Consumer Health: A Guide to Intelligent Decisions with PowerWeb: Health and Human Performance (Paperback)

~ (Author), William T. Jarvis (Author), Manfred Kroger (Author), William M. London (Author)

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Product Description

The most comprehensive text in Consumer Health, this edition continues to provide a vast amount of information to enable consumers to choose health products and services intelligently. New texts now come packaged with Health and Human Performance PowerWeb!

About the Author

Board Chairman, Quackwatch, Inc. NCAHF Vice President and Director of Internet Operations.

Product Details

• Paperback: 624 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; 7 edition (June 13, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072485213
• ISBN-13: 978-0072485219
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,036,077 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars BEWARE:Textbook contains dated information, May 22, 2005

By	Patricia L. McDiarmid (Wilbraham, Massachusetts United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have been using this textbook for four semesters with undergraduates obtaining a minor in health education and am frustrated with the information that is outdated and full of errors. I will no longer be using the text in my courses. The food pyramid is wrong, exercise theories are incorrect, etc. My exercise science majors this past semester were disgusted with the mistakes.

Pat
Assistant Professor Health Education
Massachusetts Private College

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Save your money and health, August 29, 2009

By	Paulo Buchsbaum "pop-rock lover" (Rio, Brazil) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Consumer Health: A Guide To Intelligent Decisions (Paperback)

This book is a libel against the alternative medicine and similar. It worth each penny. Strongly research based. Believes who wants to believe. It could be a little more concise.

3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Textbook or Polemic?, December 1, 2008

By	Andrew W. Saul (Rochester, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Consumer Health: A Guide To Intelligent Decisions (Paperback)

When I taught health science for the State University of New York, I "inherited" the use of this textbook from the previous instructor's syllabus. It is a strikingly poor textbook. My students (mostly college sophomores and juniors, without a heavy-duty scientific background) rapidly detected what they saw as the book's paternal attitude, its anti-vitamin bias, and its factual errors as easily as I could. Fortunately, there are many other good consumer health and nutrition texts out there. In my opinion, just about any one of them is several steps up from "Consumer Health: A Guide To Intelligent Decisions." Instructors, before you order this on for your class, preview a copy carefully and see for yourself. As for me, yes, I still have my copy on hand . . . to use to demonstrate just how unscientific and politicized a textbook can actually be. Most students are considerably smarter than this book's authors seem to think they are. And thank heaven for that.