Nutrition Optimization for Health and Longevity

Download or read book Nutrition Optimization for Health and Longevity written by Herbert Zeng and published by Herbert Zeng. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to live longer with optimum health? Do you want to know how to achieve longevity through nutrition optimization? In Nutrition Optimization for Health and Longevity, Dr. Herbert Zeng teaches you how to optimize what you breathe, drink, and eat to meet your body's needs. In particular, it instructs you how to optimize the nutrition of the foods you eat to satisfy your daily energy and nutrition requirements using a step-by-step procedure. From the optimization point of view, you can eat any kinds of food, but they must be in the right amounts, with the right combinations, in the right time (age) in order to satisfy your daily energy and nutrition requirements. In addition, Dr. Zeng presents some very useful knowledge including two theories of aging and disease to help you understand why you need nutrition, and what kinds and amounts of nutrients you require. It explains why nutrition optimization can help improve your health and prolong your longevity, whether you are a normal weight, overweight or obese, have diabetes, or Alzheimer's disease. This unique book also summarizes ORAC, Oxygen Radical Absorption Capacity, and energy and nutrition values of selected foods that can meet our needs.