With all of the negative media about environmental threats over the last four decades, is it any wonder that most people believe disaster is just around the corner? But despite what the media would lead us to believe, annual reports from the Surgeons General show that Americans are the healthiest they have ever been, are becoming healthier and are, in fact, the healthiest people on the planet.

In You ve Been Had , Melvin Benarde aims to set the record straight and counteract the culture of complaint and worry with an unbiased account of the scientific facts facts which suggest we...