The great potential of diet, lifestyle, and natural health products in modern health care is clouded by confusion and over-hyped marketing messages. There are now over 29,000 commercially available dietary supplements in North America, with over 4,000 ingredients alone purported to assist in weight loss.
There is a lineup of authors touting the fad diet du jour, conflicting media messages on the benefit and pitfalls of diet, and a wild west of unbridled health claims for supplements. It is not entirely surprising that consumers, patients, and health care providers alike are all craving sound, unbiased, and scientifically grounded information.
Enter trusted pharmacist Sherry Torkos, a renowned expert and talented writer who has consistently set the gold standard in health promotion literature. Like thousands of others, I have always been impressed by Sherry’s books, with their superb coverage of women’s health, emotional disorders, anti-aging interventions, and sound, scientifically based measures for the maintenance of a healthy, lean body.
It was no shock to me that Sherry would take on the Mount Everest of nutritional projects the daunting task of covering the need-to-know information regarding nutrition, lifestyle, and supplements in relation to the most common medical disorders and diseases.
In addition to the global aspects of diet and nutrients, lifestyle habits, and stress management for overall health, Sherry provides condition specific c advice on complementary interventions, dietary modifications, and key nutritional and herbal supplements all without overwhelming the reader.
The end result is the ultimate resource for consumers, patients, and health care providers. Pharmacists, doctors and patients will also appreciate the unique and detailed descriptions of the prescription drugs that can deplete vitamins and minerals.
This drug–nutrient interaction is
an underappreciated factor and a particularly important one when considering that
prescription drug usage in Canada now exceeds $20 billion.
