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The End of Illness
Hardcover, 335 pages, Simon & Schuster, List Price: $26 | purchase
NPR Summary
Dr. David B. Agus — one of the nation's leading authorities on cancer treatment — addresses modern misconceptions about illness and wellness. Agus makes some surprising claims, asserting that a sedentary lifestyle can be worse than smoking, that vitamin supplements may do more harm than help and that poorly designed footwear factors into the development of heart disease.
Awards and Recognition
9 weeks on NPR Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller List
Genres:
This book is about:
- MEDICAL / Holistic Medicine,
- MEDICAL / Healing,
- MEDICAL / General,
- Causes and theories of causation,
- Diseases,
- Health
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