Product Description

Encapsulating the science behind vitamins and minerals

Need to understand how vitamins and minerals work but find dense texts difficult to absorb? Here's your panacea! Vitamins & Minerals Demystified makes it easy to digest information on everything from A to zinc.

Written by a holistic health doctor, this essential guide explains the crucial role vitamins and minerals play in nutrition and physiology. You'll find details on the type and amount required for survival and for increased disease resistance. The book outlines the food sources of different vitamins and minerals and covers the benefits and pitfalls of both natural and synthetic vitamins. Featuring end-of-chapter quizzes and a final exam, this book will fortify your knowledge of vitamins and minerals.

This fast and easy guide offers:

• Numerous figures to illustrate key concepts
• Graphs indicating the foods rich in various vitamins and minerals
• Charts featuring U.S. Recommended Daily Allowances (USRDAs)
• Coverage of deficiency-related diseases
• Quick summaries of each vitamin and mineral reinforce learning

Simple enough for a beginner, but challenging enough for an advanced student, Vitamins & Minerals Demystified is the perfect supplement for anyone studying or interested in this important health topic.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #83915 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 342 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780071489010
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Steve Blake is the founder and director of the Maui Holistic Health Center and Natural Life Services. He has earned doctorates in naturopathic medicine and holistic health as well as earning a master herbalist degree. He has written a dozen databases organizing alternative medical knowledge including GlobalHerb and Alternative Remedies. He has developed many nutritional supplements including Advanced Nutritional System and Children’s Chewable by Rainbow Light and the Spectrum vitamin line.

Customer Reviews

Comprehensive and Understandable
There is a lot of great information in the book that is useful for learning about vitamins and minerals. I really like the authors organic and biochemistry explanations on the vitamins and how they work in the body. The figures are helpful to see how it all works. The content is comprehensive and if I was teaching a nutrition or vitamin class, I would recommend getting the book. There is a vast amount of information that is useful in this book.

Comprehensive book
This book was better than I was expecting as it provides so much information about all the nutrients. I was expecting a small simple book and this is very comprehensive and quite complex.

Highly advisable!
I am an electro-engineer PhD, who also get involved with Bio-phenomena. For this reason I assumed that I need a short book (not a bible) in order to understand the essential points for Vitamines & minerals. This book covers all basic knowledge with a comprehensive way & very usefull tables, quiz, short but very advisable comments & above all an appendix with all basics info for all vitamines & minerals (RDA's, defficiancy, toxicity, upper level etc). Just order it without loosing time!!!