I really like this book! It goes over the different vitamins, there uses and what food you can eat to get them. It went over everything too from antioxidants to hormones, medications side effects. I found this book very useful and a book that I will be going back and forth to for a reference when I need answers!

This book is a nice reference manual for different nutrients and the foods that contain them. It is divided into chapters such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and other nutrients. Each nutrient is listed with it's use, foods it is found in, and notes on some issues that arise if you have a deficiency or too much. The book lacks specific nutritional advice, such as optimum amounts of each nutrient. Some nutritional recipes or sample meal plans would have been nice, but sadly are missing. I could only recommend this as a reference manual for nutrients but not for someone needing a plan to improve their health.

I received a copy of this book for free in exchange for an honest review.
This is not a cookbook - this is incredibly informative book about vitamins, minerals and probiotics, it describes their uses and sources. It also looks into hormones, diseases, allergies, food acidity and lists benefits of some herbs and spices. Overall I found this book very useful, do not expect story line. This book is all about facts. I wish I had it on hand when I was studying nutrition.

An extremely valuable book for anyone who eats! The concept of basically controlling your health with what you put into your body is ably covered in this expansive volume. A fine reference for discovering sources of vitamins, minerals, amino acids and other nutrients. Highly recommended.

Excellent reference book to all food groups!

This is more like an outline of a book than a finished book. While there are promises of discussion about various topics, it's more just page after page of lists. The vast majority of the information is presented without any elaboration or reference to supporting information. For instance, in the section about basil is this statement: "High basil intake is associated with low blood sugar and liver cancer." Wait. What? No link to any research supporting this claim or further explanation. Many chapters begin with a statement that the chapter will discuss something when really all it does is LIST the various conditions or problems for which a certain vitamin, mineral or ingredient is used and the foods in which it is found. No discussion. I was hoping for much more from this book. For my purposes, it's not even terribly useful as a reference guide because there's no information to support the data in all of these lists.

This is a reference book required for anyone interested in proper nutrition and how to feed themselves and their families for a healthy life. Food should be the only medicine your body needs. Prescription drugs only mask your ailments; don't cure them.

A good book overall, but a little hard to use quickly. It is set up by sections, for example Vitamins/Minerals or Herbs to name a couple. Then it is lists the Vitamin, things it helps with (for example bloating) and natural foods that contain that vitamin. It also has notes and tips. Herbs and other categories the same. Trouble is though, if for example you are looking to relieve fatigue or depression, you cannot do a search looking for that symptom. You have to look up through each item, say for example Thyme, and there you find it aids in depression. As I mentioned it is a good book, and provides a lot of information, but a little clinical at times and would be easier to search by symptoms. Would recommend, but not sure how much I would use it.

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