Statins are widely prescribed to lower blood cholesterol levels and claim to offer unparalleled protection against heart disease. Once believed to be completely safe they are the most profitable drug in the history of medicine. In this groundbreaking book, GP Malcolm Kendrick exposes the truth behind the hype, to change the way we think about cholesterol forever. Debunking old assumptions on what constitutes a healthy lifestyle and diet, dispelling the ‘diet-heart’ or ‘cholesterol hypothesis’ that a high-fat diet causes high cholesterol which causes heart disease, The Great Cholesterol Con is a highly readable case against statins and for a more common-sense approach to heart disease and general wellbeing. Read the truth about what really causes heart disease and how to avoid it. 286pp, 128mm x 198mm, illus. in b&w, softback, 2008
In 500 Health & Nutrition Questions Answered, Patrick Holford answers 500 of the most frequent questions, explaining how to deal nutritionally with everything from common colds to more serious medical conditions.
What you eat plays a key role in controlling and preventing high blood pressure, also closely linked to the West's number one killer, heart disease. This accessible guide, written by respected media doctor Sarah Brewer and culinary expert Michelle Be
The Great American Detox Diet by Alex Jamieson is the vegan detox programme that undid the damage Morgan Spurlock, star of Super Size Me, did to his body in a month of eating nothing but McDonald's.
Antony Haynes' The Insulin Factor offers a nutritional plan to reverse insulin resistance or Syndrome X, behind many health problems including heart disease, obesity, high blood pressure and cholesterol, DVT and PCOS.
If you're looking to lose weight, prevent disease or reclaim your health, the pH balance between acids and alkalines in your body is critical, says Dr Young, so much so, that if you restore this pH balance... [more]
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