An A-Z guide to safe and healthy eating. Based on the collective wisdom of more than 300 experts in nutrition as well as in orthodox and natural medicine, this book provides a simple but authoritative A-Z guide to foods and ailments, giving practical advice on how to improve and protect your health. It covers everything from additives and allergies to yoghurt and zinc, and also explains how to ensure that you have a balanced diet. This book looks at traditional cures and at natural remedies. It examines statements such as feed a cold, starve a fever and chips are bad for you - and shows that some are based on myth rather than fact. The daily Recommended Dietary intakes (RDIs) referred to in this book are based on the recommendations in the tables published by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC). Information on the nutritional composition of foods is based wherever possible on the data in The Composition of Foods: Australia published by the National Food Authority (NFA) (now the Australia New Zealand Food Authority). Cross references, printed in small capital letters, guide you to related entries. At the back of the book, a glossary explains unfamiliar terms. Published by: Readers Digest, 1997. ISBN: 0-86449-025-9 260x205mm. H/C. 400 well illustrated pages Very good condition