The Fast - The History, Science, Philosophy, and Promise of Doing Without by John Oakes
$16.00 NZD
Category: Health | Reading Level: near fine
A fascinating exploration of the unique history and biology of fasting - a practice resurging in popularity and an essential part of many health approaches, religions and philosophies. We fast all the time, even when we're not conscious of doing so. A fast manifests the idea of holding back, resisting t ...Show more
Helping Ourselves - A Guide to Traditional Chinese Food Energetics by Daverick Leggett
$8.00 NZD
Category: Health | Reading Level: very good
Helping Ourselves is a beginners guide to nutrition according to the principles of Chinese Medicine. It is a user friendly practical guide, ideally suited to practitioners, students and clients of Chinese medicine as well as those interested more generally in nutrition. The book contains simple one page ...Show more
The Fast Diet by Michael Mosley; Mimi Spencer
$8.00 NZD
Category: Health | Reading Level: very good
IS IT POSSIBLE TO EAT WELL, MOST OF THE TIME, AND GET SLIMMER AND HEALTHIER AS YOU DO IT? WITH THE FAST DIET IT IS. This radical new approach to weight loss is the diet that everyone is talking about. It really is as simple as it sounds: you eat normally five days a week, then for just two days you cut ...Show more
The CSIRO Gut Care Guide by Michael Conlon; Pennie Taylor; Cuong Tran; Megan Rebuli
$12.00 NZD
Category: Health | Reading Level: very good
We know that the gut - in particular, our gut microbiome - plays a crucial role in our wellbeing, helping to maintain the health of our immune system, brain and metabolism. Eating the right types of foods, especially those high in dietary fibre and resistant starch, can support a healthy population of g ...Show more
The Child and His Family by Neil C Begg
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: good-very good
First edition published 1970 under title: New Zealand child and his family.
The Clever Guts Diet: How To Revolutionise Your Body From the Inside Out by Michael Mosley
$10.00 NZD
Category: Health | Reading Level: good
Your gut is astonishingly clever. It contains millions of neurons - as many as you would find in the brain of a cat - and is home to the microbiome, an army of microbes that influences your mood, weight and immune system. In this groundbreaking book, Dr Mosley takes us on a revelatory journey through th ...Show more
The Complete Book of T'ai Chi by Stewart McFarlane
$12.00 NZD
Category: Health | Reading Level: very good
A step-by-step guide to the Cheng Man-ch'ing Form, the most popular style of T'ai chi ch'uan. Covers the entire sequence of the Form with every posture illustrated in step-by-step photographs, along with pushing hands drills, exercises and applications. Footprint diagrams indicate the correct foot posit ...Show more
Renal Diet Cookbook - The Low Sodium, Low Potassium, Healthy Kidney Cookbook by Susan Zogheib
$15.00 NZD
Category: Cooking | Reading Level: very good
More Than a Kidney Cookbook: Your 28-Day Action Plan to Kick-Start a Kidney-Healthy Diet "Susan has done a masterful job in educating patients about their disease, explaining why watching your diet is important, and offering meal plans and recipes that encourage compliance and fun. - John Wigneswaran ...Show more
Manage Your Pain - Practical and Positive Ways to Adapt to Chronic Pain by Michael Nicholas; Allan Molloy; Lois Tonkin; Lee Beeston
$10.00 NZD
Category: Health | Reading Level: very good
From the experts at the Pain Management Centre at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, this book provides practical information to help sufferers to adapt to chronic pain in order to live as fulfilled and normal a life as possible.
Snake Oil Science - The truth about complementary and alternative medicine by R Barker Bausell
$16.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: very good
Every year millions of people flock to complementary and alternative therapists offering a vast array of treatments ranging from acupuncture to biofeedback to urine injections. Millions more purchase over-the-counter alternative medications, such as glucosamine, herbs, and homeopathic remedies. While co ...Show more
The Healthy Country? - A history of life & death in New Zealand by Alistair Woodward; Tony Blakely
$14.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: good-very good
In this book, Alistair Woodward and Tony Blakely tell the extraordinary story of life and death in Aotearoa New Zealand from first Maori settlement to the 21st century. Did Maori or Europeans live longer 1769? How did Pakeha New Zealanders become the healthiest, most long lived people on the face of the ...Show more
The 2 Day Diet - Diet Two Days a Week. Eat Normally for Five by Michelle Harvie; Tony Howell
$10.00 NZD
Category: Health | Reading Level: good-very good
The 2-Day Diet is the original, clinically proven 5:2 diet to get you slim and healthy, as developed by acclaimed scientists Dr Michelle Harvie and Prof Tony Howell at Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention (all author proceeds go to this charity). To reach your perfect weight, all you need to do is follow th ...Show more