magnesium, the nutrient that could change your life
Subtitle: Must reading if you value good health!
Series: Prevention/Pyramid - N-1880
Publisher: Pyramid Books, Pyramid Publications - division of Pyramid Communications, Inc.
Published: 1975
Place of publication: 444 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780515018806
Description: What is magnesium?
What foods contain magnesium?
How can you be sure that your diet is rich in this essential metabolic nutrient?

J. I. Rodale, founder and editor of *Prevention* magazine, has helped thousands find better health and peace of mind through his nutritional programs of natural foods for health. Now, he discusses one of the least understood and most neglected of nutrients - magnesium.

Discover the importance of magnesium to your heart, your kidneys, and other vital organs...how it promotes a healthy nervous system...insures stronger bones and teeth...strikes a happy medium between depression and over-activity in glandular functions...and which some doctors believe might be prevent or control such conditions as epilepsy, polio, kidney stones, alcoholism, enlarged prostate.
Notes: How this essential nutrient can benefit you by:
 - Helping vital organs function
 - Keeping nerves and glands healthy
 - Contributing to emotional stability
 - Perhaps even protecting against some of the dread killers of mankind!
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Chapter 1. The Miracle Mineral; title: Chapter 2. Magnesium and Cancer; title: Chapter 3. Heart Action Is Aided; title: Chapter 4. The Blood; title: Chapter 5. A Treatment for Polio; title: Chapter 6. The Health of the Nerves; title: Chapter 7. Epilepsy; title: Chapter 8. The Mineral of life; title: Chapter 9. How to Eat Enough Magnesium; title: Chapter 10. Magnesium for Strong Teeth; title: Chapter 11. Bone Meal and Dolomite; title: Chapter 12. Cholesterol; title: Chapter 13. The Prostate; title: Chapter 14. Alcoholism; title: Chapter 15. Magnesium Fights Osteoporosis; title: Chapter 16. Kidney Stones; title: Chapter 17. Magnesium's Effect on Body Odors; title: Chapter 18. Some Letters; title: Chapter 19. Suicide and the Magnesium Deficit; title: Chapter 20. The National Magnesium Deficiency; title: Index