Overdosed America or Que Comeria Jesus

Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine

Author: John Abramson

Using the examples of Vioxx, Celebrex, cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, and anti-depressants, Overdo$ed America shows that at the heart of the current crisis in American medicine lies the commercialization of medical knowledge itself.

Drawing on his background in statistics, epidemiology, and health policy, John Abramson, M.D., an award-winning family doctor on the clinical faculty at Harvard Medical School, reveals the ways in which the drug companies have misrepresented statistical evidence, misled doctors, and compromised our health. The good news is that the best scientific evidence shows that reclaiming responsibility for your own health is often far more effective than taking the latest blockbuster drug.

You -- and your doctor -- will be stunned by this unflinching exposé of American medicine.

Publishers Weekly

According to Abramson, Americans are overmedicated and overmedicalized as a result of the commercialization of health care. Falling prey to marketing campaigns, we demand unnecessary and expensive drugs and procedures, believing they constitute the best possible medical care. Wrong, says Abramson: though more post-heart attack procedures are performed in the U.S. than in Canada, one-year survival rates are the same. Similarly, notes Abramson, a former family practitioner who teaches at Harvard Medical School, we spend more on high-tech neonatology than other Western countries but have a higher infant-mortality rate because of inattention to low-tech prenatal care. Abramson deconstructs the scientific sleight of hand in presenting clinical trial results that leads to the routine prescription of pricey cholesterol-lowering drugs even when their effectiveness has not been proven; he examines what he calls "supply-sensitive medical services"-the near-automatic use of medical technologies, such as cardiac catheterization, less because they are needed than because they are available. Abramson's bottom line: "More care doesn't necessarily mean better care." Arguing firmly that doctors should focus more on lifestyle changes to improve health, Abramson seems less credible when he writes off depression as "exercise-deficiency disease" and disposes of cancer in little more than a page. Still, he makes a powerful and coherent case that American medicine has gone badly astray and needs a new paradigm-one untainted by profits. Agent, Kris Dahl. (Oct.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

With healthcare based on research sponsored mainly by self-interested drug companies, we're all in trouble, argues family practitioner Abramson. With a three-city author tour. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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Que Comeria Jesus

Author: Don Colbert

El mercado cristiano esta inundado de programas de dieta y ejercicios que dicen ser la forma de vivir y comer "como Dios manda" para tener salud. Si bien algunos estan basados en principios biblicos, y algunos han demostrado ser efectivos para perder peso, ni uno solo nos dice lo que haria Jesus, y mucho menos lo que comeria Jesus. En cambio, este amplio plan de comida examina la Biblia y revela lo que sabemos que Jesus comia y lo que por logica podemos comenzar con confianza. Valiendose de las investigaciones medicas, ?Que comeria Jesus? nos ensena y demuestra porque la dieta de Jesus es ideal tambien para el siglo 21.

Table of Contents:

	Introduccion: Que comeria Jesus?	vii
1	Cuestione seriamente lo que come	1
2	Alimentos que comia Jesus mas a menudo	17
3	Un ingrediente basico en la dieta de Jesus	33
4	Las carnes que Jesus comia	45
5	Otras formas de proteina que Jesus comia	69
6	Las verduras que comia Jesus	79
7	Las grasas que Jesus comia	105
8	Bebidas que Jesus tomaba	117
9	Que comeria Jesus como postre?	139
10	Hacia ejercicio Jesus?	159
11	Como utilizar los alimentos que Jesus comia para perder peso	173
12	El estilo de salud mediterraneo	187
13	Plan diario de alimentacion y menus para una semana	199
	Bibliografia	213
	Acerca del autor	217
	Notas	219