Too Much Medicine, Not Enough Health : Your Own Health and Fitness : 9780975423707 : 0975423703 : 15 Sep 2009 : What's the Real Health Care Crisis? The penetrating essays in this collection answer: health care isn't about health. As they unpack the shortcomings of the science that leads to overdiagnosis and overtreatment at the hands of the health care system, the authors offer an alternative to health as the absence of disease: health as the biological capacity to lead a full, rich life. Over sixty essays offer both a critical analysis of health science and practical solutions to health issues. A wide range of issues are explored, including - Why hypertension isn't a disease - Why obesity isn't a disease - How hormone imbalance is ignored - How nutrition standards are flawed - Why vitamins are good for you - How news media are biased on health - How research is biased on health - How environmental cues affect health - Why the conventional explanation for heart attacks makes no sense -