How to Live Longer and Feel Better,9780870710964

How to Live Longer and Feel Better

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ISBN13: 9780870710964
ISBN10: 0870710966
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-05-01
Publisher(s): Oregon State Univ Pr
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Summary

How to Live Longer and Feel Better introduces to a new generation of health-conscious readers Linus Pauling's regimen for healthy longevity. Eminently readable and challenging, and a New York Times bestseller when it was first published in 1986, Pauling's seminal work helped to revolutionize the way Americans think about nutrition.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Twentieth Anniversary edition by Melinda Gormley vii
How to Live Longer and Feel Better Introduction xviii
I The Regimen 1(46)
1 Good Nutrition for a Good Life
3(5)
2 A Regimen for Better Health
8(9)
3 The Old Nutrition and the New
17(8)
4 Proteins, Fats, Carbohydrates, and Water
25(8)
5 Foods as the Source of Heat and Energy
33(4)
6 Two Eating Problems
37(10)
II The New Nutrition 47(48)
7 How Vitamins Were Discovered
49(9)
8 Vitamins and Evolution
58(10)
9 Vitamins in the Body
68(17)
10 Biochemical Individuality
85(10)
III Orthomolecular Medicine 95(150)
11 Orthomolecular Medicine Defined
97(8)
12 The Immune System
105(7)
13 The Common Cold
112(18)
14 Influenza and Other Infectious Diseases
130(15)
15 Wounds and Their Healing
145(6)
16 Muscular Activity
151(4)
17 The Heart
155(9)
18 Cardiovascular Disease
164(12)
19 Cancer
176(21)
20 The Brain
197(17)
21 The Allergies
214(7)
22 Arthritis and Rheumatism
221(6)
23 The Eye, the Ear, and the Mouth
227(6)
24 Aging: Its Moderation and Delay
233(12)
IV Vitamins and Drugs 245(50)
25 Organized Medicine and the Vitamins
247(13)
26 Vitamins and Drugs Compared
260(14)
27 The Low Toxicity of Vitamins
274(9)
28 The Side Effects of Vitamins
283(12)
V How to Live Longer and Feel Better 295(6)
29 A Happy Life and a Better World
297(4)
Bibliography 301(22)
Afterword and Annotations by Stephen Lawson, Linus Pauling Institute 323(5)
Name Index 328(3)
Subject Index 331

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