101 Nutrient Guide

Author: Chen Jianzhi
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: A dietary guide to 101 health-preserving and health-promoting nutrients. Comprehensively explains the basics of dietary nutrition, practical methods, nutritional therapy for diseases, dietary guidance, and life hacks for eating. Combines practicality, scientific rigor, and fun nutrition information to help you understand the functions of nutrients, absorb balanced nutrients correctly, and fully master health and conquer diseases.
Book Description: This book introduces various nutrients, including conditional nutrients (which the general population can synthesize on their own but must be supplemented through diet or special nutritional foods in special conditions such as premature infants, infants and young children, and critically ill patients due to insufficient synthesis), as well as physiologically active substances commonly found on food and health product labels, totaling 101 entries. Combined with basic nutrition concepts and practical applications, it forms this book. The information in the book is based on the observations and experiences of a frontline nutritionist, supplemented by data from relevant books, online information, journals, and academic papers. The language is kept simple, aiming to provide high school students and above with a basic scientific understanding and interest in nutrition, giving them a fundamental grasp of various nutrients. The book focuses on the physiological functions and food sources of different nutrients, with some chapters including information on related supplements. The author emphasizes that supplements are meant to compensate for dietary deficiencies—don’t think that taking supplements means you can neglect your diet. The role of nutrients should be to maintain life, enhance health, prevent diseases, and reduce "mysterious discomfort" caused by nutritional imbalances, rather than exaggerating their therapeutic effects on diseases. If you are sick, see a doctor for treatment, receive a definitive diagnosis, and let a nutritionist assist in adjusting your diet for proper nutritional support.
Eating a balanced diet is not difficult and doesn’t require a lot of money. Fresh vegetables costing a few yuan per pound in the market might be the best health food. As for the various nutritional supplements and functional foods that are currently popular in the market, they can also promote health and help the body reach its optimal condition. But the key is to use them correctly. By using this book, you can learn how to obtain balanced nutrition from food, as well as how to choose nutritional supplements and functional foods with more confidence.