Start the day with an energyboosting routine, practise stress-busting exercises at your desk and create calm at the end of the day. Clear and simple, these five-minute routines are perfect anytime, anywhere!
In this practical and often humorous guide, Ian Marber, the Food Doctor, explains how our bodies work, reminds us of how unhealthy our emotional relationship with food can be, and provides simple guidelines on good nutrition. Quite simply, Ian shows us what to eat, and when, so that instead of spending our whole life on a diet, we can avoid getting fat in the first place.
New You Boot Camp is Europe’s number one weight loss, fitness and exercise retreat where you can drop a dress size in just two weeks. This book delivers the same advice as given at the camp ensuring that whoever you are, you too can benefit from the New You Boot Camp philosophy. Covering nutrition and eating plans, fitness and exercise, goal setting and motivation, this book promises to change your life.
This sassy, funny, friendly and sensible book by style guru Mimi Spencer is the ultimate feel-good, anti-diet lifestyle book for women. Offering ways to eat ways to cheat, ways to dress and what to ditch, Mimi presents 101 simple do-able things that really will make a difference to the way you look and feel about yourself - and you’ll never want to diet again!
If you struggle to get your kids, or your spouse! to eat fruit and vegetables or just want to get your family healthy, this book could be the answer. Packed full of feel-good recipes that everyone will love and tips on how to exercise as a family, as the days get longer it’s the perfect time to begin a lifestyle change!
When Myleene Klass discovered she was pregnant, her initial joy was quickly replaced by fear the moment she read her first pregnancy book. It was full of ‘don’t do this, don’t do that’ - and Myleene was terrified that she had already endangered her baby’s life. Every book she read after wards was either too technical or too fluffy - none of them described how she was really feeling, and she felt very isolated. “My Bump and Me” is about everything Myleene did ‘wrong’ during her pregnancy, how her hormones turned her into a woman she hardly recognized, and how incredible it feels to be expecting a baby. From conception to birth - via morning sickness, raging hormones, cravings, baby names, sex, sleepless nights, opinionated in-laws, ‘bump envy’, and the labor itself - Myleene offers practical advice, essential medical information, and an honest account of what’s in store for anyone with a baby on the way.
Written by best-selling women’s health expert Dr. Miriam Stoppard, this fully updated guide to the menopause should help every woman to be at her best throughout this crucial time and in the years beyond. “Why do I feel so anxious?”, “Should I have trouble remembering things?” “Is it normal to wake up drenched in sweat?” Each woman’s experience of the menopause is different, so “Menopause” looks at all the common symptoms - from tiredness to tearfulness, hot flushes to loss of libido - and the ways to alleviate them. Dr. Stoppard details the advantages and disadvantages of the full range of hormone replacement therapies (HRT) as well as beneficial complementary treatments. With her unique blend of empathy and candour, Dr. Stoppard gives essential advice on nutrition, exercise, maintaining an active sex life, controlling emotions and many more day-to-day concerns. Containing expert guidance, up-to-date medical information and self-help tips, “Menopause” should help every woman to manage her menopause in the best possible way.
The simple guide to boosting your health with herb, plant and spice extracts, “Health Boosters” reveals the medical conditions that each supplement treats and the benefits it offers, such as stress busting or energy boosting. There are clear and concise guidelines on dosage and medical precautions to ensure you know how to use the supplements responsibly and effectively. This book is all about natural supplements that are used specifically to enhance activity, cleanse the system, boost the digestion, heart, and circulation, stimulate the immune system, alter moods and increase vitality. It provides safe, natural remedies for the many life emergencies of the hectic 21st century.
Nicholas Culpeper first published over 350 years ago during the reign of Elizabeth I, the Complete Herbal by physician, herbalist and astrologer Nicholas Culpeper remains one of the most comprehensive listings of herbs and their uses in existence. In this illustrated edition, over 400 herbs are described in detail, along with their ‘government and virtues’, remedies and cautions. Culpeper’s Complete Herbal is a masterpiece of alternative medicine. With advice on treating ailments from headaches, coughs and swellings, to bad sight, kidney stones and gout, the author covers maladies great and small. Much of Culpeper’s physic is based around the ancient theory of the four humours - black bile, yellow bile, phlegm and blood - a system long disproved but which holds at its heart the idea of balance, as important to our health today as it ever was.
How does one give meaning to one’s life? How can one justify one’s existence? How does one make experience valuable, and keep growing and learning in the process - and through this learning acquire a degree of understanding of oneself and the world? A civilised society is one which never ceases debating with itself about what human life should best be. Some would say that if we want ours to be such a society we must all contribute to that discussion. In this superb collection of writing A.C. Grayling, one of our most pre-eminent philosophers, discusses some of today’s most meaningful questions and uses a series of essays to further our understanding of what is truly important if we wish to live life well.