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Tables of Contents for Real Vitamin and Mineral Book
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
xiii
What's Your Real Vitamin and Mineral IQ?
1
5
Back to Basics
6
9
Part 1 The Case for Supplementation
1 What Are Vitamins and Minerals?
15
3
2 The RDIs-The Minimum Wages of Nutrition
18
13
3 The Optimum Daily Intakes (ODIs)
31
14
4 How to Design Your Own Nutritional Supplement Program
45
20
5 Your Total Health Plan
65
10
Part 2 The Vitamins
FAT-SOLUBLE VITAMINS
75
30
6 Vitamin A and Carotenoids
75
12
7 Vitamin D
87
4
8 Vitamin E
91
11
9 Vitamin K
102
3
WATER-SOLUBLE VITAMINS
105
10 Vitamin B Complex
105
4
11 Vitamin B1 (Thiamin)
109
4
12 Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin)
113
4
13 Vitamin B3 (Niacin and Niacinamide)
117
6
14 Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine)
123
6
15 Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin)
129
4
16 Folic Acid
133
7
17 Pantothenic Acid
140
4
18 Biotin
144
3
19 Choline, Inositol, and PABA
147
4
20 Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid)
151
14
Part 3 The Minerals
21 Calcium
165
10
22 Phosphorus
175
3
23 Magnesium
178
6
24 Zinc
184
9
25 Iron
193
7
26 Copper
200
4
27 Manganese
204
4
28 Chromium
208
5
29 Selenium
213
7
30 Iodine
220
3
31 Potassium
223
4
32 Boron
227
4
Part 4 Beyond Vitamins and Minerals
33 Coenzyme Q10
231
5
34 Essential Fatty Acids
236
9
35 Flavonoids
245
6
36 Other Nutrients: Alpha-Lipoic Acid (ALA), Garlic, Glutathione and N-Acetylcysteine (NAC),L-Carnitine, Melatonin, and DHEA
251
10
Part 5 Appendixes and Notes
Summary of Vitamins, Minerals, and Other Nutrients
261
8
Drug-Induced Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies
269
7
Troubleshooting for Disorders
276
3
Worksheet
279
4
Reference Abstracts for Vitamins, Minerals, and Other Nutrients
283
92
Index
375