商品簡介
This volume reviews the current scientific knowledge regarding the nutritional and health aspects of vegetarian diets. It addresses nutrition immediately after the introduction, with eight chapters offering specific focus on protein, fats, fiber, iron, calcium and vitamin D, vitamin B12, zinc, and other vitamins and minerals. Eight chapters then address the role of vegetarianism in dealing with heart disease, cancer, hypertension, stroke, obesity, diabetes, osteoperosis, and certain digestive and kidney diseases. Remaining chapters discuss vegetarian diets and children, pregnancy and lactation, optimal nutrition for active vegetarians and vegetarian athletes, environmental and food safety aspects of vegetarian diets, planning nutritious vegetarian diets, and overall protective factors of the vegetarian diet. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Peggy Carlson, MD, is an emergency medicine physician with a background in occupational medicine.
