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Nutrition Almanac Paperback – 1 July 2001

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Take a bite out of a bestseller!Trusted by health-conscious people for over 30 years, McGraw-Hill's "Nutrition Almanac" - the oldest healthy eating and supplementation guide around - supplies accurate, up-to-date, and impartial information.That's why over 2.5 million copies have been sold! The new Fifth Edition contains the latest material on the nutrition/disease front: solid information on the latest supplementation, herbs, and vitamins; additional exercise/nutrition benefits and interactions; and much more.This book examines the connections between nutrition and disease; clarifies the role of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, and minerals; details the optimal supplementation dosages for individual needs; and presents the latest scientific data on health and eating. This book is invaluable to: physicians; nurses; dieticians; scientists; researchers; physical therapists; physician's assistants; chiropractors; sports trainers; and individuals who want reliable, complete, sensible information on the food they eat, the supplements they take, and the effect these have on their bodies.
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  1. Part of series
    Nutrition Almanac
  2. Print length
    404 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    McGraw Hill Higher Education
  5. Publication date
    1 July 2001
  6. Dimensions
    21.5 x 2.3 x 27.4 cm
  7. ISBN-10
    0071373381
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0071373388
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The 5th edition of the Nutrition Almanac brings current a nutrition reference tool first published in 1973, when nutrition resources on this topic were nearly non-existent. Nutrition Almanac quickly became the go-to source for authoritative data on macro- and micronutrients. This most recent edition takes the Almanac in a different direction, perhaps reflecting stronger competition in the nutrition sourcebook arena. Readers will find the data section, "Diet and Food Composition," still provides the standard information--calories, protein, carbohydrate, and fiber, plus the micronutrient breakdowns per item. Entries are grouped by type of food group (e.g., dairy and eggs, fats and oils, fruits and juices, grains). Other major sections cover nutrients and what each contributes to a healthy body; health conditions and the recommended nutritional responses for addressing each; and an overview of food groups. New to this edition is a separate section focusing on alternative medicine and therapies (for example, aromatherapy, energy balancing, meditation, and hypotherapy). In addition, alternative-therapy options are interwoven throughout the entries for health conditions... American Reference Books Annual 20040317

About the Author

Lavon J. Dunne was the author of the highly successful Third Edition of McGraw-Hill's Nutrition Almanac.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ McGraw Hill Higher Education; 5th edition (1 July 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 404 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0071373381
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0071373388
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21.5 x 2.3 x 27.4 cm
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5.0 out of 5 stars pefect
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Mikey
5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Must-have Book on Nutrition!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 February 2018
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This book has helped me a lot for the past fourteen months, especially in the area of dealing my hyperactive thyroid and the constantly bleeding haemorrhoids. I didn’t use prescription medication or allow any other medical interventions at all but invented my own nutritional plans using the knowledge gleaned from this book. Those two health problems were a thing of the past now. Good natural nutrition provides the body with sources and resources of what the body requires to keep well and be in good health. Eat well/healthily and give it time, a potentially threatening health problem will eventually go away. I strongly recommend this book to people who want to acquire base knowledge on nutrition and who want eat healthily and have a good healthy well being. An excellent must-have book on Nutrition!
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Martim Mauler Neto
5.0 out of 5 stars To keep opened over your desk
Reviewed in the United States on 2 August 2013
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I've started studing nutrition because of the sport activities i've been performing, aiming do improve my results and overall training performance.
Luckly I started by reading this book.
It does not aim sports nutrition, but the very fundamentals of nutrition, with lots and lots of information about every aspect of our bodies and how it reacts with every nutrient.
It helped me a lot with my further readings about the specifics of sports nutrition.
Checking the references it is possible to see the solid base in which this book was written upon..
The tables are awesome. Really awesome. And if you intend to build a good nutritional plan, thus using proper math, the investment will pay itself back hundreds of times.
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Rabbi Goldstein
1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money. This is a PARTIAL copy-paste of John Kirschmann original book
Reviewed in Canada on 15 May 2021
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I don't get it. This Kindle book is a PARTIAL copy of the original book by John Kirschmann ( also for sale right here in Amazon). Lavon Dunne appears to have just selectively "copy-paste" a TEENY PORTION of the extensive formation in Kirschmann's much-more-complete book, and is selling to unsuspecting persons here. Example: Kirschmann's book (by the same title) has around 8 paragraphs (a whole page) on Niacin. Dosages, toxcicity, metabolic functions, etc. The same topic by Dunne has less than 6 sentences! The misrepresentation is obvious within 2 minutes of comparing these. It's unfortunate that Kirschmann's much-better-version (the original) is only available in print not Kindle. But that's no reason to buy this Dunne version -- an absolute waste of money, and will only give you maybe 1/20th (one-twentieth!) of the info by the same book title to Kirschmann. To wrap it, I immediately applied for a refund to Amazon for this Kindle Dunne book. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK-- There, I've done by civic good deed for the day - to shout the alarm about this misrepresented book by Dunne.
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janella byrne
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, not recommended to use on e readers.
Reviewed in the United States on 7 April 2013
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I'm currently in naturopathy school and this is on of our books we use. It has wonderful information. Unfortunately, I bought this book for my kindle and is extremely hard to navigate using my kindle. It only offers location, not page. The glossary is useless, because you cannot go to what you just looked up. No page or location number. Hopefully whom ever published this book for the e readers makes the change to add page number look up and page number or location in the glossary.
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