Nutritional Supplements

Well over 50 percent of Americans use nutritional supplements to reduce the number of diseases that affect us, slow down the aging process, increase our vitality and strengthen our immune systems. Yet with all the hype and sometimes contradictory claims, it's easy to become confused when deciding which ones are right for you. Brenda Adderly's Introductory Guide to Nutritional Supplements provides thoroughly researched and unbiased information.

Physician and biochemist Cate Shanahan, MD, examined diets around the world known to help people live longer, healthier lives - diets like the Mediterranean, Okinawa, and Blue Zone - and identified the four common nutritional habits, developed over millennia, that unfailingly produce strong, healthy, intelligent children and active, vital elders generation after generation. These four nutritional strategies - fresh food, fermented and sprouted foods, meat cooked on the bone, and organ meats - form the basis of the Human Diet.

Although doctors are quick to prescribe medication to lower blood sugar, they often overlook the adverse side effects. While drugs may decrease blood sugar levels, they also increase the risk of heart disease, which is the cause of death for 75 percent of all diabetics. Dr. Julian Whitaker's...