Vitamin Remedies That Really Work

Vitamin Remedies That Really Work! is the only book that tells you how to use natural food supplements to heal and prevent common medical conditions. It is the only book that tells you precisely what supplement to take, for which ailment, how much to take, and how often to take it. It is the only book that tells you exactly what results to expect and gives you a time frame in which to expect them. Perhaps best of all, it assumes that the reader knows nothing about how to use supplements as remedies, so the directions are simple, step-by-step, hold-your-hand instructions that are impossible to misunderstand.Many vitamin books give you more information than you want, but still do not tell you exactly how to use a supplement to treat a specific condition. That is all this book will tell you. If you are looking for more information on supplements, you will have to look elsewhere. This book does not contain information you do not need in order to use a supplement as a remedy. You will find no complex historical data here. No technical information on recommended daily allowances. No confusing details about what foods contain which supplements. And there are no diets or recipes. Instead, this is a simple, hands-on, how to book, with easy access to brief instructions telling you what you need to know to use supplements to treat illness. And everything you need to know to use a supplement as a remedy is found in this book.The alphabetical Cross Reference and Index give you quick access to the remedies for all the conditions addressed, as well as, an overview of supplements used. The Remedy At A Glance charts in each chapter make it easy to reference a remedy without rereading theinstructions each time.Each chapter concludes with a case study written as an entertaining and inspirational short story about someone who uses the remedy to heal and prevent a medical condition. You can relate to these people no matter who you are because they share the same problems as you. They are women and men, old and young, black and white, rich and poor, single and married. The stories take place in various locations like New York, San Diego, Dallas, the Midwest, Seattle, Los Angeles, Aspen, Puerto Rico, France, and Mexico.These personal accounts relate to the human condition and do more than just entertain. They make it easier to remember the directions in the first part of the chapter. You may forget Ginkgo Biloba and L-Glutamine, but you will remember Moshe, the kosher deli owner in Manhattan who uses the combination to recover his super memory. Or Betsy, the ninety-two year old granddaughter of a slave, who uses Vitamin B12 to help her outpace her forty-something nephew during a visit to San Diego's Sea World. To protect their privacy, pseudonyms have been used for most of the subjects of the case studies, and non-relevant biographical details have been changed. Real names are used in the personal testimonials found on the front pages. All of these people used supplements to help them reach their Maximum Best. You can use their experiences to help you reach your own.The Maximum Best PhilosophyThe intellectual foundation of Vitamin Remedies That Really Work! is the Maximum Best Philosophy, which embodies the principle of living responsibly and includes a duty to the self -- to try to fully realize your own potential. Maximum Best is completely personal. Youcan no more compare your Maximum Best to another person's than you can compare your fingerprints. It involves letting go of the world, the outside competition, and looking inside to compete with yourself. In other words, you can only gauge your attainment of Maximum Best by competing with yourself.One problem with competing with other people as a way of measuring your own abilities is that you are constantly dependent on -- and limited to -- the quality of the competition. If you win a race against people whose abilities are far below yours, it can be an empty victory. And there is no disgrace in placing last when you are outclassed by the competition -- if you reached your Maximum Best in trying. If you could fast forward to the end of your life and look back, your Maximum Best would be the highest points you reached in your lifetime. Maximum Best is better than your best. It is a level you must reach and stretch and tax to attain. Some people reach it a couple of times a week, others only once in a lifetime. Everyone has a Maximum Best even if he or she reaches it rarely.Illness is one variable that will affect your ability to attain Maximum Best; healing and preventing illness with food supplements is the focus of this book. Your body's warning plus your timely response cart equal prevention, making it possible to age without severe illness, but if you do not take care of your health, your body and mind will retaliate against you as you age. Consider the serious debilitations -- preventable cancers, mined livers, broken-down kidneys, worn-out hearts, fused and arthritic joints, deformed spines, clogged arteries and confused minds -- which could be avoided by making responsiblechoices about your health now.Naturally, you cannot account for or control every genetic predisposition to a specific condition, but you can do more to heal yourself than you have been led to believe. With the unique information contained in Vitamin Remedies That Really Work!, you have the power, right now, to heal and prevent many potentially debilitating conditions. For most people, the natural treatments can produce astonishing results in a short period of time and are fairly inexpensive when compared with drug treatments. If you follow the instructions carefully, the supplements can improve, suppress, heal, and even prevent the conditions they address.

