Synopses & Reviews
Take charge of your well-being and feel younger, improve your health, and live longerFight disease, boost immunity, and slow the effects of aging with the Nutrition Almanac! Trusted for thirty years, it offers you reliable information based on the latest scientific discoveries as well as an expanded section on essential vitamins and minerals and their amazing benefits. All the nutritional information you need is here, so enhancing and maintaining good health is easy!
Hundreds of Ways to Improve Your Health:
- Discover rich sources of vitamins and minerals in foods at your supermarket
- Learn the difference between good fats and bad fats
- Use phytonutrients and probiotics to boost your health
- Find out which food ingredients and additives to avoid
- Evaluate supplement, herb, and vitamin fads with solid facts
- Get practical information on treatments from acupuncture to sound therapy
- Find more nutrition data, including newly released RDAs, calcium charts, and calorie figures for more activities
Nutrition Almanac is your resource for proven diet, health, and exercise information that will help you feel better every day of your life.
Review
The 5th edition of the Nutrition Almanac brings current a nutrition reference tool first published in 1973, when nutrition resources on this topic were nearly non-existent. Nutrition Almanac quickly became the go-to source for authoritative data on macro- and micronutrients. This most recent edition takes the Almanac in a different direction, perhaps reflecting stronger competition in the nutrition sourcebook arena.
Readers will find the data section, "Diet and Food Composition," still provides the standard information--calories, protein, carbohydrate, and fiber, plus the micronutrient breakdowns per item. Entries are grouped by type of food group (e.g., dairy and eggs, fats and oils, fruits and juices, grains). Other major sections cover nutrients and what each contributes to a healthy body; health conditions and the recommended nutritional responses for addressing each; and an overview of food groups.
New to this edition is a separate section focusing on alternative medicine and therapies (for example, aromatherapy, energy balancing, meditation, and hypotherapy). In addition, alternative-therapy options are interwoven throughout the entries for health conditions...
Synopsis
Take charge of your well-being, improve your health, feel younger, and live longer The Nutrition Almanac offers you reliable information based on the latest scientific discoveries as well as an expanded section on essential vitamins and minerals and their amazing benefits. All the nutritional information you need is here, so enhancing and maintaining good health is easy!
Eat better. Live longer.
- Learn how what you eat can affect more than 100 common ailments
- Discover rich sources of vitamins and minerals in foods at your supermarket
- Understand the difference between good fats and bad fats
- Get practical information on the benefits of antioxidants and phytonutrients in food
- Find out which food ingredients and additives to avoid
Synopsis
Take charge of your well-being, improve your health, feel younger, and live longerThe Nutrition Almanac offers you reliable information based on the latest scientific discoveries as well as an expanded section on essential vitamins and minerals and their amazing benefits. All the nutritional information you need is here, so enhancing and maintaining good health is easy!
Eat better. Live longer.
- Learn how what you eat can affect more than 100 common ailments
- Discover rich sources of vitamins and minerals in foods at your supermarket
- Understand the difference between good fats and bad fats
- Get practical information on the benefits of antioxidants and phytonutrients in food
- Find out which food ingredients and additives to avoid
About the Author
Lavon J. Dunne was the author of the highly successful Third Edition of McGraw-Hill’s Nutrition Almanac.
Table of Contents
SECTION I: NUTRIENTS Macronutrients MicronutrientsSECTION II: ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE AND THERAPIES Aromatherapy Ayurvedic Medicine Bodywork Chinese Medicine Chiropractic Herbal Therapy Homeopathy Mindbody Therapy SECTION III: HEALTH CONDITIONS SECTION IV: FOODS Food Groups Food ListsSECTION V: DIET AND FOOD COMPOSITION Weights and Measures Recommended Dietary Intake Chart Table of Food Composition References Bibliography Index