The healthy skeptic : cutting through the hype about your health / Robert J. Davis.

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008], ©2008.

243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-230) and index.

Introduction : health sellers -- Says who? how we know what (we think) we know -- The news media : eat this! -- Diet books : don't eat that! -- Advertisements : take a supplement! -- Government campaigns : watch your cholesterol! -- Celebrities : get tested! -- Health groups : wear sunscreen! -- Consumer activists : beware of chemicals! -- Anti-aging doctors : don't get sick, don't get old, don't die! -- Guaranteed! over-promising on prevention.