The current explosion in research about vitamins and minerals makes all previous books on the subject obsolete. This single volume presents in pratical, use-it-now form, the best of what doctors currently know about using vitamins and minerals to cure diseases. Highlights include vitamins to take to prevent heart disease; those recommended by cancer specialists; and the various uses for the B vitamins.

Results from the National Research Council's (NRC) landmark study Diet and health are readily accessible to nonscientists in this friendly, easy-to-read guide. Readers will find the heart of the book in the first chapter: the Food and Nutrition Board's nine-point dietary plan to reduce the risk of diet-related chronic illness. The nine points are presented as sensible guidelines that are easy to follow on a daily basis, without complicated measuring or calculatingâ€"and without sacrificing favorite foods. Eat for Life gives practical recommendations on foods to eat and in a "how-to" section provides tips on shopping (how to read food labels), cooking (how to turn a high-fat dish into a low-fat one), and eating out (how to read a menu with nutrition in mind). The volume explains what protein, fiber, cholesterol, and fats are and what foods contain them, and tells readers how to reduce their risk of chronic disease by modifying the types of food they eat. Each chronic disease is clearly defined, with information provided on its prevalence in the United States. Written for everyone concerned about how they can influence their health by what they eat, Eat for Life offers potentially lifesaving information in an understandable and persuasive way. Alternative Selection, Quality Paperback Book Club

America's Most Reliable Vitamin Guide...Completely Updated! We've all heard about the miraculous curative and preventive powers of vitamins, minerals, and herbal remedies. Now the new, revised The Vitamin Book, compiled by pharmacological experts, cuts through the confusion so you learn what to take and why. Here is authoritative and up-to-date scientific information on exactly what vitamins, minerals, and herbal remedies can do for you. You'll find: Detailed descriptions of vitamins, minerals, trace elements, and electrolytes, including daily requirements, dosages, therapeutic uses, and more The latest research on St. John's wort, echinacea, CoQ10, DHEA, and other popular herbal and dietary supplements An essential guide to brand-name multivitamins found in your supermarket or health food store Specific recommendations for children, athletes, seniors, and pregnant or postmenopausal women Guidelines for safe supplement use, including megadosing and critical drug interactions,The nutrient content of hundreds of common foods, including popular fast foods How computer programs can monitor your vitamin and mineral intake And much, much more

The first demonstration of the existence of a vitamin and the full recognition of this fact are often attributed to the work of McCollum, who found that a sub stance in butterfat and cod-liver oil was necessary for growth and health of ani mals fed purified diets. It became obvious that an organic substance present in microconcentrations was vital to growth and reproduction of animals. Following the coining of the word vitamine by Funk, McCollum named this fat-soluble sub stance vitamin A. We can, therefore, state that vitamin A was certainly one of the first known vitamins, yet its function and the function of the other fat-soluble vitamins had remained largely unknown until recent years. However, there has been an explosion of investigation and new information in this field, which had remained quiescent for at least two or three decades. It is now obvious that the fat-soluble vitamins function quite differently from their water-soluble counter parts. We have learned that vitamin D functions by virtue of its being converted in the kidney to a hormone that functions to regulate calcium and phosphorus metabolism. This new endocrine system is in the process of being elucidated in detail, and in addition, the medical use of these hormonal forms of vitamin D in the treatment of a variety of metabolic bone diseases has excited the medical com munity.

This volume is the newest release in the authoritative series of quantitative estimates of nutrient intakes to be used for planning and assessing diets for healthy people. Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) is the newest framework for an expanded approach developed by U.S. and Canadian scientists. This book discusses in detail the role of vitamin C, vitamin E, selenium, and the carotenoids in human physiology and health. For each nutrient the committee presents what is known about how it functions in the human body, which factors may affect how it works, and how the nutrient may be related to chronic disease. Dietary Reference Intakes provides reference intakes, such as Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs), for use in planning nutritionally adequate diets for different groups based on age and gender, along with a new reference intake, the Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL), designed to assist an individual in knowing how much is "too much" of a nutrient.

Diet and Health examines the many complex issues concerning diet and its role in increasing or decreasing the risk of chronic disease. It proposes dietary recommendations for reducing the risk of the major diseases and causes of death today: atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (including heart attack and stroke), cancer, high blood pressure, obesity, osteoporosis, diabetes mellitus, liver disease, and dental caries.