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Product Description:
The Vitamin E Factor provides a brand new perspective on vitamin E based on the latest cutting edge research. You will find how this amazing nutrient and master antioxidant can help you: *Prevent heart attacks, some cancers and cataracts. *Delay the onset of and Alzheimer’s disease. *Reduce the risk of complications from diabetes and AIDS. *Slow down the aging process. *Protect your skin. *Maintain good health and improve the quality of life. Even more important, this book explains why most commercial vitamin E products do not provide the full benefits because they contain only one of the eight members of the vitamin E family. You will be introduced to the long-ignored other tocopherols and the tocotrienols and their benefits. You will learn how to develop a customized personal plan to enjoy the full benefits of the whole vitamin E team. This amazing team is an indispensable partner for good health and quality of life: vitamin E can help improve poor fertility of men, help mothers have healthy babies, and reduce the misery of arthritis, premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and menopause.
Pages:
395
Cover:
Soft
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
Date Published:
1999
Edition:
First
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements: xi Foreword: xiii Introduction: 1 Part I - The Vitamin E Family - Up Close and Personal 1. The History of Vitamin E: 11 2. Getting to Know the Vitamin E Family: 30 3. What is Esterified Alpha-Tocopherol?: 42 4. Why Natural Vitamin E is Better: 48 Part II - From Our Gut to Our Tissues: How Vitamin E is Absorbed and Transported in Our Body 5. Learning from Vicki the Elephant: Absorption and Use of Vitamin E: 63 6. Oil and Water Do Not Mix, or Do They? How Vitamin E is Absorbed: 75 7. Diseases (Mostly Genetic) That Cause Vitamin E Deficiency: 84 Part III - How Vitamin E Works In Our Body 8. The Burden of Proof: 97 9. The Master Antioxidant Plus: 111 10. Keeping the Bad Cholesterol LDL from Becoming Really Ugly: 127 Part IV - Major Chronic Diseases: The Role of Vitamin E 11. The Heart and Vitamin E - Part 1: 137 12. The Heart and Vitamin E - Part 2: 146 13. Cancer: Great Expectations: 155 14. Vitamin E and Diabetes - The Great Management Tool: 170 15. For Your Eyes Only: 182 16. Rays of Hope for Delaying Alzheimer's Disease (and Other Horrible Diseases of the Brain): 191 17. Battling AIDS - An Indispensable Ally: 204 18. Autoimmune Diseases - Can Vitamin E Help?: 217 Part V - Improving Health and the Quality of Life 19. Aging with Good Health (and Grace): 227 20. Exercise: 241 21. Let's Get (Very) Personal: 252 22. More Than Skin Deep: 266 Part VI - Where To Find Vitamin E, Which Form To Use, And How Much 23. Finding Vitamin E in Foods: 283 24. How Much Vitamin E Should I Take and Which Form?: 296 25. A Guided Tour of the Vitamin Counter (in Your Neighborhood Health Food Store, Drugstore, or Grocery Store): 304 26. How Safe is Vitamin E?: 311 Part VII - What Does The Future Hold? 27. My Crystal Ball: 323 Epilogue: 331 Appendices Appendix A - The Eight Members of the Vitamin E Family: 333 Appendix B - Natural Versus Synthetic Alpha-Tocopherol - 335 Appendix C - How the Potency of Vitamin E is Calculated for the Products You Buy: 337 e-References: 338 Books: 347 Scientific (and some e-) References: 349 Index: 381
About the Author:
Andreas M. Papas, Ph.D., is a senior technical associate at Eastman Chemical Company and adjunct professor at the James Quillen College of Medicine at East Tennessee State University. He has extensive experience in antioxidant and vitamin E research and has edited the widely acclaimed scientific book Antioxidant Status, Diet, Nutrition, and Health.
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