Total Nutrition: The Only Guide You'll Ever Need - From the Mount Sinai School of Medicine

by Victor Herbert

Book Overview

Facts are healthier than fads. New myths and theories about nutrition splash across the headlines every day. Americans spend over $12 billion a year on worthless-even dangerous-nutrtion products. Total Nutrition replaces fads and ignorance with scientific fact.

"A feast of information," says USA Today. What's the best way to give a baby a healthy start? What is the right diet for someone with diabetes or heart disease or arthritis?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312113862
• ISBN13: 9780312113865
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 832 Pages
• Weight: 3.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great reference

This is an excellent nutrition book I'd recommend for anyone interested in non-fad information on healthy eating. It's an excellent reference. I think a second edition is needed with updates from more recent studies. Most of the basics don't change, however, and I still recommend this edition.

this book rocks!

This book is the terminator to false diets. It debunks your false beliefs about nutrition that have krept in over your life. One of the most important things i learned was over the last 10 years doctors have been taught tons about nutrition not the commonly believed 4 hours often heard from zealots. Don't expect nutrition to perform miracles. This book's strongest feature is it cuts through all the confusion, myths, and anything not tried and true by scientists. I think its a must have. Get this book and get on with your life and apply all that creativity to the rest of your life not your diet.

Excellent reference source for anyone

This is an excellent reference source for anyone wanting to obtain information for a school paper or learn more about nutrition. I tend to agree and disagree with the previous reviewers. Don't expect this book to have an exhausting amount of information on a specific subject you are looking for. This book is a broad and total reference on the subject of nutrition. At times I have had to search the index to find a subject located in multiple places in the book. Not uncommon for a large reference book. This book is one of the best for general, quick information on nutrition. I sometimes use it exclusively to research a paper for school. But at times find myself using several books to get all the information. Overall, AN EXCELLENT BOOK!

An excellent text ...

Excellent articles based on medical and scientific research. Topics are very broad.

Concise, scientific and medically relevant text of nutrition

I completely disagree with the review of October 25, 1998. Total Nutrition is a serious medical text about nutrition that supports its claims with scientific studies. I have a serious medical condition (a kidney transplant), and have had to learn a considerable amount about nutrition in order to keep my transplant healthy. I have over 60 books on nutrition, and this is the ONLY text that I reccommend to fellow transplant patients to understand nutrition.The book is in three parts: Part I: Nutrition is explained in detail so that the reader understands what a macronutrient (fat, protein and carbohydrates) and micronutrient (vitamins and minerals) is. Part II: Nutrition and its importance to aging and gender is explained, everything from infants to geriatrics. Part III: Nutrition as it relates to chronic and acute illnesses is explained. Every manner of illness is covered (I learned the most from the section on kidney ailments). I highly reccommend this book. If you have very little or no understanding of nutrition, Understanding Nutrition (by Ziff Davis press) is a very good introduction to nutrition and explains it in very easy terms. I read that book first and nutrition became very easy to comprehend. Stay healty!!