The Vitamin Book

by Rich Wentzler

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385153503
• ISBN13: 9780385153508
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Outstanding Vitamin Book-a must have!

THE VITAMIN BOOK BY RICH WENTZLER is probably the best, most informative, well written and fabulously entertaing health book on human physiology ever written. I originally bought this book in paperback over twenty years ago and have referred to it a zillion times over the years to keep myself in gear of a healthy lifestyle and fixing myself when necessary to do so. I just bought the hardcover since my old paperback version busted apart with wonderful use. This author Rich Wentzler is quite funny too. He explains how our bodies run, keeping you giggling, and lists all the foods that we can get each and every vitamin from. I love this book so much that I think it should be required for all highschool students to own and read and refer to for a lifetime. It is that great.

A Vitamin book that's fun to read

This Vitamin Book is actually entertaining and humerous, while at sthe same time very informative. Besides that, it is also easy to understand. I would highly recomment it for anyone- even children 10 years and up will enjoy this one! It would be an excellent book for health class, except, it has one flaw- the binding doesn't hold together well - at least for my edition from 1980.

One of a kind

This book is a unique one in that it not only brings detailed scientific info on every vitamin, mineral, trace element and essential nutrient, it also brings at the end of each section a very useful and detailed table for each nutrient to show what are the best food sources for each item. For example, the table on vitamin C lists over 70 food sources for the vitamin, and gives the amounts (in mg / 100 gr food) of the vitamin in each source. The book brings the same type of table for each and every nutrient. These tables are excellent references as they list almost every food source for almost every nutrient. You cannot go wrong with such an ultimate source of data. I wish a newer, more updated version of this piece of art was available. Haim Gamliel, MD, PhD Professor of Medicine & Nutrition