True Nutrition, True Fitness

Winter...successfully blends research and clinical facts in an easily understandable prose. Touches of humor throughout the chapters make interesting reading...A readable introduction to nutrition and fitness.-Choice

• I: Nutrition.- 1:Protein:Too Much of a Good Thing?.- 2: Fat and Essential Fatty Acids: Lessons from Sheep Sex.- 3: Carbohydrates: From Glucose to Oat Bran to Sawdust.- 4: Is Sugar a Poison?.- 5: Vitamin A and Beta-Carotene: Of Carrots and Toxins.- 6: Thiamine (Vitamin B1): Polished Rice and Beriberi.- 7: Niacin: Pellagra and Madness.- 8: Riboflavin: A Vitamin for Depression?.- 9: Vitamin B6: Morning Sickness and the Premenstrual Syndrome.- 10: Pantothenic Acid: The Anti-Gray Hair Vitamin.- 11 : Biotin: Did Rocky Know About Avidin ?.- 12: Vitamin B12: Dr. Castle’s Predigested Hamburger.- 13: Folic Acid: Lucy Wills in the Slums of Bombay.- 14: Vitamin C: Scurvy, Dr. Pauling, Cancer, and Colds.- 15: Vitamin D: Hormone or Vitamin?.- 16: Vitamin E: A Vitamin in Search of a Disease.- 17: Calcium: Dietary Factor of the Year.- 18: Iron: Tonic or Toxin?.- II: Exercise.- 19: The Training Effect.- 20: A Program of Exercise.- III: Interactions.- 21: Cancer: Can 90% Be Prevented?.- 22: Heart Attack and Stroke: The Basics.- 23: Heart Attack and Stroke: The Role of Diet and Exercise.- 24: The Prevention of Osteoporosis.- 25: The Beverly Hills Diet and Other Tales of the Supernatural.- Guide to Vitamins, Nutrients, Minerals, and Trace Elements.- References.