Vitamins, Minerals And Optimal Health: Recommendations to Prevent Diseases Based on Science, Not Marketing
Language: English
Published by Tektime, 2018
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- Title
- Vitamins, Minerals And Optimal Health: Recommendations to Prevent Diseases Based on Science, Not Marketing
- Author
- María I. Tapia
- Publisher
- Tektime
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 889398055X
- ISBN 13
- 9788893980555
“A small oasis in the arid territory of so many miracle and/or fashionable diets, false promises and ‘rigorous’ studies”
To maintain good health, you must provide your body with more than 30 vitamins, minerals and other compounds that it cannot manufacture. Do you consume enough of all of them?Many experts do not think so. Their theory is that the typical diet of modern societies, deficient in certain minerals and vitamins, could be related to the high prevalence of some current chronic diseases. But is that true?• Can the deficiencies or shortages of these nutrients make us sick?• When should we resort to multivitamin supplements?The author addresses these issues, based on the novelties provided by science. She will give you the keys to get the right amounts of vitamins and minerals and optimize your health.YOU WILL LEARN
• How vitamins and minerals differ• Which vitamins should be replaced every few days and which ones your body can store and release as you need them• Why there is a debate about the recommended amounts and why more is not always betterINCLUDES SPECIALIZED SECTIONS
• How can I improve my diet• What other factors of my lifestyle can I improve• Foods rich in the scarcest minerals and vitamins in the diet “Written in a very intimate tone, it is useful for any reader who seeks to improve his or her health, prevent diseases, and get away from myths and pseudoscience”THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL FIND IN THE BOOK
VITAMINS AND MINERALS
• A discovery that changed human health
• Vitamins: those almost magical substances
• The latest discoveries
• What are vitamins useful for?
• Minerals: our inalterable body component
• What are minerals useful for?
SOURCES OF VITAMINS AND MINERALS
• Surprising data: where we get vitamins and minerals
• We are not what we eat, but rather what we make use of
• A plant’s goal is not our survival, but rather its own
• The micronutrient content of plants varies greatly
• How vitamins are lost from foods
IS IT NORMAL TO HAVE DEFICIENCIES IN VITAMINS AND MINERALS?
• How to know if we are consuming enough vitamins and minerals
• A super-productive agriculture does not provide us with more micronutrients
• Do we consume enough vitamins and minerals in developed countries?
• What are the scarcest vitamins and minerals amongst the population of developed countries?
• Conclusions
HOW TO GET THE VITAMINS AND MINERALS THAT WE NEED FROM OUR DIET
• To get the nutrients we need, let’s it eat real food
• Strategies to consume more vitamins and minerals without turning to supplements
• How to increase consumption of the scarcest micronutrients in our diet
HOW TO LIVE A HEALTHIER LIFE
• Let’s not blame our genes for our bad health
• How we can improve our diets
• What other aspects of our lifestyles we can improve
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
María I. Tapia has a PhD in Biochemistry with extensive professional research experience (Institut Pasteur, the food industry and pharmaceutical companies). This view “from the inside” allows the author to get close to the readers and help them familiarize themselves with the topics addressed in this book."Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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