter: Aging: What It Is; How to Slow It Down; How to Reverse It; and How to Measure the Change



The Checklists: Follow These and You Won't Get Duped



Women's Biomarkers of Aging Score Sheets



Men's Biomarkers of Aging Score Sheets


Glossary


Bibliography


Index


About the Author