The Vitamin Alphabet: Your Guide to Vitamins, Minerals and Food Supplements

By Christina Scott-Moncrieff

Make sure that you are getting all the vitamins and nutrients you need! Written by a physician who uses both conventional and homeopathic medicines, this must-have guide is a handbook for good health. More than 51 nutritional supplements are presented with explanations of what they do, what they can be combined with for enhanced effect, in which foods they can be found, and the recommended daily allowances. Recipes for quick nutritional boosts, case studies, and deficiency checklists are included. In addition to providing information on such common supplements as Vitamins C, A, D, E, and the B-complexes and important minerals like calcium, potassium, iron, and zinc, this authoritative reference also features information on common herbal supplements, including garlic, echinacea, ginseng, and ginkgo biloba. A cross-referenced lifestyles section highlights the special supplement needs for pregnancy, child development, athletics, immune system boosting, and more.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1855856816
• ISBN13: 9781855856813
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Collins & Brown
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.8" x 10.4"

Customer Reviews

The definitive guide to Vitamins, Minerals, and Food Supplements

A complete handbook, fully illustrated, with detail descriptions for each entry, covering not only their characteristic, daily allowances, symptoms when not taking the minimum required, foods that contains them, safety issues, but also specific needs during the different stages of our lives - adolescence, pregnancy, intense activity, post-surgery, stress periods, etc. A definitive must have to manage your health, and supplement your diet and daily routines, in an informed way