How to Live Longer and Feel Better

How to Live Longer and Feel Better introduces to a new generation of health-conscious readers Linus Pauling's regimen for healthy longevity. Eminently readable and challenging, and a New York Times bestseller when it was first published in 1986, Pauling's seminal work helped to revolutionize the way Americans think about nutrition.

Introduction to Twentieth Anniversary edition by Melinda Gormley

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How to Live Longer and Feel Better Introduction

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I The Regimen

1

(46)

1 Good Nutrition for a Good Life

3

(5)

2 A Regimen for Better Health

8

(9)

3 The Old Nutrition and the New

17

(8)

4 Proteins, Fats, Carbohydrates, and Water

25

(8)

5 Foods as the Source of Heat and Energy

33

(4)

6 Two Eating Problems

37

(10)

II The New Nutrition

47

(48)

7 How Vitamins Were Discovered

49

(9)

8 Vitamins and Evolution

58

(10)

9 Vitamins in the Body

68

(17)

10 Biochemical Individuality

85

(10)

III Orthomolecular Medicine

95

(150)

11 Orthomolecular Medicine Defined

97

(8)

12 The Immune System

105

(7)

13 The Common Cold

112

(18)

14 Influenza and Other Infectious Diseases

130

(15)

15 Wounds and Their Healing

145

(6)

16 Muscular Activity

151

(4)

17 The Heart

155

(9)

18 Cardiovascular Disease

164

(12)

19 Cancer

176

(21)

20 The Brain

197

(17)

21 The Allergies

214

(7)

22 Arthritis and Rheumatism

221

(6)

23 The Eye, the Ear, and the Mouth

227

(6)

24 Aging: Its Moderation and Delay

233

(12)

IV Vitamins and Drugs

245

(50)

25 Organized Medicine and the Vitamins

247

(13)

26 Vitamins and Drugs Compared

260

(14)

27 The Low Toxicity of Vitamins

274

(9)

28 The Side Effects of Vitamins

283

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V How to Live Longer and Feel Better

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29 A Happy Life and a Better World

297

(4)

Bibliography

301

(22)

Afterword and Annotations by Stephen Lawson, Linus Pauling Institute

323

(5)

Name Index

328

(3)

Subject Index

331

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