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Q: Will you live to be 100? A: Probably not—but you should! Q:Do you take over 100 pounds of a dangerous "drug" each year? A: Almost certainly—in your coffee, cakes and cookies! Q:Do you drink enough milk? A: The chances are it's too much! Startling information on health, body chemistry and nutrition lends fascination to this authoritative, revealing book on how your body strives to maintain health—in spite of what you do to it! Whether you think you are healthy or know you're not, here are facts that can help you help your body work for the good health you deserve.
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Q. Will you live to be 100?
A. Probably not-but you should!
Q. Do you take over 100 pounds of a dangerous 'Drug' each year?
A. Almost certainly-in your coffee, cakes and cookies!
Q. Do you drink enough milk?
A. The chances are it's too much!
Startling information on halth, body chemistry and nutrition
Contents
Introduction: Health vs. disease
Chapter 1 Your blueprint of construction
Chapter 2 Body chemistry
Chapter 3 You and your glands
Chapter 4 Diet and nutrition
Vitamins
Minerals
Chapter 5 Menacing foods and drinks
Sugar-The curse of modern diet
Artificial sweetners
Milk-The not so perfect food
Coffee, tea, tobacco and alcohol
Chapter 6 Degenerative diseases
Chapter 7 Dental decay
Chapter 8 Marriage patterns and family life
Chapter 9 Cave-man and primitive peoples-What lessons do they teach us?
Bibliography
A. Probably not-but you should!
Q. Do you take over 100 pounds of a dangerous 'Drug' each year?
A. Almost certainly-in your coffee, cakes and cookies!
Q. Do you drink enough milk?
A. The chances are it's too much!
Startling information on halth, body chemistry and nutrition
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lends fascination to this authoritative, revealing book on how your body strives to mantain health-in spite of what you do to it! Whether you think you are healthy or know you're not, here are facts that can help you help your body work for the good health you deserve.Contents
Introduction: Health vs. disease
Chapter 1 Your blueprint of construction
Chapter 2 Body chemistry
Chapter 3 You and your glands
Chapter 4 Diet and nutrition
Vitamins
Minerals
Chapter 5 Menacing foods and drinks
Sugar-The curse of modern diet
Artificial sweetners
Milk-The not so perfect food
Coffee, tea, tobacco and alcohol
Chapter 6 Degenerative diseases
Chapter 7 Dental decay
Chapter 8 Marriage patterns and family life
Chapter 9 Cave-man and primitive peoples-What lessons do they teach us?
Bibliography
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ISBN
879830212
Publication
Keats Publishing Inc. New Canann, Connecticut