{"id":12215,"date":"2012-05-26T10:58:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T15:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=12215"},"modified":"2012-05-26T10:58:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T15:58:22","slug":"12215","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/26\/12215\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cure for Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Caulfield&#8217;s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0807022055\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0807022055\">The Cure For Everything: Untangling Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness, and Happiness<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0807022055\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, attempts to be a corrective in the area of personal heath (as in diet and exercise) management.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2012\/05\/CureForEverythingFullCover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2012\/05\/CureForEverythingFullCover.jpg?resize=250%2C403\" alt=\"\" title=\"CureForEverythingFullCover\" width=\"250\" height=\"403\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12217\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the publisher: &#8220;In The Cure for Everything, health-policy expert and fitness enthusiast Timothy Caulfield debunks the mythologies of the one-step health crazes, reveals the truths behind misleading data, and discredits the charlatans in a quest to sort out real, reliable health advice. He takes us along as he navigates the maze of facts, findings, and fears associated with emerging health technologies, drugs, and disease-prevention strategies, and he presents an impressively researched, accessible take on the production and spread of information in the health sciences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Skeptical? No problem!  Super Skeptic Desiree Schell will be <a href=\"http:\/\/skepticallyspeaking.ca\/episodes\/166-the-cure-for-everything\">interviewing Caulfield this Sunday on Skeptically Speaking<\/a>.  Also, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/scicurious\">Scicurious<\/a> will be talking about Coffee.  I won&#8217;t want to miss that.<\/p>\n<p>Details for the show:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>#166 The Cure for Everything<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This week, we\u2019re looking at what the evidence has to say about common claims about diet, exercise, weight loss and other hot health topics. We\u2019re joined by health law professor Timothy Caulfield, to talk about his book The Cure for Everything! Untangling the Twisted Messages About Health, Fitness and Happiness. And on the podcast, researcher and science blogger Scicurious looks at a new study of coffee consumption, and the effect it may \u2013 or may not \u2013 have on life expectancy.<\/p>\n<p>We record live with Timothy Caulfield on Sunday, May 27 at 6 pm MT. The podcast will be available to download at 9 pm MT on Friday, June 1.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Caulfield&#8217;s book, The Cure For Everything: Untangling Twisted Messages about Health, Fitness, and Happiness, attempts to be a corrective in the area of personal heath (as in diet and exercise) management. From the publisher: &#8220;In The Cure for Everything, health-policy expert and fitness enthusiast Timothy Caulfield debunks the mythologies of the one-step health crazes, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/26\/12215\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Cure for Everything<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4004,2749,103],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5fhV1-12215","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}