A guide to understanding dietary supplements

• Main Author: Talbott, Shawn M. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Haworth Press 2003
• Series: Nutrition, exercise, sports, and health
• Subjects: Dietary Supplements; Plant Extracts > therapeutic use; Plants, Medicinal; Vitamins > therapeutic use
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• Physical Description: xxv, 713 pages illustrations 22 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9780789014559; 0789014556; 9780789014566; 0789014564

Written by one of the foremost experts on sports nutrition and performance, A Guide to Understanding Dietary Supplements takes a critical look at the dietary supplement industry. With an estimated 60 percent of adult Americans using dietary supplements every day, the need for a thorough examination of the hundreds of products on the market is long overdue. This comprehensive guide (Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine) presents straightforward analysis from a consumer's perspective, giving you the facts on more than 140 supplements and information on which supplements work (and which don't!) for a wide range of health conditionsfrom preventing cancer and heart disease to fighting diabetes and depression.United States Department of Agriculture surveys show that more than 70 percent of Americans fail to achieve daily recommended levels for many vitamins and minerals. With today's emphasis on fitness, millions are investing their money and health in quick-fix solutions-supplements promoted as cure-alls to right nutritional wrongs, lower the likelihood of disease, and work dietary miracles. A Guide to Understanding Dietary Supplements presents a more realistic view of supplements as neither miracle cure nor nutritional sham, but as consumer products to be accepted or rejected based on scientific fact, not fitness fantasy