In a question-and-answer format, "Diagnosis: Heart Disease" gives all the information you need to know about heart disease. It explains how your body works and what has gone wrong; describes the tests, treatments, and medications you may be prescribed; and shows step by step your road to recovery, as well as preventive measures that can help you live the longest, fullest life possible. "For anyone with a heart, this book is good before, during, and after heart disease....An easy and profitable read." C. Everett Koop, M.D., Sc.D. "A must read for anyone concerned about themselves or a loved...

Caffeine-found in tea, coffee, mate, cola beverages, cocoa, and chocolate products-is an integral part of the diet of many people. Caffeine answers questions for a broad range of readers interested in the effects beverages and foods containing this dietary methylxanthine have on human health, nutrition, and physiological functioning. The composition, processing, consumption, health effects, and epidemiological correlations of caffeine are examined in detail. It is often said that too much caffeine is "bad for you." How much is too much? Get the facts on consumption of caffeine-containing...

The authors warn that lack of fiber in the diet can lead to degenerative diseases. A diverse diet of whole natural foods can provide all the fibers the body needs to help protect against health problems. Contains a glossary, appendices of explanatory tables and graphs, and a full list of books and references. Fiber is fully explained, and this consice, focused book is a valuable addition to the ongoing discussion of what constitutes a healthy diet.

Recently, however, this area of research has enjoyed a renaissance unparalleled in the history of the food and nutritional sciences, a reawakening which has occurred primarily as a result of epidemiology reports that suggested a positive relationship between plant fiber ingestion and health.

The study of plant fibers and their effect on human physiology has suddenly, after many years of comparative obscurity, been catapulted to the forefront of the scien tific world. This new interest, first ignited by certain epidemiological reports, has been intensified by new re search and by dramatization in the lay press. To counter act the dissemination of inaccurate information and to elimi nate confusion, several authors have felt the need to make objective, unbiased reports available to the scientific community. The collection of papers in our own Fiber in Human Nutrition (Plenum Press,...