The Vitamin E Factor: The Miraculous Antioxidant for the Prevention and Treatment of Heart Disease, Cancer, and Aging [Paperback]

Andreas Papas (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 23, 1999

It is too early to conclude that vitamin E has all the beneficial effects attributed to it, but even if only 25% of current expectations were to be fulfilled, vitamin E would become an important weapon against a range of chronic diseases.

The book is not simply scientific and education but also a please to read.Dimitrios Trichopoulos, MDVincent L. Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention and Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Research supports the contention that vitamin E appears to help prevent heart disease, boost the immune system, slow down Alzheimer's disease, decrease the risk of prostate cancer, keep HIV from developing into full-blown AIDS, and enhance male fertility--and this is just the beginning of the list of benefits, says author Andreas M. Papas. But it isn't enough to pop a multivitamin pill. You need to understand what form of the nutrient is best for you, and how much. Vitamin E is really eight different compounds. Synthetic supplements contain only one (alpha-tocopherol), while the whole "family" is important and can be found only in some natural supplements. The Vitamin E Factor decodes all this and shows you how to develop a personalized strategy for getting the most from this nutrient. This book contains everything you could want to know about this "master antioxidant" and "super nutrient" and a few items you didn't know you wanted to know--its discovery, the origin of the name alpha-tocopherol, anecdotes from its history, and elephant research, for example. If you're a chemistry buff, special sections explain and illustrate the science of vitamin E. If you just want the basics, some of the book will be more technical than you want, but each chapter has helpful "straight talk" and/or "recommendations" that summarize the major points clearly. --Joan Price

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... a very readable, comprehensive and practical book on vitamin E that does not compromise on scientific facts. Anyone interested in understanding the practical health benefits of vitamin E (and antioxidants in general) should read this book. -- Bill Stone, Ph.D., Professor of Pediatric Research, East Tennessee State University

... an excellent job. The book is easy to read and entertaining and supported by extensive literature. It will be useful not only for the general public but also for anyone interested in the role of vitamin E in health and nutrition. -- Nesrin Kartal Ozer, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Marmara University, Istanbul, TURKEY

... excellent reference book for all scientific questions in connection with vitamin E and which an interested lay person might be eager to know more about.

Thanks to the bibliography detailed in every chapter, it is quite easy for the interested reader to become more engaged in the in-depth scientific aspects of the vitamin E factor. Additionally, all this makes Andreas M. Papas' book a kind of encyclopedia for people with an interest in the vitamin E research. -- Dr. Juergen Reimann, Chairman, HERMES Institute for Health Research, Munich, GERMANY

Dr. Papas has a unique gift of being able to take very complex scientific information and express it in ways that can be very understanding to the general reader...

The Vitamin E Factor is a book that should be on the bookshelves of all individuals who are "nutrition savvy" and interested in using the best of the latest scientific information to improve their health and that of their loved ones.

I strongly recommend The Vitamin E Factor as a trusted resource in implementing a health protection program using antioxidant nutrition as a part of the program. -- Jeffrey S. Bland, Ph.D., CEO, HealthComm International, Inc.

Dr. Papas is more qualified than any one else to write about The Vitamin E Factor having been personally involved in many of the recent studies. Physicians, nutritionists, dietitians, the informed public and persons in marketing will find the book most informative. -- Artemis P. Simopoulos, M.D., President, The Center for Genetics, Nutrition and Health

Dr. Papas' superior presentation of tocotrienols to the nation will have a major impact on the therapeutic use of nutrition into the 21st century. We heartily recommend Dr. Papas' book to all of our nutritionally savvy listeners. Cardiology will take notice as the use of tocotrienols is destined to have a positive effect for all patients who wish to prevent and treat heart disease. -- The Hosts of Here's To Your Health radio show Deborah A. Ray, M.T. (ASCP) and Donald J. Carrow, M.D.

I can only most heartily recommend finding the time to read The Vitamin E Factor and digest the multitude of useful suggestions that it contains. Practicing physicians who have to deal with nutritional problems related to diseases they treat, such as diabetes and atherosclerosis, should find this book particularly useful as a quick reference source. -- Marvin L. Bierenbaum, M.D., Director, Kenneth L. Jordan Heart Foundation and Research Center

The Vitamin E Factor has a very valuable scientific content presented with the lightness of a fairy-tale. It covers, in a comprehensive way, the most modern areas of research on vitamin E, from the basic science to applied nutrition. However it is never confusing, since its graphic presentation allows the readers to choose and capture what is interesting to them.

I recommend the book to my colleagues, to all my students and also to my family. -- Angelo Azzi, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Bern, SWITZERLAND

The book is well-written, comprehensive, and gives enough details for a non-medical person to understand the wonders of this natural antioxidant. My father, a noted cardiologist, believes that he would not be alive today without four agents - one of them being vitamin E. Dr. Papas' effort to bring this information on the effects of vitamin E to the general public needs to be extoled. -- Jason Mehta is the high school student featured in the INTRODUCTION of this book

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Product Details

• Paperback: 395 pages
• Publisher: HarperCollins; 1st Ediiton edition (June 23, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060984430
• ISBN-13: 978-0060984434
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #559,165 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars should be named:the! vitamin e book!, May 24, 2000

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eyal - newman - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Vitamin E Factor: The Miraculous Antioxidant for the Prevention and Treatment of Heart Disease, Cancer, and Aging (Paperback)

this book is simply the best on this subject!.it discover all the types of vitamin e:the first 4 polimers and the other 4 polimers known as tocotrienols,but the main issue remains the potent d-alpha tocopherol.absobtion is very important and it is discovered in details including ways to improve it.how vitamin e operates in immunity,and in autoimmune diseases such as:cancer,aids, arthritis, and also asthma,and inflamation.there is also a superb outstanding chapter that showing new researches with a great promise about neurological diseases such as: altzheimer,huntington,parkinson,lou- gehrig's disease,heart disease cataracts,macular degeneration, and other diseases are discovered and explain not only the mechanisms of disease, but also how the vitamin e is operate in those diseases and suggested approximate doses recommandations. diabetes,crohn- disease ,cystic- fibrosis, and many other diseases and illnesses are well explained very simply.as a orthomolecular nutritionist that do treats those dd (degenerative- diseases)wich actually are ortomolecular diseases because they have a vitamin and or mineral dependency because of a bad genes, and or submolecular nutrient\s, i can tell you that the knoledge that represent in this wonderful book is very much scientific and it is very valuable. i realy think that this book concerning vitamin e is the vitamin e bible!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The author is a very skilled and balanced teacher, July 3, 2000

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John R Andersen - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Vitamin E Factor: The Miraculous Antioxidant for the Prevention and Treatment of Heart Disease, Cancer, and Aging (Paperback)

This is one of the best books I have ever read. The author is a fantastic teacher. He is able telling complex things so everybody can understand it. He is also very balanced in his teachings. If you are looking for a book about vitamin E, there are no better alternative.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great science in plain English, August 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Vitamin E Factor: The Miraculous Antioxidant for the Prevention and Treatment of Heart Disease, Cancer, and Aging (Paperback)

I love this book. In my job I need technical and reference information. I find it in the Appendix, the sections for "chemistry buffs" and its the many scientific and Internet references. I use the book not only to learn about vitamin E, but also to get background information on nutrition, diet, aging, exercise and many diseases. I find it in plain English and is fun to read, full of real life stories and, something you do not find in health books, real humor.