Fifth edition 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!

A reference book for the general public provides information and guidelines for creating personal nutrition plans and answers simple questions regarding food, nutrition, and health. Topics include discussions of over 40 vitamins and minerals (including absorption, storage, dosage, toxicity, deficiency effects and symptoms, beneficial effects on specific ailments, and human and animal test findings); nutrient-nutrient compatability or antagonism; nutrient supplements; common ailments and weight problems caused by an imbalanced intake of nutrients; nutritional aspects of common herbs; and the nutritional value of foods, beverages, and supplementary foods. A comprehensive table listing the nutrient contents of over 600 foods and a "nutrient allowance chart" providing information on personal nutrient needs by body size, metabolism, and calorie requirements also are included.

Paperback 291 pages