Linus Pauling’s latest book, HOW TO LIVE LONGER AND FEEL BETTER, draws on this two-time Nobel laureate’s scientific know
232 113 4MB
English Pages 322 Year 2006
Table of contents :
CONTENTS
Introduction
I THE REGIMEN
1 Good Nutrition for a Good Life
2 A Regimen for Better Health
3 The Old Nutrition and the New
4 Proteins, Fats, Carbohydrates, and Water
5 Foods as the Source of Heat and Energy
6 Two Eating Problems
II THE NEW NUTRITION
7 How Vitamins Were Discovered
8 Vitamins and Evolution
9 Vitamins in the Body
10 Biochemical Individuality
III ORTHOMOLECULAR MEDICINE
11 Orthomolecular Medicine Defined
12 The Immune System
13 The Common Cold
14 Influenza and Other Infectious Diseases
15 Wounds and Their Healing
16 Muscular Activity
17 The Heart
18 Cardiovascular Disease
19 Cancer
20 The Brain
21 The Allergies
22 Arthritis and Rheumatism
23 The Eye, the Ear, and the Mouth
24 Aging: Its Moderation and Delay
IV VITAMINS AND DRUGS
25 Organized Medicine and the Vitamins
26 Vitamins and Drugs Compared
27 The Low Toxicity of Vitamins
28 The Side Effects of Vitamins
V HOW TO LIVE LONGER AND FEEL BETTER
29 A Happy Life and a Better World
Bibliography
About the Author