Fortify your life your guide to vitamins, minerals, and more

"Health-conscious consumers read nutritional labels, but it's nearly impossible to get the nutrients we need with diet alone. To get the USDA-recommended daily quota of vitamin D, for example, you need to eat 15 eggs or 26 sardines; of iron, 414 almonds or 15 cups of broccoli. So we rely o...

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Main Author: Low Dog, Tieraona (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Washington, DC : National Geographic, [2016]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Life fortified
  • Inside the bottle and behind the label
  • Vitamins
  • Minerals
  • Nutraceuticals
  • Supplements for common ailments
  • Making sense of health information
  • Appendix 1: your food journal
  • Appendix 2: your personalized supplements chart
  • Appendix 3: laboratory tests
  • Appendix 4: drug-nutrient depletions and interactions.