Vitamins and minerals in health and nutrition by Matti Tolonen

By Matti Tolonen

This e-book is a superb advent to the more and more advanced box of meals and healthiness for meals technologists and well-being execs. It comprises person entries for all significant supplementations, minerals and hint parts. details is supplied on dietary medication and telephone protecting mechanisms, including the position of supplements, minerals, hint components and crucial fatty acids in treating and fighting problems.

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By Matti Tolonen

This e-book is a superb advent to the more and more advanced box of meals and healthiness for meals technologists and well-being execs. It comprises person entries for all significant supplementations, minerals and hint parts. details is supplied on dietary medication and telephone protecting mechanisms, including the position of supplements, minerals, hint components and crucial fatty acids in treating and fighting problems.

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Proc. 24 (1965) 73-78. Tolonen, M. Finnish studies on antioxidants with special reference to cancer, cardiovascular diseases and ageing. Int. Clin. Nutr. Rev. 9 2 (1989) 68-75. Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA). National Academy of Sciences. 10th edition Washington, 1989. 2 Micronutrient therapy 1. WHAT IS MICRONUTRIENT THERAPY? Natura curat, medicus adjuvat. ) Latin proverb Nature is not a temple, it is a workshop in which man works. Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) Many vitamins and minerals are antioxidants which inhibit or repair cell damage.

Freeradicals in biology and medicine. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987. Hurley, L. , Keen, C. , Lonnerdahl, B. and Rucker, R. B. (eds). Trace elements in man and animals 6. Plenum Press, New York - London, 1988, p. 724. , Kondo, M. and Yoshiwaka, T. (eds). Medical, biochemical and chemical aspects offree radicals. Vols 1 & 2. Elsevier, Amsterdam - New York - Oxford - Tokyo, 1989, p. 1559. Pryor, W. A. The Free Radical theory of ageing revised: A critique and a suggested disease-specific theory. In: Warner, H.

The utilization of vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids in supplementation treatment for cancer is based on the knowledge that these substances have a cancerpreventive effect, and on the fact that those people who contract cancer already had, in many cases, insufficiencies of these micronutrients when they were healthy. Operations, radiation treatment and chemotherapy do nothing to readjust the vitamin deficiency condition; on the contrary, radiation treatment and chemotherapy dramatically reduce the blood levels of p-carotene and vitamin E and the deficiency has to be counterbalanced with food supplements.

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