Your Health at Risk - Softcover

Jeffreys, Toni

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0722539258 ISBN 13: 9780722539255

Publisher: Thorsons, 1999

Synopsis

A guide to what doctors and the government are not telling you about major hazards to your health!

Unputdownable book, the result of 20 years of research, about the health risks that face us every day. Covers the key topical issues:
• Genetically engineered foods – did you know people had already died from eating them?
• dental fillings – mercury in amalgam fillings is toxic and dangerous to your health
• cholesterol – a low-cholesterol diet can in fact kill you?
• cot death – that this has a significant link to an infant vaccine

Other issues covered include:

Inside Out – cholesterol, margarine, homogenised milk, aspirin, sugar, junk food, nicotine, MSG, genetically engineered food and salt.

Out there – Air pollution, water quality, fluoride, plastic, unleaded petrol, electromagnetic fields, mobile phones, pesticides and golf.

Medical risks – heart surgery, mercury amalgam fillings, root canals, immunisation, mental health, prozac, prescription drugs, mammograms, bras, cancer, antiobiotics and AIDS.

About this title

About the Author

Toni Jeffreys Ph.D. is a medical researcher. She founded the Australian and New Zealand ME Society. This is the result of 20 years of research into orthodox and complementary medical literature.

From the Back Cover

QUESTIONS YOU NEED ANSWERS TO…

DID YOU KNOW?

• GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOOD: that people have already died as a result of eating it?
• CHOLESTEROL: that a low cholesterol, low-fat diet may well kill you?
• VACCINATIONS: that research has linked the infant DTP vaccine with 66% of cot deaths?
• FLOURIDE: that fluoride toothpaste now carries a health warning in the USA?
• MARGARINE: that hydrogenated fats are banned from sale in several European countries?
• MERCURY FILLINGS: that amalgam fillings in your teeth can poison your body over time?
• ASPIRIN: that it will not lower your risk of heart attack?
• ANTIBIOTICS: that a deadly new antibiotic-resistant bacteria is claiming up to 3 patients a day in our hospitals?

''A drug is a substance that, when injected into a rat, produces a scientific paper.''

An important and gripping book, meticulously researched by Toni Jeffreys, a health journalist living in New Zealand. 'Your Health at Risk' represents 20 years of knowledge acquired in the course of studying health literature: orthodox medical, unorthodox medical, natural and traditional. In 1980, Jeffreys founded the Australian and New Zealand Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) Society.

Edition details

• Publisher: Thorsons
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0722539258
• ISBN 13: 9780722539255
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384