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Nutrients For Human Health

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Thank you Booksgosocial amd Netgalley for an ARC of this book.

This was a useful, informative collection of nutrients required in our diet to ensure healthy cell maintenance, vitality and overall good health. I enjoyed the way it was set out and the information contained.

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This book is great to help you understand how vitamins
and nutrients can keep your body healthy. I have learned
being a newly diagnosed Diabetic, that we truly are what we eat.
The book did not go into which foods you should eat. But I felt
like having the right information, I could scout out the right foods
online. I was taking notes just a few pages into it.

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It’s no surprise that eating a healthy, nutritious diet has a large impact on one’s health. Author Tracey Burke discusses the nutrients needed for cell growth, maintenance, and repair. This is an excellent, informative book for those wanting to better understand the role vitamins, minerals, lipids, proteins and trace elements play in our general health and overall well-being. It’s a well-organized, handy reference and I am so glad I picked up a copy of this book! The only thing missing was a comprehensive list of which foods contain each nutrient.

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The book can be read by a general public looking to learn about nutrients from a trusted source. The book contains an extended bibliography and includes a dictionary of nutrients including vitamins, minerals and other natural sources. I liked the way the book explains and illustrates how the nutrients are metabolized by the body and how they are important for humans.

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In the following order, the author presented a reference manual on: vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, water, fruits and vegetables. For the majority of the written prose, each of these single elements that are derived from many wonderful food sources and delivered to the human body was explained in detail. Delivered in an easy-to-read shopping list format, this reference material contains a wealth of information on nutrients.

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This is a very informative guide to human health identifying how vitamins, minerals, lipids, water, carbohydrates, and proteins affect our body's function - both in balance, excess and shortage. I would recommend this book to anyone looking to balance their diet or supplement usage, identify where health problems may be stemming from in terms of shortages of key nutrients, or are wanting to learn more about the body's nutritional needs. The writing is straight and to the point giving the book a textbook style of informative writing.

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This is an excellent encyclopaedia - style book. It isn't a commentary on current thinking of the interactions between various nutrients on the body as a whole, nor is it a 'how to look after your body' type of guide.

What you get is a deeper than average scientific breakdown of each vitamin, mineral, fat and other nutrients and how they work individually in the body.

Unfortunately I'm not in a position to corroborate many of the points made, as I'm simply not qualified to know. Although, as someone who has a working lay-knowledge much of the material made sense.

However, on that basis I don't know whether there are errors or inconsistences such as the one which appears location 872 (kindle version) where "...your body is approximately 50-55 percent water" only to read further down the page "water makes up more than two thirds of the weight of a human body".

Also current thinking on iron disregulation and magnesium deficiency is missing. But to be fair, it's a relatively short book, although I would have thought these are such critical issues that reference could have been made.

In summary this is a great easy to read reference book which is concise and to the point. No hesitation in recommending it, but it's not without its frustrations.

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