To maintain good health you need to provide your body with more than 30 vitamins, minerals and other compounds that it cannot manufacture. Do you consume enough of all of them? <br> Many experts do not think so. Their theory is that the typical diet of modern societies, deficient in certain vitamins and minerals, could be related to the current high prevalence of some current chronic diseases. But is that true? <br> • Can deficiencies in these nutrients make us sick? <br> • When should we turn to multivitamin supplements? <br> <br> The author addresses these issues, based on the novelties provided by science. <br> She will give you the keys to get the right amounts of vitamins and minerals and optimize your health. <br> “A small oasis in the arid territory of so many miracle and/or fashionable diets, false promises and 'rigorous' studies”. <br> <br> To maintain good health, you must provide your body with more than 30 vitamins, minerals and other compounds that it cannot manufacture. Do you consume enough of all of them? <br> <br> Many experts do not think so. Their theory is that the typical diet of modern societies, deficient in certain minerals and vitamins, could be related to the high prevalence of some current chronic diseases. But is that true? <br> <br> • Can the deficiencies or shortages of these nutrients make us sick? <br> • When should we resort to multivitamin supplements? <br> <br> The author addresses these issues, based on the novelties provided by science. She will give you the keys to get the right amounts of vitamins and minerals and optimize your health. <br> You will learn how vitamins and minerals differ, which vitamins should be replaced every few days and which ones your body can store and release as you need them. <br> You will understand why there is a debate about the recommended amounts and why more is not always better. <br> <br> Includes specialized sections <br> <br> • How can I improve my diet <br> • What other factors of my lifestyle can I improve? <br> • Foods rich in the scarcest minerals and vitamins in the diet <br> <br> Written in a very intimate tone, it is useful for any reader who seeks to improve his or her health, prevent diseases, and get away from myths and pseudoscience. <br> <br> Index: <br> VITAMINS AND MINERALS <br> • A discovery that changed human health <br> • Vitamins: those almost magical substances <br> • The latest discoveries <br> • What are vitamins useful for? <br> • Minerals: our inalterable body component <br> • What are minerals useful for? <br> <br> SOURCES OF VITAMINS AND MINERALS <br> • Surprising data: where we get vitamins and minerals <br> • We are not what we eat, but rather what we make use of <br> • The purpose of a plant is not our survival, but rather its own <br> • The micronutrient content of plants varies greatly <br> • How vitamins are lost from foods <br> <br> IS IT NORMAL TO HAVE DEFICIENCIES IN VITAMINS AND MINER...
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<p>YOU must rise early in the morning," said Dame Louhi, the Wise Woman of the North. She stood at the door of her chamber and looked back into the low-raftered hall where her daughter was spinning. Her face was wrinkled and grim, her thin lips were puckered over her toothless mouth, her gray-green eyes sparkled beneath her shaggy eyebrows. </p> <br> <p><br>She paused and listened. No answer came from her busy daughter. The day was almost ended. Already the swallows were asleep under the eaves, the reindeer were lying down in their paddock, all the underlings of Dame Louhi's household had retired to rest. So near was her dwelling to the sea that she could hear the waves lapping on the beach and the ice-floes crunching and grinding and pounding against the shore. But other sounds there were none.</p>
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<p>ONE of the best things to be said of the stories in this volume is that, although they are not biographical, they are about real persons who actually lived and performed their parts in the great drama of the world's history. Some of these persons were more famous than others, yet all have left enduring "footprints on the sands of time" and their names will not cease to be remembered. <br> <br>In each of the stories there is a basis of truth and an ethical lesson which cannot fail to have a wholesome influence; and each possesses elements of interest which, it is believed, will go far towards proving the fallibility of the doctrine that children find delight only in tales of the imaginative and unreal. The fact that there are a few more than fifty famous people mentioned in the volume may be credited to the author's wish to give good measure. <br> <br><strong>SAVING THE BIRDS </strong><br>ONE day in spring four men were riding on horseback along a country road. These men were lawyers, and they were going to the next town to attend court. <br>There had been a rain, and the ground was very soft. Water was dripping from the trees, and the grass was wet. <br>The four lawyers rode along, one behind another; for the pathway was narrow, and the mud on each side of it was deep. They rode slowly, and talked and laughed and were very jolly. <br>As they were passing through a grove of small trees, they heard a great fluttering over their heads and a feeble chirping in the grass by the roadside. </p> <br> <p><br>"Stith! stith! stith!" came from the leafy branches above them. <br>"Cheep! cheep! cheep!" came from the wet grass. <br>"What is the matter here?" asked the first lawyer, whose name was Speed. <br>"Oh, it's only some old robins!" said the second lawyer, whose name was Hardin. "The storm has blown two of the little ones out of the nest. They are too young to fly, and the mother bird is making a great fuss about it." <br>"What a pity! They'll die down there in the grass," said the third lawyer, whose name I forget. <br>"Oh, well! They're nothing but birds," said Mr. Hardin. "Why should we bother?" </p> <br> <p><br>"Yes, why should we?" said Mr. Speed. <br>The three men, as they passed, looked down and saw the little birds fluttering in the cold, wet grass. They saw the mother robin flying about, and crying to her mate. <br>Then they rode on, talking and laughing as before. In a few minutes they had forgotten about the birds. <br>But the fourth lawyer, whose name was Abraham Lincoln, stopped. He got down from his horse and very gently took the little ones up in his big warm hands.</p>
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A wonderful love story from our time, ispired by a real story. <br> Spirituality and romance, humor, charming descriptions. <br> Selena, the protaginist of the story, is 23 years old and she bored by her office life and dailylife in general. She decides to take an acting class, where she meets famous people, one of these is Mihai, a famous actor. He ask her to play in a movie with him. During the practices, they fall in love. During the trip with all the people from the acting class, they have a night full of passion. Other stuff happen...but you have to discover them! Enjoy one of the most romantic love story from our time! <br> <br> PUBLISHER: TEKTIME
