Want to know how healthy your food choices are? This updated edition of the guide to essential nutrition reveals all With processed foods and commercially farmed produce offering us less in the way of essential nutrition, and food industry labels exaggerating the health benefits of their product, people need straight-talking advice. Now fully updated, The Complete Guide to Nutrients is an invaluable A-Z reference that explains the active benefits of the foods, herbs, vitamins, and minerals needed for optimal health and well-being. Covering every vegetable, fruit, herb, vitamin, mineral, and supplement available, it enables you to take matters back into your own hands to stay healthy, fight illness, and cope with everyday stress. Each entry--from almonds, guarana, and kale to olive oil, St. John's Wort, and yogurt--describes in plain English what it is, where is comes from, the form it takes, how to prepare it, its medicinal health benefits, and a recommended daily dose.

Here in one volume is everything you need to know to keep your mind sharp and your body strong. The concept is so appealing—pop some vitamins every day to make up for any shortcomings in your diet. But the truth is a bit more complex. With the right information, Vitamins & Supplements for Everyone Who's Not Superman teaches you how to optimize your health. Learn what’s real and what’s not. New research has taught us that the multi-vitamin you’ve been taking for years might have outlived its efficacy and it’s time to change it up. Thanks to this incredibly informative guide, readers will learn all you need are the right supplements in the right amounts and you’ll have more energy, lose weight, and feel and look years younger. No matter your age, the right mix of vitamins can even help preserve your mind and lower your risk of serious conditions like diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. Learn the smart way to use supplements, how to avoid taking too much and having your health suffer—all while saving hundreds of dollars by skipping pills you don’t need.

Nutritional Supplements in Sport, Exercise and Health is the most up-to-date and authoritative guide to dietary supplements, ergogenic aids and sports nutrition foods currently available. Consisting of over 140 evidence-based review articles written by world-leading research scientists and practitioners, the book aims to dispel the misinformation that surrounds supplements and supplementation, offering a useful, balanced and unbiased resource. The reviews are set out in an A-Z format and include: definitions alongside related products; applicable food sources; where appropriate, practical recommendations such as dosage and timing, possible nutrient interactions requiring the avoidance of other nutrients, and any known potential side effects; and full research citations. The volume as a whole addresses the key issues of efficacy, safety, legality and ethics, and includes additional reviews on the WADA code, inadvertent doping, and stacking. Combining the most up-to-date scientific evidence with consideration of practical issues, this book is an essential reference for any healthcare professional working in sport and exercise, any student or researcher working in sport and exercise science, sports medicine, health science or nutrition, and for all coaches and support teams working with athletes.

Completely updated for the twenty-first century—a convenient, pocket-sized edition of the nation’s most trusted guide to holistic health. For decades, millions of people have turned to Prescription for Nutritional Healing for natural remedies to improve their health. This portable A-to-Z reference guide of the most commonly available types of nutrients, dietary supplements, and herbs puts that information at your fingertips. Drawn from the newly revised Prescription for Nutritional Healing, Sixth Edition, it includes: recent scientific discoveries about vitamins A, C, D, and B12, as well as biotin, coenzyme Q10, and calcium the newest information on herbs, such as turmeric, ashwagandha, lemongrass, and St.-John’s-wort; flaxseeds and oils; and sugar substitutes, including stevia and monk fruit up-to-date research on natural approaches to weight loss science-based information about COVID-19 Whether you are looking for relief from a specific ailment or simply to achieve and maintain optimum health, Prescription for Nutritional Healing: The A-to-Z Guide to Supplements quickly provides access to everything you’ll need to design a complete nutritional program.

Completely updated for the 21st century-a convenient, pocket-sized edition of the nation's most trusted guide to holistic health. Since its initial publication more than twenty years ago, millions of people have turned to Prescription for Nutritional Healing for answers to their holistic health questions. Of the guide's many invaluable sections, one of the most frequently referred to is the A- to-Z reference that lists and explains the most commonly available types of nutrients, food supplements, and herbs. This handy, portable edition makes it easy for readers to have that information at their fingertips. Drawn from the newly revised Prescription for Nutritional Healing, Fifth Edition, it includes: ?Recent scientific discoveries about vitamins B12, D, E, and more ?Current data on natural supplements like tryptophan (now back on the market) ?The newest information on herbs, such as tumeric, valerian, saw palmetto, St. John's wort, licorice, and kava kava ?Up-to-date research on the benefits of alternative healing and preventive therapies Today, more people than ever are embracing nonmedical alternatives to a wide range of health issues. Whether one is looking for relief from a specific ailment, or simply looking to achieve and maintain optimum health, Prescription for Nutritional Healing: The A-to-Z Guide to Supplements quickly provides access to everything needed to design a complete nutritional program.

"This accessible guide to nutritional options provides more than 900 entries that contain detailed, factual information about these substances. With a focus on how to use them safely, it discusses their effects on the body, their uses as health remedies, their risks, and the common misconceptions associated with them. Complete with appendixes listing useful resources and a handy glossary, The A to Z of Vitamins, Minerals, and Supplements, Second edition is an essential companion for anyone looking for the facts about enhancing their health with these products". --COVER.

The A-to-Z guide to essential vitamins, minerals, and nutrients, so you can ditch synthetic supplements and promote health naturally with nourishing foods. Vitamins and minerals are the building blocks of good health. But the heavily processed foods that are so common in today’s modern diet are stripped of these nutrients, leaving many people nutrient deficient despite meeting (or exceeding) their daily calorie needs. The accepted solution is to take supplements created in a lab, but the dosage and interactions can be confusing, and supplements are loosely regulated and not always foolproof, especially since our bodies are designed to receive nutrients from natural, whole foods. Eat Your Vitamins features fifty key vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients essential to your health. You will find clear definitions of each nutrient along with the role it plays in the body, how it is best consumed and absorbed, recommended daily doses, and detailed lists of foods and natural sources that contain the vitamin along with a recipe for a nutrient-rich meal. Ditch the synthetic supplements and make the right choice about how to properly feed and fuel your body.