| Part 1: The Vital Keys to Good Health |
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1 The Alphabet Soup of Nutrition What all those letters mean--and why you need them all. |
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2 Choosing What's Right for You Read this before you go to the vitamin store! |
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| Part 2: The A to K of Vitamins |
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3 Vitamin A and Carotenes: Double-Barreled Health Protection Why Bugs Bunny has such great eyesight. |
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4 Meet the B Family Family togetherness means better health. |
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5 Thiamin: The Basic B The grandaddy of the B family. |
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6 B Energetic: Riboflavin Burn off energy with this bouncing B. |
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7 Niacin: Cholesterol B Gone The B that boots out cholesterol. |
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8 Pyridoxine: Have a Healthy Heart Keep your heart beating beautifully with this B. |
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9 Folic Acid: Healthy Babies, Healthy Hearts The breakthrough B that's good for young and old. |
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10 Cobalamin: The B for Healthy Blood Are you sure you've got enough? |
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11 Pantothenic Acid: It's Everywhere The B you can't run low on. |
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12 The Unofficial B Vitamins Biotin, choline, inositol, and PABA: When is a B not a B? |
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13 Vitamin C: The Champion If there's a miracle vitamin or a cure for the common cold, this is it. |
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14 Vitamin D: Look on the Sunny Side Life's a beach when it comes to this vitamin. |
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15 Vitamin E: E for Excellent Tops on the vitamin report card. |
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16 Vitamin K: The Band-Aid in Your Blood Getting you through life's rough spots. |
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| Part 3: Minerals: The Elements of Good Health |
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17 Calcium: Drink Your Milk! It's not just for kids--grownups need strong bones, too. |
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18 Magnesium: Magnificent for Your Heart Also magnificent for migraines, blood pressure, asthma, and more. |
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19 Zinc: Immune System Booster Think zinc for colds, wound healing, and prostate problems. |
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20 Electrolytes: Keeping Your Body in Balance The electrifying news about potassium, sodium, and chloride. |
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21 The Trace Minerals: A Little Goes a Long Way Did you know you need molybdenum? |
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| Part 4: Exploring Other Supplements |
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22 Amino Acids: The Building Blocks of Life How you make 50,000 proteins from just 22 amino acids. |
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23 Essential Fatty Acids: When Is Fat Good? When it's fishy or flaxy. |
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24 Super Antioxidants Win the free radical battle with these power supplements. |
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25 Flavonoids for Humanoids If it's orange, eat it--then have a cup of tea, some blueberries, and a few garlic cloves. |
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26 Coenzyme Q(10): Cellular Spark Plug Natural energy for heart patients. |
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27 Help from Natural Hormones Melatonin, genistein, DHEA--what's this stuff really all about? |
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28 Fiber: Moving Things Along High fiber means high health. |
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| A Quick Reference Chart of Ailments and Suggested Supplements |
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| B Resources |
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| C Glossary |
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| Index |
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