Currently, people are bombarded with a flood of information about health, which is largely contradictory. Often the sensations of today become the failures of tomorrow. Even more often, they try to present to the reader as today's sensations the failures of yesterday in the West, which no one remembers there anymore. Many people feel the need for modern scientifically based, reliable and common sense information, written in an accessible language. This book, written for residents of Russia and other CIS countries, meets precisely these needs. It is based on the popular American book “Health Capsules,” published in California in 1991.