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Vitamins, Herbs & Nutritional Supplements

Learn about nutrition, vitamins, herbs, and supplements. Discover how food influences health and the importance of macronutrients and micronutrients in maintaining body functions and homeostasis.

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Vitamins, Herbs & Nutritional Supplements

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  1. Vitamins, Herbs & Nutritional Supplements By Amber Blair Kaplan University

  2. What is Nutrition? • A process which includes taking in food, ingesting the nutrients it contains and effectively using them for energy, build and repair the body, support life and maintain homeostasis. • Macronutrients: Carbohydrates, fats, proteins • Micronutrients: Vitamins and minerals

  3. What is Your Body Telling You?

  4. Vitamins

  5. Herbs Click here for a list of common herbs

  6. Nutritional Supplements Click here for the Dietary Supplement Label Database

  7. More Information “Let food by thy medicine” - Hippocrates Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle Mosby’s Handbook of Herbs & Natural Supplements by Linda Skidmore-Roth The Iodine Crisis: What You Don’t Know About Iodine Can Wreck Your Life by Lynne Farrow

  8. Summary

  9. References Office of Dietary Supplements. (2011a, June 24). Botanical Dietary Supplements. Retrieved from https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/BotanicalBackground-HealthProfessional/ Office of Dietary Supplements. (2011b, June 24). Dietary Supplements. Retrieved from https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/DietarySupplements-HealthProfessional/ Schlenker, E. D., & Roth, S. L. (2011). Williams' essentials of nutrition and diet therapy. St. Louis, MO: Elsevier/Mosby. Smith, R. (2004, January 24). “Let food be thy medicine...”. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC318470/ U.S. National Library of Medicine. (2017, September 21). Herbal Medicine. Retrieved from https://medlineplus.gov/herbalmedicine.html

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