Product Description

Take Charge of Your Own Health

From hypertension to hardening of the arteries, cancer to cataracts, Heimlich's authoritative guide surveys the latest nonconventional medical treatments for today's most prevalent diseases. What Your Doctor Won't Tell You is an objective, up-to-the minute sourcebook on the most significant alternative approaches to health, including:

What Your Doctor Wont Tell You introduces you to a new world of medical doctors trained in nutrition and preventive medicine. Heimlich offers objective appraisals of dozens of mainstream medical treatments, from chemotherapy to bypass surgery, and describes why the medical establishment continues to rely on toxic drugs and ineffective treatments owing to its ties with big business and government.

Covering both time-honored and cutting-edge procedures, What Your Doctor Won't Tell You is an in-depth overview of the best that alternative medicine has to offer.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #134251 in Books
• Published on: 1990-10-24
• Released on: 1990-10-24
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Consumers could certainly use a solid journalistic examination of "alternative" medical therapies and their advocates. Heimlich's, unfortunately, is not that book. While justifiably deploring overmedication and unnecessary surgery, Heimlich ( Homeopathic Medicine at Home ) accepts uncritically many suggestions, so long as they do not emanate from the "establishment." The result is a melange of solid good sense (stop smoking to prevent heart disease), interesting potential (acupuncture as a treatment for sundry ailments; the mind-body connection) and much that is highly dubious and potentially dangerous, including discredited south-of-the-border cancer therapies, floral extracts, magnets and "psychic diagnosis." Typical of the author's gullibility is her failure to impute other than altruistic motives to her sources; she accepts, with no apparent awareness of conflict of interest, an "expert" opinion on vitamin megadoses from a manufacturer of such products. Her book will bolster the convictions of believers; its anecdotes, testimonials and naivete will rightly reinforce the doubts of skeptics. Heimlich is married to Henry Heimlich, the physician who devised the lifesaving Heimlich Maneuver.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal
Like Andrew Weil's Natural Health, Natural Medicine: A Comprehensive Manual for Wellness and Self-Care ( LJ 5/1/90), this well-written book challenges orthodox medicine's preference for surgery and drugs. A journalist and wife of the physician who developed the Heimlich maneuver, the author focuses on the most prevalent diseases with an authoritative review of mainstream medical treatments. Presenting well-documented scientific evidence from medical journals, Heimlich provides an in-depth view of the most significant alternative therapies, such as macrobiotics and chelation. Among a plethora of literature with a similar message, this is a good choice for consumer collections with few books on the subject.
- Marilyn Rosenthal, Nassau Community Coll. Lib., Garden City, N.Y.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Jane Heimlich has written a weekly health column for the Cincinnati Enquirer and is coauthor of the widely acclaimed Homeopathic Medicine at Home. She lives in Cincinnati with her husband, Dr. Henry Heimlich, inventor of the Heimlich Maneuver.

Customer Reviews

Not such a great book
Don't bother with this book as there is nothing much to be found new here.
Anyone who likes to read this type of book will be disappointed.

Not The Latest or The Best
At least Ms. Heimlich tries to get to the real truth about alternative medicine, unlike Trodeau who only wants to make money by exploiting fear. Further study into the mind, body, spirit connection would make this a better read. Forget The Cures, Find The Cause would be a geat companion to this.

Interesting but all over the place
Some of the information was new and interesting, but I found the book to be very non-specific. In other words, it would be very hard to create your own health plan based on information from this book.