The Healing Power of Vitamins, Minerals, and Herbs

by Reader's Digest Association

Book Overview

Las vitaminas y los minerales son fundamentales para prevenir malformaciones cong?nitas, enfermedades cardiovasculares, la osteoporosis, la anemia y un envejecimiento prematuro de las c?lulas. Por lo... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762101326
• ISBN13: 9780762101320
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.1" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

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Guide to Drugs Review

The only comprehensive book I know under this format. The book tells you what the drug is prescribed for. It explains how a particular drug works with the effects and side-effects when taken. It also tells you what food not to take when taking this drug. Excellent, specially if you are taking a few prescription drugs. Excellent referrence!

Great for the beginner!

I am by no means an expert when it comes to vitamins, at least not until I got this book. It offers a great base knowledge of vitamins, minerals, herbs, and nutritional supplements, while explaining how to take them daily as well as using them to aid in treating common ailments. There are helpful sections that explain how suppliments can benefit you, how to buy suppliments, and how to use them safely and effectively. The chapters involving ailments give detailed information regarding symptoms, what causes the ailment, what supplements may help, and most importantly, when to call a doctor. While the book promotes the useage of supplements to aid in healing, it by no means discourages seeing a doctor. One thing I really liked about this book is that they give a listing of drug interactions. This is very crucial when you take supplements as you don't want them to counteract any prescription or over-the-counter drugs that you may be taking. Overall, this book is well written and easy for the novice to understand. It's a great starting point for all you beginners out there!

It doesn't get any better than this!

I'm an expert on nutritional supplements. I've read dozens of books on nutritional supplements, and this is my personal favorite.It covers all of the major supplements. And it gives precise instructions for using supplements to treat virtually every well-known health condition.There isn't anyone (including medical doctors) who would not benefit from reading this book.If you buy only one book on nutritional supplements - make this the one!

It's about time someone made this subject simple!

This wonderful reference book discusses all types of nutritional supplements, from vitamin pills to oils and teas. Two main sections let the reader look for either an Ailment (like allergies, overweight) or a Supplement (like acidophilus, garlic). Almost 100 ailments are covered, including chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia. The book describes symptoms and causes, suggests supplements and exact dosages, and offers many helpful tips, properly attributed either to folklore or science. For each supplement, two full pages explain what it is, what it does, available forms (liquid, tablet, cream etc.), possible side effects, and why people use it. There's also an entire section devoted to drug interactions. In my opinion, this book is truly courageous and refreshing. It tackles a touchy, complicated topic, yet it's easy to understand. It uses the latest scientific data, but it's simple enough for a 10 year old to use. Bravo!