Never Shower in a Thunderstorm: Surprising Facts and Misleading Myths About Our Health and the World We Live In

Never Shower in a Thunderstorm: Surprising Facts and Misleading Myths About Our Health and the World We Live In
by Anahad O'Connor

Never Shower in a Thunderstorm: Surprising Facts and Misleading Myths About Our Health and the World We Live In
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Author: Anahad O'Connor
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-15
ISBN: 080508312X
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Times Books

Book Reviews of Never Shower in a Thunderstorm: Surprising Facts and Misleading Myths About Our Health and the World We Live In

Book Review: Pretty poor book
Summary: 2 Stars

I bought this book to entertain me for a trans-pacific flight, and boy was I disappointed. Most of the questions are answered along the lines of: "Maybe, but it can't hurt to [blah]..."

Nothing is really backed up, and you're just supposed to trust the author. At some point in the book, it was talking about hair loss caused by tight hair styles. And it made the statement of Andre Agassi wearing hats all the time and then suddenly he was bald. So the hats must have caused him to lose his hair. Uh, maybe he wore hats because he had thinning hair?

I was not happy with this purchase at all.

Summary of Never Shower in a Thunderstorm: Surprising Facts and Misleading Myths About Our Health and the World We Live In

The New York Times's intrepid health reporter investigates the truth about sex, eating, exercise, and other health conundrums?For more than two years, the New York Times's science and health columnist Anahad O'Connor has tracked down the facts, fictions, and occasional fuzziness of old wives' tales, conventional-wisdom cures, and other medical mysteries. Now in this lively and fun book, he opens up his case files to disclose the experts' answers on everything, from which of your bad habits you can indulge (yo-yo dieting does not mess up your metabolism and sitting too close to the television does not hurt your eyes) to what foods actually pack the punch advertised (you can lay off the beet juice!).
A compendium of answers to the curious and nagging questions of how to keep healthy, Never Shower in a Thunderstorm will provide guidance and amusement to anyone who has ever wondered if the mosquitoes really are attacking her more than everyone else. (Yes, they are.)

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