The current explosion in research about vitamins and minerals makes all previous books on the subject obsolete. This single volume presents in pratical, use-it-now form, the best of what doctors currently know about using vitamins and minerals to cure diseases. Highlights include vitamins to take to prevent heart disease; those recommended by cancer specialists; and the various uses for the B vitamins.
In easy-to-use format. The editors of this book spent two years reviewing studies and interviewing hundreds of researchers to answer your vital questions about how to use vitamins and minerals to prevent and cure disease.
Describes the best way to use vitamins and minerals to enhance your health and to help in healing. Selecting multiple vitamins and minerals, how to customize your dietary needs, shopping tips, and recipes are just a few items discussed.
Discusses how vitamins can help to optimize health, fight disease, slow aging, and assist in weight loss, considering more than one thousand diseases, disorders, and conditions that can be helped.
There are over 50 vitamins, minerals, and amino acids that can keep you healthy and fit. Your body needs only small amounts of these vitamins and minerals. But because what the body manufactures is often not enough, these must be obtained from diet and from supplements. While most books provide limited information, this book shares complete information that you are ever likely to need about vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. A balanced diet is the most sensible way of getting sufficient quantity of these nutrients. The rich and natural sources of all nutrients are listed individually to help you choose easily
Results from the National Research Council's (NRC) landmark study Diet and health are readily accessible to nonscientists in this friendly, easy-to-read guide. Readers will find the heart of the book in the first chapter: the Food and Nutrition Board's nine-point dietary plan to reduce the risk of diet-related chronic illness. The nine points are presented as sensible guidelines that are easy to follow on a daily basis, without complicated measuring or calculatingâ€"and without sacrificing favorite foods. Eat for Life gives practical recommendations on foods to eat and in a "how-to" section provides tips on shopping (how to read food labels), cooking (how to turn a high-fat dish into a low-fat one), and eating out (how to read a menu with nutrition in mind). The volume explains what protein, fiber, cholesterol, and fats are and what foods contain them, and tells readers how to reduce their risk of chronic disease by modifying the types of food they eat. Each chronic disease is clearly defined, with information provided on its prevalence in the United States. Written for everyone concerned about how they can influence their health by what they eat, Eat for Life offers potentially lifesaving information in an understandable and persuasive way. Alternative Selection, Quality Paperback Book Club
A collection of essays after interviewing hundreds of the nation's top doctors & researchers, asking those questions that you want answered: Which vitamins & minerals (V&M) can a person take to prevent, cure or ameliorate specific diseases? How much of the nutrients should one take? Are they safe? What kind of results can be expected? Computer databases were scanned & thousands of scientific studies were reviewed to answer these questions. If you want to know which V&M to take & in what amounts, simply look up the disease you want to know about. You should get your healing V&M from foods whenever you can, although doctors recommend taking at least a multivitamin. Includes warnings of the toxicity of overdoses of V&M.
