RT Journal
A1 Clayman CB
T1 NUtrition almanac
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 1979
FD October 19
VO 242
IS 16
SP 1791
OP 1791
DO 10.1001/jama.1979.03300160065034
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1979.03300160065034
AB This paperback almanac is suitable for the public. It provides in simple terms and phrases a full discussion of the nutrients, their properties, use, adverse effects, and deficiency effects, as well as comments regarding their influence on certain illnesses. Some of the applications of the vitamins and minerals are at best empiric, since confirmation with controlled clinical trials is lacking. Tabulation of the interaction of vitamins and vitamins or vitamins and minerals also contains data that have not been fully confirmed or are involved with nutrients whose need in humans is not fully understood. Some of the symptoms describing various ailments are sufficiently nonspecific that misinterpretation can easily occur when the reader does not have sufficient medical background to discriminate. The tables of food and beverage composition are worthwhile, but the specific vitamin content of individual food items may be more than usually needed. Aside from the reference value of