Originally Posted by rockmuncher
Utter rubbish. All medical journals and studies are available on the WEB.
Journalism and web forums are poor substitutes for in-depth treatment of a subject
What you propbably should have stated is that the web is full of misinformation, untruths, fabrication and lies. Amongst all that lies the truth. The problem is working out what to believe.
Sorry, but most in-depth medical articles require a fee to download. You have to pay before you know the content. I know that for a fact haveing extensively researched my cancer and Chloresterol issues on the WEB. That said, there are some good medical articles on the WEB, unfortunately, the lack of context of these "snippits" can case one to do useless or counterproductive things. In my case, I've got a great doctor who'll actually read the articles and give me the context info.
It takes context and an indepth understanding of the issues to filter out the junk on the WEB. The best way to do that in the least time is to read a few books by folks in the field. Not all books are good of course, a good example of useless books are the diet books.
If you haven't read any good books on cycling recently, here's my suggested reading list of some top-notch ones:
Bicycle Science, third edition, by David Gordon Wilson and the two recent books by Chris Carmichael (the Ultimate ride, Food for Fitness).
Al