Big Fat Lies

If you read no other book on diet, read this one. It might just save your life. Written by Hannah Sutter – who, being a lawyer by training, is free from the taint of any association with the diet industry – it takes a refreshingly beady eyed look at the government’s claims and failings on the subject of our diet.

Vitamins

Vitamins: Get Some Down Your Neck. A vitamin is an organic compound required as a nutrient by humans. Thirteen vitamins are presently universally recognized. Vitamins have various biochemical functions. Some have hormone-like functions as regulators of mineral metabolism, like vitamin D, or regulate cell and tissue growth and differentiation like vitamin A. Others are antioxidants, [...]