Washington Post - Books on health and wellness address exercise and growing your own food
The dust jacket may suggest a straightforward health guide, but break the binding on this book by Joe Schwarcz, a 成人大片 University professor and Discovery Channel Canada regular, and you鈥檒l find a livelier take on wellness.
Using a Q&A format, Schwarcz tries to clear up confusion on eating well, exercising, and, uh .鈥�.鈥�. whether amphetamines are as bad for elephants as they are for humans. (Yes.) He tackles everyday curiosities 鈥� for example, why store-bought ice cream uses 鈥渕odified milk ingredients.鈥� (It鈥檚 a cheaper, concentrated form of milk with a longer shelf life, he says, but harmless health-wise.)
Sometimes, his answers get a little bit saucy. Does an apple a day really help prevent cancer? 鈥淢aybe,鈥� says Schwarcz. 鈥淎lmost certainly if you鈥檙e a laboratory rat and have apple extract pumped into your stomach every day throughout your life after being exposed to a carcinogen.鈥� Hey, sorry we asked...