Health & Personal Development
January 2015
Understanding Phobias; How To Look Great On Any Budget; Positive Thinking, Positive Living; Yoga and Meditation; A Guide to Diabetes; Healing Foods; Live Longer, Extend Your Life; Detox; A Guide to Headaches and Migraines; The Healthy Eating Plan; A Guide to Back Pain; Practising Reiki
SERIES SUMMARY, BOOK BY BOOK :
Title: UNDERSTANDING PHOBIAS Author: Katherine Wright
Phobia is characterised by an overwhelming fear or dread of certain objects,
animals, events or situations. It can cause severe restriction of everyday activities
and, at its worst, intense misery and suffering for the phobic person.
In spite of the fact that the experience of phobia is commonplace, phobics
themselves frequently go to great lengths to hide the existence of their condition
and do not seek treatment that would be helpful to them.
The message of this book, Understanding Phobias, is that there is a great deal that
can be done to relieve the phobia sufferer, ranging from self-help measures and
alternative therapies to psychotherapeutic treatment programmes.
Title: HOW TO LOOK GREAT ON ANY BUDGET Author: Katherine Wright
Looking good, and feeling great, is within the reach of most people as long
as they have right products, diet, attitude and discipline. Beauty is no longer
something possessed by a blessed few. Modern beauty products mean that
improving your looks is nothing like the chore it used to be, and few things put
a spring in your step like knowing that you look well-groomed, glowing with
health and dressed to impress. Many thousands of people have had surgical
procedures to enhance their breasts, lift sagging skin and tired-looking features,
and subsequently report increased happiness and confidence. But it might
not even be necessary to go that far – the answer to a fresher face and more
confident outlook could be in your beauty or hairdressing salon, bathroom
cabinet, wardrobe or even your fridge! And sometimes the answer is in your
head!
Title: POSITIVE THINKING, POSITIVE LIVING Author: Dr David Fong
A positive book bursting with useful advice and invaluable tips. Learn
where self-doubt comes from, its effects and how to banish it. Learn how
to grow from negative experiences and use them to your benefit. No
rash claims – no miracle cures – just a practical and achievable approach
to improving your life.
Title: YOGA AND MEDITATION Author: Katherine Wright
Yoga and Meditation provides a helpful introduction to the journey
towards self-enlightenment, and fitness through yoga and focus.
The book shows you clear and concise instructions for the major
positions and meditation techniques. It also gives sound practical
advice for creating a lifestyle that is conducive to inner calm. The
book shows you yoga positions through line drawings.
Title: A GUIDE TO DIABETES Author: Katherine Wright
We’ve all heard of diabetes but what does the average person
know about it? With growing numbers diagnosed with it, and
untold others suffering from it without knowing, it’s important to
be informed about this common condition.
Diabetes affects the body’s ability to process the sugar (or glucose)
that we get from the food we eat. This is caused by a problem in
the body’s production and use of a hormone called insulin.
There are two kinds of diabetes: type 1, where the body cannot
produce insulin, and type 2, where the body does not produce
enough or becomes resistant to insulin.
Both types can cause serious health problems, however, with
medication and careful attention to lifestyle, people with diabetes
can lead normal, healthy, active lives.
For anyone suffering from diabetes – or for those who feel
they may be at risk of developing it – it is important to become
informed about the condition.
This book aims to present an overview of the many aspects of
this complex disorder, to help increase understanding. Covering
symptoms and treatments, as well as dietary and lifestyle
recommendations, this is an invaluable introduction to living with
diabetes,
Title: HEALING FOODS Author: Katherine Wright
Great advances have been made in medicine and science in recent
years and there is no doubt that these advances have made,
and will continue to make, an enormous difference to people’s
health and quality of life. However, there has also been a growing
realisation that medicine does not have all the answers. When it
comes to a healthy lifestyle, there is universal agreement among
nutritionists, doctors and scientists about the importance of diet in
both the incidence and prevention of disease.
Healing Foods looks at the health-enhancing and healing properties
of a wide range of foods, helping to explain why these should be
included in our daily diet. Individual entries contain a description
of the food in question, its essential properties and health benefits,
advice on how much should be eaten and cooking methods where
appropriate.
Title: LIVE LONGER, EXTEND YOUR LIFE Author: Katherine Wright
Humankind has always been fascinated with finding an ‘elixir of life’.
This, of course, is the stuff of fantasy. However, in modern times,
new medical developments and scientific breakthroughs already
mean that successful treatments are now being used against some
of the major killer diseases of the past.
Other developments in medical science, especially in the field of
genetics, are aimed at directly tackling the ageing process itself. A
few scientists have even gone as far as to claim that future research
will eventually enable ageing to be written out of the human genome
altogether!
Live Longer, Extend Your Life explores the ways in which an ordinary
person can influence his or her own life span and health to achieve
longevity and a healthy and active old age.
Title: DETOX Author: Rosalyn Patrick
Detox outlines a plan for a healthy diet, which will enhance your
body’s natural functions. Within days you will feel refreshed, with
your energy levels increased. Your skin will become clearer, your
hair glossier and stronger, and your moods highly improved.
Contains recipes and some juice recipes.
Title: A GUIDE TO HEADACHES AND MIGRAINES Author: Katherine Wright
Explore the symptoms, causes and treatments of tension, cluster or migraine
headaches. Look at the role of complementary therapies in the treatment,
management and prevention of headaches and migraines.
Title: THE HEALTHY EATING PLAN. Author: Stella G. McGovern
This is a helpful and inspiring book as it explains how we should eat
and exercise for good health, and then gives a section for recording
your diet and exercise so you can chart your progress towards
your health goals and target weight and size.
Title: A GUIDE TO BACK PAIN Author: Katherine Wright
Back pain is a universal human experience, being an ailment that affects
most people throughout the world in one form or another at some
stage in life. It is a problem that has many ramifications, not only for
the individual sufferer but also for friends and family, the workplace,
economy and society as a whole.
The aim of this book is to provide straightforward, useful information
about the workings of the human back and the things that may go
wrong to cause pain. It also provides guidance on the alleviation and
management of such pain.
Title: PRACTISING REIKI Author: Jennie Austin
This is an updated edition of an affordable and useful book on reiki
by Jennie Austin who both writes about reiki, and practices it. Reiki
is a way of healing and cleansing your body, and this book is an
ideal introduction to a complementary therapy than can bring both
positive changes to both mental and physical health, and also help
in the process towards self-discovery.
