User's Guide to Vitamin E


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Building on the tremendous interest in health, alternative medicine, and nutritional supplementation, the User's Guide to Nutritional Supplements Series is designed to answer the consumer's basic questions about diseases, conventional and alternative therapies, and individual dietary supplements. Written by leading experts and science writers, The User's Guide to Nutritional Supplements Series covers a range of popular alternative medicine and health issues, including specific major diseases, alternative therapies, and vitamins, minerals, herbs, and other nutritional supplements. The User's Guide to Vitamin E explains this remarkable vitamin's benefits and how you can easily put it to work for you.







User's Guide to Vitamin C


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Vitamin C can reduce your risk of developing cancer and heart disease, improve your mood and energy levels, and even lessen cold and flu symptoms. The problem is that many people simply do not get enough vitamin C from their diets. This work explains the health benefits of this essential nutrient and how it can enhance your health.




User's Guide to Vitamins and Minerals


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Building on the tremendous interest in health, alternative medicine, and nutritional supplementation, the User's Guide to Nutritional Supplements Series is designed to answer the consumer's basic questions about diseases, conventional and alternative therapies, and individual dietary supplements. Written by leading experts and science writers, The User's Guide to Nutritional Supplements Series covers a range of popular alternative medicine and health issues, including specific major diseases, alternative therapies, and vitamins, minerals, herbs, and other nutritional supplements. The User's Guide to Vitamins & Minerals explains how these remarkable nutrients can make a big difference in your health.




Vitamin E


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Can I take Vitamin E with other medications? How about a new Vitamin E-like prescription drug? Can enzymes be taken when a person is on Vitamin E prescription medications? What should I know about Vitamin E medication? Will taking Vitamin E make me irritable? Always talk to your doctor about Vitamin E, your condition and your treatment. But what exactly to ask your doctor to make sure you are both covering everything you need to know about Vitamin E? 'Vitamin E; The Ultimate Step-By-Step Guide' presents readers with a whole new set of 668 pivotal questions to discuss your situation with your healthcare provider, consider your options, and help you make decisions that are right for you. 'Vitamin E; The Ultimate Step-By-Step Guide' poses questions that Vitamin E medication users didn't even know they needed to ask. With lots of room to note down your doctor's answers and an extensive index, this book is a must-have for anyone who has, or is about to have, Vitamin E prescription medication, and indispensable for healthcare providers who want to make sure they are able to answer every question.




Dietary Reference Intakes for Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Selenium, and Carotenoids


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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.




User's Guide to Nutritional Supplements


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The User's Guide to Nutritional Supplements focuses on the most popular nutritional supplements, those that consistently attract the most attention - and are the ones most likely to benefit the majority of people. In describing the most popular nutritional supplements, this book explains: * Vitamin E can reduce the risk of heart disease - and the best types to take. * Selenium can slash the chances of developing some types of cancer. * Ginkgo can improve memory and recall. * Chromium can help oromote weigth loss and lower the risk of diabetes. * Glucosamine and chondroitin can prevent osteoarthritis. * Calcium and magnesium work together to build strong bones. * Coenzyme Q10 can boost your energy levels and strengthenyour heart. * Ginseng and other supplements boost your exercise stamina.




User's Guide to Antioxidant Supplements


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Covering a wide range of popular alternative medicine and health issues, User's Guides are written by leading experts and science writers and are designed to answer the consumer's basic questions about disease, conventional and alternative therapies, and individual dietary supplements.




User's Guide to Brain-Boosting Nutrients


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In the Users Guide to Brain-Boosting Nutrients, leading nutritionist and author of the Real Vitamin and Mineral Book Shari Lieberman teams up with top nutrition writer and former editor of Better Nutrition magazine James Gormley to describe the best brain-boosting dietary supplements including vitamin E, ginkgo, amino acids, huperzine A, and acetyl-L-carnitine and how to use them safely and effectively to achieve optimum brain power.




User's Guide to Glucosamine and Chondroitin


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Explains how these supplements can help you overcome the pain of arthritis.