Family Food Nutrient Encyclopedia

Author: Pan Helin
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: Do you know that food has the "medicine in food" effect? Which foods are called "plant Viagra"? Which foods can help breast enlargement, lactation, beauty, spot removal, and hair care? Which foods can boost intelligence, fight cancer, combat viruses, and anti-aging? Which foods can improve high blood pressure and coronary heart disease? Do you know that food can also cause illness? Eating shrimp with vegetables rich in vitamin C is equivalent to consuming arsenic? Lye can destroy vitamin B1 in rice? Carrots and oranges together can cause goiter? Hawthorn is a "child-stealing killer" that leads to miscarriage in pregnant women? Eating celery continuously can reduce sperm count in men? This book teaches you about the nutrients in over 250 common household foods and their effects on human health, helping you understand many long-standing but overlooked issues in daily diet. It guides you on how to properly select and combine foods to effectively improve your physical condition (such as weight loss), enhance sub-health (such as insomnia and stress), alleviate diseases (such as iron-deficiency anemia), and find a healthy eating plan suitable for you and your family. From now on, you can stay free from both minor and serious illnesses, always full of energy! This book is collectively guided by over 20 internal medicine and traditional Chinese medicine experts and nutrition professors from institutions such as the Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, the Southern Hospital of Southern Medical University (formerly the Military Medical University), Pearl River Hospital, the Medical College of Jinan University, the Second Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Guangdong Province, the Second People's Hospital of Guangdong Province, and the General Hospital of Guangzhou Command of the Guangzhou Military Region.