Robert Crayhon's Nutrition Made Simple: A Comprehensive Guide to the Latest Findings in Optimal Nutrition
Author: Robert Crayhon
Are you looking for one book to explain all of the basics of nutrition and the latest findings? Let Robert Crayhon guide you with his fun, direct, and scientifically documented approach.
Publishers Weekly
Crayhon, host of the nationally syndicated radio show ``The Voice of Wellness,'' and a New York-area nutritionist who heads Designs for Health, an organization devoted to devising customized nutrition plans for clients, has surveyed his audience's most commonly asked questions with bearing on health and addressed them in this useful book. In a chapter titled``Is Sugar Bad for You?,'' for example, he explains the effect of sugar on the immune system: ``When we are healthy and avoid sugar, our protective white blood cells circle the body like energetic prizefighters knocking out viruses and bacteria...yet these same protective pugilists can be knocked unconscious by sugar.'' Crayhon reconsiders the health benefits and drawbacks of alcohol (and lauds red wine for its antioxidants). He explains how to spur energy by natural means, such as aerobic exercise, quitting caffeine, and taking in ``energizing nutrients'' like magnesium and potassium. His writing, direct and concise, covers much ground in a well-organized and friendly manner that will bring current knowledge of nutrition to a broad audience. (Jan.)
Library Journal
The author of this well-organized and easily understood book is a certified nutritionist who operates six clinics and hosts two syndicated radio programs about nutrition. Although many of his recommendations echo those in other recent titles advocating good health through nutrition (e.g., Gene Spiller's The Super Pyramid Eating Program, LJ 3/15/93; Dean Ornish's Eat More, Weigh Less, LJ 6/1/93; and Neal Barnard's Food for Life, LJ 6/15/93), he also recommends supplementation as essential to obtaining optimum health. Crayhon believes that a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet is not healthful for some population groups and suggests that individuals look to their own ancestry and personal situation in choosing an appropriate diet. He cites hydrogenated fat, rather than cholesterol, as the culprit in our epidemic of heart disease and other diet-related illnesses. His book offers a thorough explanation of all nutrients, with explicit guides for selecting a beneficial combination. Crayhon also discusses specific health problems and nutrition, including high blood pressure, PMS, and osteoporosis. An excellent addition to nutrition collections.-Carol Cubberley, Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
New interesting book: The Amateur Gourmet or Great Vegetable Plot
OncoLink Patient Guide: Prostate Cancer
Author: James M Metz
This book provides the essential information that you need throughout all stages of this disease. Avoiding jargon, it answers all the questions that you have concerning risk and prevention, screening and diagnosis, through to all the various treatment options available: surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, complementary and alternative therapies and provides you with day-to-day lifestyle advice too. Attractively designed and clearly presented, the book allows you to be able to find quickly all the answers that you are looking for, safe in the knowledge that the information comes from one of the world's leading cancer internet resources - OncoLink. Compiled by international experts, and arranged in a question and answer style, this book is an essential purchase for all prostate cancer patients, their doctors and their carers.
• Comprehensive coverage from risk and prevention, and screening and diagnosis, through to treatment options (surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, complementary and alternative medicine), nutrition and living with prostate cancer.
• Attractively designed to aid instant access to the information.
• Published in collaboration with one of the world's leading internet cancer resources: OncoLink.
• Expert authors and contributors
• Arranged in an FAQ style
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Risk and prevention
Screening and diagnosis
Treatment [surgery/hormonal therapy/radiation therapy/chemotherapy]
Complementary and alternative medicine
Nutrition and prostate cancer
Living with prostate cancer
Resources
Cancer diary
No comments:
Post a Comment