Sharpen your memory and enhance your mental alertness using this clear, accessible guide to the foods and drugs that can affect and improve cognition.

The importance of a balanced and healthful diet cannot be overemphasized. But how can you be sure you are getting all of the nutrients your body requires? The Complete Book of Vitamin and Mineral Counts has the information you need. Find out which vitamins and minerals are in the food you eat--and what you may have to add to your diet. For example, are you trying to boost your immune system? You need zinc, and one of the best natural sources is in whole grain products like bran cereals. Worried about osteoporosis but don't like milk? Canned salmon is a good alternative to step up your...

CoQ10 is a natural nutrient essential to the life and health of every living cell.Without it, our bodies are unable to fight back against infections and disease.Unfortunately, many of us, especially as we age, lack sufficient CoQ10, putting us at risk of serious illness.now Dr. Emile G. Bliznakov and medical writer Gerald L. Hunt tell the whole remarkable story of this life-preserving nutrient already hailed as the immune system miracle.They show that by supplementing your body's natural ability to supply CoQ10, you may dramatically reverse the effects of again, poor diet, and decreasing...

THE HEALING POWER OF NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS
Long a champion of complementary medicine and nutritional therapy, Dr. Robert Atkins, author of the #1 best-seller Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, presents the scientific basis for the use of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, herbs, and hormones in the treatment and prevention of many of the chronic illnesses that plague us today. These vita-nutrients harness the body's ability to heal itself, rather than resorting to conventional drugs and invasive procedures, and address the true causes of disease instead of temporarily...

In "Your Personal Vitamin Profile," medical scientist Dr. Michael Colgan shows how individually tailored programs of vitamin and mineral supplements lead to better health and longer life.

According to Dr. Colgan, no two people have the same nutritional needs. Consequently, an "all-purpose" one-a-day vitamin pill cannot guarantee optimum nutritional supplementation in any diet. And there are factors beyond diet that must be considered. For instance, a man who smokes twenty cigarettes a day may require as much as fifteen times the Recommended Daily Allowance of vitamin C to maintain efficient...

-Christopher Hobbs and Elson Haas...take a complicated field and...make sense of it.-
--Ron Lawrence, MD, PhD, Director, Council on Natural Nutrition

Don't forget to take your vitamins It's good advice. But everybody's needs are different. Age, lifestyle, gender, ethnicity, diet, and habits all play a role in determining which vitamins and minerals you need more or less of in your diet. Like traffic lights, vitamins help regulate your body' most basic functions at the cellular level. And just like those red, green and amber beacons, they must be synchronized--not too many or too...

"Vital reading for anyone who wants to understand the public's decades-long love affair with vitamin supplements. Rima Apple deftly explores the science, politics, history, marketing, and mystique that have kept vitamins a hot-button issue for the American public."--Bonnie Liebman, Director of Nutrition, Center for Science in the Public Interest "Have you taken your vitamins today?" That question echoes daily through American households. Thanks to intensive research in nutrition and medicine, the importance of vitamins to health is undisputed. But millions of Americans believe that the...

Featuring information from the latest scientific research, this book helps readers sort fact from fiction when it comes to taking vitamins and supplements.

"Easy-to-use charts show how to use vitamins, herbs, minerals, and supplements correctly and safely. "

With more than 300,000 copies in print, The Real Vitamin & Mineral Book is a trusted resource for people seeking to make sense of the plethora of information about nutritional supplements. Now in its fourth edition, this book provides up-to-date scientific validation for the use of dietary supplementation in both the treatment and prevention of disease and for overall optimum health-the very facts that are not made available to consumers when they purchase supplements.
In this fully revised and updated fourth edition, readers will find:
- complete usage and dosage...

Building on the tremendous interest in health, alternative medicine, and nutritional supplementation, the User's Guide to Nutritional Supplements Series is designed to answer the consumer's basic questions about diseases, conventional and alternative therapies, and individual dietary supplements.

Written by leading experts and science writers, The User's Guide to Nutritional Supplements Series covers a range of popular alternative medicine and health issues, including specific major diseases, alternative therapies, and vitamins, minerals, herbs, and other nutritional supplements.

The...

Building on the tremendous interest in health, alternative medicine, and nutritional supplementation, the User's Guide to Nutritional Supplements Series is designed to answer the consumer's basic questions about diseases, conventional and alternative therapies, and individual dietary supplements.

Written by leading experts and science writers, The User's Guide to Nutritional Supplements Series covers a range of popular alternative medicine and health issues, including specific major diseases, alternative therapies, and vitamins, minerals, herbs, and other nutritional supplements.

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Calcium is essential for health, but it actually works best with magnesium to build strong bones, maintain a healthy heart, improve mood, and reduce PMT. This guide explains the health benefits of this nutritional team and how you can use calcium and magnesium together to enhance your health.

Vitamin C can reduce your risk of developing cancer and heart disease, improve your mood and energy levels, and even lessen cold and flu symptoms. The problem is that many people simply do not get enough vitamin C from their diets. This work explains the health benefits of this essential nutrient and how it can enhance your health.

"The most up-to-date lowdown on vitamins and minerals."

Updated and revised for the first time since 2000, this new edition of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vitamins and Minerals" covers all the latest research and developments in vitamins, minerals, and supplements in the last six years. It features significant new information on Vitamins A and E, folate, and glycosamine, among many others, and sets the record straight on much of the conflicting information out there on this subject.
--Covers all research and developments in vitamins, minerals, and supplements in the last six...

The first unified theory of nutrient deficiency and dependency Dr. Linus Pauling's revolutionary idea in the 1960s: the world is in a B-3 deficiency and dependency pandemic. Some patients may be vitamin deficient and others may be vitamin dependent. Dependency arises when the person has extremely high vitamin requirements. Both these patients will experience general ill-health and manifest a wide variety of disease conditions that are now inadequately treated with drugs in conventional medical practice. The authors prove that large, controlled doses of vitamin B-3 or niacin, are effective in...

Vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin that exists in eight different forms. Each form has its own biological activity, which is the measure of potency or functional use in the body. Vitamin E has also been shown to play a role in immune function, in DNA repai