| Complete Guide to Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (1988) |
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| From the Publisher All you need to know about vitamins, minerals, supplements and 200 medicinal herbs. Gives dosage; overdose; benefits; deficiency symptoms; natural food sources; adverse reactions and side effects; medications, vitamin, minerals, foods and beverages, proven and unproven claims. Annotation At-a-glance charts provide dosage, benefits, deficiency symptoms, natural food sources, possible adverse reactions, side effects, interactions with medication and more. Synopsis "The aim of this guide is to define vitamins, minerals, and other dietary supplements; present dosage and usage information; and provide warnings and precautions. . . . The book is divided into five main sections: vitamins, minerals, nucleic acids and amino acids, other supplements, and medicinal herbs. Seventy-five vitamins and minerals are arranged alphabetically." (Booklist) Glossary. Index. From The Critics Library Journal This guide, by a physician specializing in family medicine, covers almost every substance likely to be taken by mouth, and some unlikely ones. Introductory advice on the dietary supplements gives common-sense principles of nutrition. The substances are listed alphabetically in easy-to-read charts that include information on reasons to take or not to take, toxicity, laboratory tests, and interaction with other substances. The section on medicinal herbs is almost too comprehensive, including some that are dangerously toxic (although a toxicity chart follows). A useful final chart lists brand names for substances covered. The Merck Index is as complete, but is not for the lay reader. Recommended for public libraries.Eleanor Maass, Maass Assocs., New Milford, Pa. |
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| Spine title: Vitamins. Includes index. |