Posted by mars on February 13, 2001, at 9:52:38
Hi all ~
In my mid & late twenties I was on a serious health kick. One very helpful thing I did was educate myself about nutrition and supplements. My father is a scientist and I was raised to be very skeptical & wary of quackery, and a lot of the writers making claims about supplementation just weren't cutting it for me.
I found a writer, Dr. Shari Lieberman, who did a column for a free paper on health food & supplements. I was really impressed by her column: she was very well educated (in the traditional sense - PhD in Clinical Nutrition, etc.) about nutrition and supplements, but was more open (less "reactively" skeptical is the way I describe it) to claims being made beyond the "Recommended Daily Allowance/Intake" school of supplementation.
She has a terrific book out called "The Real Vitamin and Mineral Book", which has been recently updated. If you're just starting to read about nutrition and supplements, it's a great place to start, and an excellent reference (and nicely inexpensive).
I can't recommend the book highly enough. The information (well documented) and advice she presents allowed me to navigate a contentious area and help myself a great deal. I'm trying to get going again with working with nutrition, and was very happy to find that she had recently updated the book from its first edition.
best to all,
mars
p.s. Dr. Lieberman was briefly listed on Quack List. From what I have read about what happened, she was attacked unfairly. You can read about it at http://www.internetwks.com/pauling/quack.html. I have never used supplements developed by her (I have favorite brands I trust already), and only intend to recommend her book as a reliable source of information.
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