All About Vitamins and Minerals: Key Nutrients for Optimum Health

ISBN: 9780681407152

定价: 15.00

内容简介

We re Getting
Smarter
about Nutrition
Can the right dose of vitamins or minerals cure disease? Can good
nutrition head off health problems and extend your lite? Can diet affect
the mind as well as the body? Is it necessary to take supplements to stay
healthy?
Scientists have been studying these and other questions about
nutrition for many years??? and the amount of data they have accumu
lated is considerable. But they re not nearly finished with the search for
information: New evidence on the importance of vitamitls and mine~
als is appearing constantly.
Some of this ongoing research is showing that many Americans
are increasingly concerned about what s in the 1???500 pounds of food we
eat every year. We re eating fewer franklurt~rs and less luncheon meat???
sugar??? candy??? oils and fats. We re eating more chicken??? cheese??? dark
green vegetables ~eod citrus fruits.
This concern is certainly a step in the right direction. Although
dear-cut deficiency conditions like scurvy and beriberi are mostly a
\". thing of the past in this country??? it is possible to be lacking in one or