Like many who have read this book, I saw Dr. Agus when he appeared on The Daily Show and thought he made a lot of excellent points about health and the need for preventive health care - the interview convinced me to buy this book. While there were a few chapters or portions of chapters here that...
terse, definitive, do-this, don't-do-that health advice, most of it quite well-known [alcohol in moderation, don't get sunburned, do eat vegetables, exercise, get your sleep, ......). He's way wrong about running being "abusive to your knees and joints" and unsuited to middle-aged people [non-ru...
Too many words wasted to say things that can be said with few. Even after all those wasted words, the book does not offer much clarity on anything really. Vitamins, statins and aspirin take up a lot of space in the book. Dr Agus favours the last two. Certainly the title is too strong for what the...
was an unnerving, chilling segment to produce, to say the least; it seemed so realistic and doomsdayish at the time. But no less than a month later, I was back on the morning news again, this time applauding a group of Northeastern University researchers who’d found a new method to extract bacter...