Eat Your Vitamins by Mascha Davis

Eat Your Vitamins by Mascha Davis ISBN-13: 9781507211359 Paperback: 208 pages Publisher: Adams Media Released: January 21st 2020

Source: ebook review copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Book Description, Modified from Goodreads:
The A-to-Z guide to essential vitamins, minerals, and nutrients, so you can ditch synthetic supplements and promote health naturally with nourishing foods. Vitamins and minerals are the building blocks of good health. The accepted solution is to take supplements created in a lab, but the dosage and interactions can be confusing, and supplements are loosely regulated and not always foolproof, especially since our bodies are designed to receive nutrients from natural, whole foods.

Eat Your Vitamins features fifty key vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients essential to your health. You will find clear definitions of each nutrient along with the role it plays in the body, how it is best consumed and absorbed, recommended daily doses, and detailed lists of foods and natural sources that contain the vitamin along with a recipe for a nutrient-rich meal.


My Review:
Eat Your Vitamins is about vitamins and minerals. The author listed 43 entries covering essential vitamins and minerals as well as things like amino acids, antioxidants, cobalt, fiber, omega 3s, water, and sleep. She started with a brief explanation of why you should get your vitamins and minerals from food rather than synthetic supplements. However, the rest of the book focused more on information about the vitamins and minerals rather than the food. Each entry talked about what that nutrient does in your body, the signs of deficiency, how much you need, if you can get too much, and listed about 9 to 13 food sources high in that nutrient. She also included a recipe using foods high in that nutrient. Overall, I'd recommend this book to someone wanting to know more about vitamins and minerals. However, it did not contain very extensive information on what foods to eat to meet your needs.

I should also mention that when she talked about choline, she repeated a recommendation that is not based off of studies (which she admits) but which suggests everyone needs to eat an egg a day (which is not true). I'd recommend that you look up Dr. Greger's videos at nutritionfacts.org about choline as you can get an unhealthy amount of it.


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