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Monica Valentini is a 24-year-old young woman, who has a terrible accident and becomes a ghost. While she's in the middle of life and afterlife, an archangel gives her a pendant so that she can pretend to be mortal, with only one condition: she will have fulfill a mission; however, Monica does not accomplish it to the letter and ends up falling in love with Christopher, a 27-year-old young man who will make her feel as if she were still alive. This is a work full of fiction, drama and romance. <br> <br> Monica Valentini is a 24-year-old young woman, who has a terrible accident and becomes a ghost. While she's in the middle of life and afterlife, an archangel gives her a pendant so that she can pretend to be mortal, with only one condition: she will have fulfill a mission; however, Monica does not accomplish it to the letter and ends up falling in love with Christopher, a 27-year-old young man who will make her feel as if she were still alive. This is a work full of fiction, drama and romance. <br> <br> When I was young, I used to imagine that I would die being an old lady with the love of my life next to me, a marriage with my children, the life that you believe is ideal and dream of, but… what if something in your life happens that makes you change the way you think, the way you believe existence is? Though, I have to admit, when my life changed unexpectedly, a new one began, and made me see how is it that life and death are not so different from each other as I used to think. <br> <br> <br> <br> PUBLISHER: TEKTIME
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<b>Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life and career of Franklin D. Roosevelt in next to no time with this concise guide.</b> <br> <b><br></b>50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the life and political career of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States. When Roosevelt was first elected in 1932, the USA was in the midst of the Great Depression, a major economic crisis. Thanks to a series of progressive, interventionist measures known collectively as the New Deal, the new president was able to set the economy on the path to recovery and drastically reduce unemployment. He also steered his country through the Second World War and played a crucial role in the establishment of the postwar world order, notably through his contribution to the creation of the United Nations. <br> <b><br>In just 50 minutes you will:</b> <br>• Find out about Roosevelt’s political career, from his days as governor of the state of New York to his four terms as president <br>• Understand the main programmes of the New Deal and their impact on the American economy <br>• Learn about Roosevelt’s leadership during the Second World War and find out how he contributed to the peace process <br> <br> <b>ABOUT 50MINUTES.COM | History & Culture</b> <br>50MINUTES.COM will enable you to quickly understand the main events, people, conflicts and discoveries from world history that have shaped the world we live in today. Our publications present the key information on a wide variety of topics in a quick and accessible way that is guaranteed to save you time on your journey of discovery. <br>
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<p>THE romance entitled "The Achievements of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote de la Mancha," was originally written in Spanish by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It was published in two parts, the first in 1605 and the second in 1615—now just about three hundred years ago. Among the great books of the world it holds a permanent place. It has been translated into every language of Europe, even Turkish and Slavonic. It has been published in numberless editions. It has been read and enjoyed by men of the most diverse tastes and conditions. <br> <br>The story is so simple that every one can understand it, and yet it has in it so much wisdom that the wisest may derive pleasure from it. It touches the sen-se of humor in every heart. It moves to pity rather than ridicule, and to tears as well as laughter. And herein lies its chief claim to greatness, that it seems to have been written not for one country nor for one age alone, but to give delight to all mankind. "It is our joyfullest modern book." <br> <br>In its original form, however, it is a bulky work, dismaying the present-day reader by its vastness. For it fills more than a thousand closely printed pages, and the story itself is interrupted and encumbered by episodes and tedious passages which are no longer interesting and which we have no time to read. The person who would get at the kernel of this famous book and know something of its plan and its literary worth, must either struggle through many pages of tiresome details and unnecessary digressions, or he must resort to much ingenious skipping. In these days of many books and hasty reading, it is scarcely possible that any person should read the whole of Don Quixote in its original form. And yet no scholar can afford to be ignorant of a work so famous and so enjoyable. <br> <br>These considerations have led to the preparation of the present small volume. It is not so much an ab-ridgment of the great book by Cervantes as it is a rewriting of some of its most interesting parts. While very much of the work has necessarily been omitted, the various adventures are so related as to form a continuous narrative; and in every way an effort is made to give a clear idea of the manner and content of the original. Although Cervantes certainly had no thought of writing a story for children, there are many passages in Don Quixote which appeal particularly to young readers; and it is hoped that this adaptation of such passages will serve a useful purpose in awakening a desire to become further acquainted with that great world's classic..</p>
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<p>THERE are numerous time-honored stories which have become so incorporated into the literature and thought of our race that a knowledge of them is an indispensable part of one's education. These stories are of several different classes. To one class belong the popular fairy tales which have delighted untold generations of children, and will continue to delight them to the end of time. To another class belong the limited number of fables that have come down to us through many channels frorn hoar antiquity. To a third belong the charming stories of olden times that are derived from the literatures of ancient peoples, such as the Greeks and the Hebrews. A fourth class includes the half-legendary tales of a distinctly later origin, which have for their subjects certain romantic episodes in the lives of well-known heroes and famous men, or in the history of a people. <br> <br>It is to this last class that most of the fifty stories contained in the present volume belong. As a matter of course, some of these stories are better known, and therefore more famous, than others. Some have a slight historical value; some are useful as giving point to certain great moral truths; others are products solely of the fancy, and are intended only to amuse. Some are derived from very ancient sources, and are current in the literature of many lands; some have come to us through the ballads and folk tales of the English people.</p>
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