Title: How Not to Die Young
Author: Joan Gomez
Publisher: Stein & Day
Date: 1972
ISBN: none
Length: 224 pages
Quote: “It may be that you are ignoring something that needs a doctor’s attention. It mayb e that you have habits that are potentially lethal if you don’t alter them. It may be that you are worrying too much.”
Here, presented in an awkward negative way, is a summary of what we knew about health in 1972. No revolutionary changes have been made but the information in this book has been much refined, improved, and elaborated. I would agree that this was an outdated book that libraries could have replaced by 1982, but apart from the section on ulcers it’s still good common-sense advice. (Today doctors offer more efficient cures for ulcers caused by Helicobacter pylori, though they remain strangely blind to the super-efficient cure for the ones caused by glyphosate pollution, which is to eliminate glyphosate from the air, water, and food supply. Glyphosate-induced ulcers were not a widespread disease in 1972.) Most of the general books that have displaced this one are less complete; to get this much information about the incidence, causes, and cures of common diseases today you probably have to read several books with more specific information about each one—because more information is available now than was available forty years ago.
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