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Overview
"The Nutrition Almanac" is a favorite reference in more than 2.5 million American homes for good reason. It is a complete nutritional guide that empowers you to take charge of your own health. It offers quick answers to questions about nutrients plus gives you everything you need to plan a total nutritional program, all in a friendly, down-to-earth style. This new edition has been painstakingly expanded and updated to put thousands more of the latest scientific facts and findings about nutrition and health at your fingertips. The new "Nutrition Almanac" offers simple, sensible, accurate, and complete nutritional information; provides a full nutritional analysis of more than 1,600 foods; explains the scientific basis for preventing, and sometimes curing, illnesses through proper nutrition; tells how to use vitamin and mineral supplements for better health; covers the role of antioxidants, phytochemicals, polyphenols, and phytoestrogens in optimum health; reveals the latest findings on herbs and herbal remedies; offers information on healthful cooking; explores alternative treatments such as homeopathy and aromatherapy; explains the relationships among exercise, diet, and health; and charts important information for easy reading."...analyzes the nutritional value of over 1,600 foods... explores the alternative treatments of homeopathy and aroma therapy and explains the relationship between exercise, diet, and health...covers antioxidants and herbal remedies."
Book Details
Published
April 1, 2000
Publisher
Mcgraw-Hill
Pages
494
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780071345484