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"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.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? Do sugar and food additives make children hyperactive? Can foods and vitamins protect against disease? How do foods and medicines interact? What weight-loss diet is both safe and effective? What should an athlete eat for top performance?The thinking person's guide to nutrition: With forty-one chapters packed with expert medical advice and over two hundred tables, illustrations, and sample menus, this book gives the clear, authoritative answers to all of these questions and more."

""From one of the country's finest schools of medicine comes the most comprehensive, authoritative, and practical lay reference guide to the heart ever published. For the more than sixty-five million Americans affected by some form of cardiovascular disease and the millions of others concerned about their risk of heart disease, the Yale University School of Medicine Heart Book could well be a lifesaver, with indispensable information on the prevention, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of our number one killer disease." "Each of the twenty-nine chapters was written by a member of Yale's distinguished medical school faculty and staff. In clear, understandable language they provide answers such as how to recognize critical warning signs (and take preventive action) before a heart attack strikes, how to live a normal life after a heart attack, how to modify your diet to lower cholesterol and lose weight without destroying the pleasure of eating, and how to manage stress in today's anxiety-ridden world." "There are special sections on tests and procedures as well as chapters on heart disease in women, the elderly, and children and young adults. A quick reference "Encyclopedia of Common Heart Disorders" provides at-a-glance descriptions of each medical problem, as well as its diagnosis, treatment, and prevention." "Also featured is a full-color atlas of the cardiovascular system and more than two hundred illustrations, charts, and tables. "