The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vitamins and Minerals

Health claims surrounding nutritional supplements regularly make headlines. This comprehensive guide features up-to-date research on vitamins, minerals and supplements, and teaches the health conscious to assess their needs. Important information on the basic functions, benefits, and risks of today's hottest supplements are discussed so that readers learn to live healthier, safely. Quick and easy strategies show readers how to purchase and store vitamins properly as well as understand which drugs, foods, and other items can block the body's absorption of vitamins.. Expert advice cautions readers about myths, false 'cures,' and other quackery.