CATALOGUES - Health - Health & Psychology - General Wellness

Addressing the childhood obesity crisis that is facing today's youth, this simple and effective guide to exercise and nutrition provides a comprehensive plan for encouraging children to live healthier, more active lifestyles. Not limited to diet alone, this guide examines the psychology behind sports and how parents can help to positively encourage their children to participate. Reducing the use of technology, keeping healthy sleep patterns, minimising snacking, and staying hydrated are topics also addressed in this handbook, which... read more

Looking at health from a holistic, multidimensional perspective, this reference seeks to provide a spiritual foundation for well-being that supplements traditional medical- and alternative-healing models. By exploring the concepts of health and disease from the inside out and breaking down the process into simple precepts that can be implemented at no cost, the guide presents techniques and practices that develop a greater awareness of the factors that impact health. An analysis of eight spiritual principles that serve as a basis f... read more

"The Tao of Nutrition" provides information on making every meal therapeutic, teaching you how to make appropriate food choices for your ailments, your constitution, and the season of the year. This ancient knowledge from China provides guidance for the seasoned practitioner, as well as the new student of healthy living. By balancing your energies, the body heals itself. Balance is the key to health.

In Deep Medicine, surgeon and holistic health pioneer William Stewart explains the mind-body connection and shows readers how they can tap into the healing power of their inner wisdom to actualize their health goals.

This breakthrough book introduces acceptance and awareness of one's eating behaviours, new exercises steeped in Buddhist practices for healing unhealthy eating patterns, and a means for restoring tranquillity to meals. The author presents readers with the four foundations of mindful eating - mindfulness of the mind, the body, the feelings, and the thoughts. She does not encourage a diet of deprivation, but instead provides a checklist for the wide variety of mindless eating approaches, which include fasting, dieting, and restrictin... read more

Nutritionist and international educator Sonia Gaemi offers women this step-by-step programme of food solutions to support their hormonal systems. Readers will learn how food choices can increase metabolism, balance blood sugar and insulin, and cleanse the body of toxins. The programme stresses food choices rich in antioxidants and phytohormones that can boost the immune system, reduce stress, and slow the effects of aging.

Founded on the philosophy that working out should be a pleasant experience, this uplifting and instructional manual teaches how to get in shape through personalised health plans that combine exercise, simple nutritional advice, and important diet secrets. Emphasising the importance of self-love and positive self-reinforcement, this health handbook covers such topics as healthy shopping, how to debunk and decipher food labels, and how to combine foods effectively to ensure ample energy and minimum hunger throughout the day. Each exe... read more

PACE is the only doctor-designed program proven to help you reclaim a young, lean and effortlessly energetic body in as little as twelve minutes - guaranteed! PACE is a growing revolution. It's already practised by thousands of people in dozens of countries around the world. PACE overturns years of failed ideas and exercise advice. PACE upends current exercise trends by revealing their flaws and offering a more effective, more natural way of moving our bodies. This book will show you how to replace the flawed and ineffective theori... read more

A sport physiotherapist and physical trainer outlines a customizable program to strengthen core muscles, enhance flexibility, prevent chronic back and neck pain, and keep the body flexible and strong for a lifetime.

There are millions of people go to the doctor each year seeking a cure for persistent feelings of fatigue, something researchers believe is linked to modern living and its accompanying stress, unhealthy eating habits, sedentary lifestyle, depression, and anxiety. As experts in both cognitive-behavioral psychology and oriental medicine, the authors are well versed in the body-mind connection and its relationship to stores of energy. Readers are given energy-enhancing techniques from both schools of thought that get rid of tension an... read more

Dietician, chef, and food therapist Sonia Gaemi guides the reader through the steps of keeping a food diary to lose weight, cleanse the body of toxins, and prevent or relieve symptoms rooted in unhealthy eating.

"There Is a Cure for Diabetes" presents a breakthrough concept of reversing the negative genetic expression of diabetes to a physiology of health and well-being. This is accomplished by resetting the genetic expression of a person's DNA through green juice fasting and a 100 per cent organic, nutrient-dense, vegan, low-glycemic, low-insulin-scoring, and high-mineral diet of living foods in the first 21 days. Regardless of how long people have been on insulin, this approach usually frees them from insulin and all other anti-diabetic ... read more

"With this book, Gabriel Cousens, MD, takes his place among the world's leading physician-healers. A synthesis of his thirty-five years of clinical experience, "There Is a Cure for Diabetes" presents a practical, comprehensive, and highly effective holistic approach for treating and curing one of our most common diseases. It is the greatest contribution to the treatment of diabetes I've encountered in the forty years since I began my medical training."
--Dr. Rob Ivker, DO, ABHM, co-founder and past president of the American Board of Holistic Medicine and author of..read more