This quick-glance reference helps students and health professionals educate themselves and their patients/clients about the scientific evidence for and against more than 120 popular dietary supplements. Supplements are logically grouped into 12 chapters based on their primary desired effect, such as weight loss, joint support, and sports performance enhancement. The authors give each supplement a one-to-five-star rating based on the level of scientific substantiation for each of its major claimed effects. The book highlights crucial safety issues regarding each supplement and sets forth recommended dosages for particular effects. A quick-reference appendix lists all the supplements alphabetically with their star ratings.

The Health Professional's Guide to Dietary Supplements

Medical Books

Talbott, Shawn M.

Hughes, Kerry

Administration & Medicine Economics

Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins

A Guide to Understanding Dietary Supplements (Nutrition, Exercise, Sports, and Health)

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 conditions—from 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.A Guide to Understanding Dietary Supplements looks at the pros and cons of dietary supplements in the areas of: 
<ul>
<li> weight loss </li>
<li> bones and joints </li>
<li> energy, brain, and mood </li>
<li> heart, eye, and gastrointestinal health </li>
<li> male and female health </li>
<li> cancer, diabetes, and the immune system </li>
<li> sports and ergogenic aids</li>
</ul>In addition, the book presents an overview of the dietary supplement industry and the regulations that govern it and looks at the process for developing new products. Designed to cut through the confusion surrounding dietary supplements, A Guide to Understanding Dietary Supplemens is an invaluable resource for students, educators and professionals who deal with nutrition, exercise, physical education, nursing, and anyone else interested in health and fitness.

Sports & Outdoors

Routledge

Parenting & Relationships

The Cortisol Connection: Why Stress Makes You Fat and Ruins Your Health - And What You Can Do About It

Explores the documented relationship between levels of the stress hormone cortisol and a range of health disorders including obesity, depression, and hypertension, outlining how to control cortisol with supplements. Simultaneous.

The Cortisol Connection: Why Stress Makes You Fat and Ruins Your Health - and What You Can Do About It

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Kraemer, William

Diets & Weight Loss

Hunter House

Explores the documented relationship between levels of the stress hormone cortisol and a range of health disorders including obesity, depression, and hypertension, outlining how to control cortisol with supplements.

Literally millions of Americans suffer from various joint-related conditions: arthritis, inflammation and chronic pain are just a few. Of course, the effects of these conditions can range from simple annoying soreness to debilitating pain and complete lack of mobility. If you are one of these millions of sufferers, Dr. Shawn Talbott's newest title is just for you. Inside the pages of Natural Solutions for Pain-Free Living, you'll discover a program that covers all you need to know for healthy joints, bones and muscles, as well as how to achieve lasting relief from the chronic pain, stiffness and inflammation that currently afflict so many. Based on a holistic approach that utilizes specific nutritional supplements, stretching movements, dietary guidelines, and stress relief, Dr. Talbott's program will put you back on the path to increased flexibility, reduced stiffness and a more mobile, pain-free life.

Natural Solutions for Pain-free Living: Lasting Relief for Flexible Joints, Strong Bones And Ache-free Muscles

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Currant Book

The Cortisol Connection: Why Stress Makes You Fat and Ruins

Rupa Publications India

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