Contents

Nutrition Against Disease (1971)

Preface vii

Acknowledgments xi

1 The Flaw in Medical Education [see Nutrition Today*] 3

2 The Nutrition-Heredity Factor 20

3 A New Hope for Better Health 37

4 Stillborn, Deformed, and Mentally Retarded Babies 51

5 Protecting the Hearts We Have 67

6 The Fight Against Obesity [see Prevention**] 92

7 Prevention of Dental Disease 113

8 The Nutritional Approach to Arthritis and Related Disorders 122

9 How Can We Delay Old Age? 134

10 Environmental Control of Mental Disease 145

11 The Battle Against Alcoholism 164

12 How Is the Cancer Problem Related? 176

13 Food Fads 185

14 What the Food Industries Can Do New 198

15 Developments in Basic Medicine 210

Reference Notes 229

Appendix I [The Nutrient Value of Selected Foods] 303

Appendix II [A Vitamin Supplement] 308

Index 311

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* Nutrition Today, May/June 1972, 30-3 (omits about one-third of original text)

** Prevention, February 1972, 107-25