Staying Alive After 35! The Bare Essentials

by McClelland, Tony

• ISBN13: 9781903378274
• ISBN10: 1903378273
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: TFM PUBLISHING

Summary

This remarkable book is long overdue. It provides the insights essential for the lay reader to take personal control of their long-term health, and physical and emotional well-being. It empowers and educates the non-doctor like no book before it. The complexities and limitations of both modern medicine and alternative therapies, are explained in a way that is entertaining and easy to understand. More importantly however, the book provides access to state-of-the-art advice, not only for effective diet and weight control, but also for side-stepping Syndrome X and the other common serious illnesses, that confront all of us in the new millennium. Using a patient-centred and evidence-based approach, it reflects the dramatic changes in the way medical care will be delivered in the future i.e. as an equal and mutually respectful partnership between well-informed patient and hopefully, well-informed doctor. Although written to provide the perfect medical advice manual for the lay public, the book is an excellent source of current medical knowledge, relating to the common diseases, and provokes and challenges in such a way, that it is likely to be widely read by the profession at large.

Author Biography

Tony McClelland is currently Critical Head of Medicine and a Director of Clinician Training at Middlemore Hospital in Auckland.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vi
Medical disclaimer	p. vii
Introduction: At last, at last, some semblance of the truth at last	p. 1
Alternative therapy, medical science and all that jazz	p. 13
The truth about diet and health	p. 23
Metabolism gone mad	p. 26
Basic dietary principles	p. 31
Real diets for real people	p. 41
Bye-bye high blood fats	p. 54
High blood pressure - hypertension	p. 58
Aspirin	p. 66
Can I offer you a light?	p. 70
Whaddya mean you forgot to take a drink last night?	p. 75
Diabetes mellitus	p. 79
Other issues related to cardiovascular risk	p. 82
Depression - fighting the black suffocation	p. 85
Alzheimer's and other brain robbers	p. 97
The dreadful truth about statistics	p. 103
Hormone replacement therapy or not?	p. 110
Screening for cancer of the breast	p. 113
Women's other bits: Screening for gynaecological malignancies	p. 117
What to do about prostate cancer screening and management	p. 122
Colorectal cancer screening and other gut bits	p. 128
Osteoporosis or why are you softening me up like this?	p. 132
Handguns and rifles in the home: Their role in preventing commanche raids	p. 134
Road traffic deaths - 26 million can't be wrong	p. 142
Does viagra cure depression?	p. 144
Malignant melanoma et al	p. 147
Infections	p. 149
Spiritual belief	p. 153
Doc why am I not on ...?	p. 155
Potentially serious warning symptoms	p. 157
Touching on the other delights of the metabolic syndrome	p. 159
Life partners to avoid	p. 163
Glossary	p. 164
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