True Nutrition, True Fitness

ISBN-13: 9780896031845 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 419 str.

Jerrold Winter

Opis

Dr. Winter brings order to our understanding of nutrition, exercise, and how these factors work together in health and illness. Many diseases-cancer, heart attack, and stroke, for example-are discussed in detail. It is not a fad book-just pure facts and good sense.

Recenzje

Winter...successfully blends research and clinical facts in an easily understandable prose. Touches of humor throughout the chapters make interesting reading...A readable introduction to nutrition and fitness.-Choice

Spis treści

I: Nutrition.- 1:Protein:Too Much of a Good Thing?.- 2: Fat and Essential Fatty Acids: Lessons from Sheep Sex.- 3: Carbohydrates: From Glucose to Oat Bran to Sawdust.- 4: Is Sugar a Poison?.- 5: Vitamin A and Beta-Carotene: Of Carrots and Toxins.- 6: Thiamine (Vitamin B1): Polished Rice and Beriberi.- 7: Niacin: Pellagra and Madness.- 8: Riboflavin: A Vitamin for Depression?.- 9: Vitamin B6: Morning Sickness and the Premenstrual Syndrome.- 10: Pantothenic Acid: The Anti-Gray Hair Vitamin.- 11 : Biotin: Did Rocky Know About Avidin ?.- 12: Vitamin B12: Dr. Castle’s Predigested Hamburger.- 13: Folic Acid: Lucy Wills in the Slums of Bombay.- 14: Vitamin C: Scurvy, Dr. Pauling, Cancer, and Colds.- 15: Vitamin D: Hormone or Vitamin?.- 16: Vitamin E: A Vitamin in Search of a Disease.- 17: Calcium: Dietary Factor of the Year.- 18: Iron: Tonic or Toxin?.- II: Exercise.- 19: The Training Effect.- 20: A Program of Exercise.- III: Interactions.- 21: Cancer: Can 90% Be Prevented?.- 22: Heart Attack and Stroke: The Basics.- 23: Heart Attack and Stroke: The Role of Diet and Exercise.- 24: The Prevention of Osteoporosis.- 25: The Beverly Hills Diet and Other Tales of the Supernatural.- Guide to Vitamins, Nutrients, Minerals, and Trace Elements.- References.