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