Product Description

Take Charge of Your Own HealthFrom 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:

Antioxidants • Bach Flower Remedies • BiomagnetismColon Detoxification • Electrodiagnosis • Fish Oils • HomeopathyKinesiology • Live Cell Therapy • MacrobioticsOrthomolecular Medicine • Ozone Therapy • Vitamin C Infusion• And much moreWhat 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.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #485769 in Books
• Published on: 1990-10-24
• Released on: 1990-10-24
• Original language: English
• 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.

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Customer Reviews

alternative medicine
I thought this was a great book to start with on today's alternative medicine. I have noticed that western medicine is restricted to drugs and surgery because that is what makes the most money. I can see why western doctors would be angry with Jane's book because she questions what is going on with western medicine. If you want to hear something more frightening, listen to the tape "Dead doctors don't lie" by Joel Wallach. Jane may have some mistakes in her book, but my observations as a layman lead me to believe that she is right-on because where western doctors have failed to help my family, holistic healers (naturopaths etc) have triumphed. Especially her chapter about cholesterol. I have found in more and more corners where what she is saying is exactly right - the whole issue is bunk

This is an excellent book
I'm quite perturbed by the negative reviews of what I consider a wonderful book. These reviews seem full of hate and vituperation. They also distort Heimlich's views and are, in my opinion, strongly and strangely biased.

The chapter on chelation, in particular, has saved a good friend of mine from extensive surgery which had been scheduled, but was then cancelled because chelation brought about an increase in circulation which baffled the doctors.

I seriously wonder if these reviewers have actually read this book. It is written in a delightful, often humorous way that makes its points easily and well.

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.