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. Original.

Product Description: Vitamins are absolutely essential for a healthy pregnancy: before, during, and after. Expectant parents want healthy babies and to more easily navigate pregnancy’s many ups and downs. Problem is, standard prenatal vitamins don’t come close to meeting the needs of all women...read more

Product Description: This book offers practical advice on vitamins and minerals to help you understand what they do, why you need them and when to take them. The introduction guides you through the basic facts: how vitamins and minerals work and the effects they have on different parts of the body...read more

Product Description: Are you confused about vitamins? Unsure of which ones you need for optimal health, and what levels are safe? You’re not alone. Many people’s health issues could be improved with vitamins―if they only knew how to use them. In this award-winning book, The Vitamin Solution, Drs...read more

Thoroughly revised and expanded, an up-to-date guide to vitamins, minerals, herbs, and good nutrition includes helpful advice on how to maximize the effectiveness of supplements, how to create a personalized dietary regime, natural alternatives to popular medications, and much more. Original.

The vitamins are a chemically disparate group of substances whose only common feature is that they are required in small amounts for the normal functioning of the body, cannot be synthesised in the body, and hence must be provided in the diet. Metabolically they have diverse functions as coenzymes, hormones, modulators or regulators of growth and development, or as apparently non-specific antioxidants. This book explores the known biochemical functions of the vitamins, the extent to which we can explain the effects of deficiency or excess, and the scientific basis for Recommended Intakes. It highlights areas of current research interest and activity. Those areas where our knowledge is lacking and further research is required are also emphasized. It provides a compact reference volume which will be of use to all in the field of nutritional biochemistry, and indeed all who are concerned with vitamin nutrition, deficiency and metabolism.

Product Description: A bewildering range of vitamin, mineral and herbal supplements is now widely available to us all, but information about their health benefits cannot be given on the packaging as it would constitute a health claim. In this jargon-free guide leading expert on sensible supplementation, Dr Sarah Brewer, sets out all you need to know about the main supplements, and suggests which to take for specific health problems...read more

Product Description: Body Fuel for Healthy Bodies is a health/nutrition series aimed at helping young people understand more about what they eat.

Provides information about how bioflavanoids help in the absorbtion of vitamin C, help promote circulation, lower cholesterol levels, and prevent cataracts.

Product Description: 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...read more

Covers health issues such as nutritional guidelines, supplements, medicinal herbs, and more (view table of contents)

Offers techniques for assessing one's vitamin and mineral needs; explores the functions, benefits, and risks of each essential vitamin and mineral; and dispels false cures and remedies.

Updated to incorporate the latest nutritional and scientific research, a helpful manual offers techniques for assessing one's supplement requirements; explores the functions, benefits, and risks of each essential vitamin, mineral, and other supplements; and dispels myths about false cures and remedies. Original.

Revised and updated, the physician's guide to vitamins, minerals, and nutrition covers the latest research on calcium, B vitamins, and zinc, as well as new data on nutraceuticals and 'free radicals.' Reprint.

Product Description: Antioxidant Army fighting the corrosive and destructive forces that constantly work to break our bodies down, antioxidants are a powerful and effective defense force whose importance is just beginning to be realized. This superbook presents a comprehensive survey of what they are, what they do, and how you can use them to benefit your health...read more