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A practical, illustrated guide to the exercise that is safe, appropriate and beneficial to recovery after bowel surgery and that supports the UK's National Cancer Survivorship Intiative, by an exercise professional with unique experince of working with patients after bowel cancer surgery

In this controversial, evidence-based account of how and why the health-care establishment has got the concept of 'healthy eating' so wrong, Barry Groves shows us how to take charge of our own health and lives, in contravention of what the health-care industry would have us believe and do.

Mental Health Act redefines mental disorder and removes the 'treatability' test. These and other changes have caused great controversy, but the legislation is in place there is a need to understand what it means for the individual practitioner when making decisions about the care of individual patients. This guide provided this understanding.

Chronic fatigue syndrome, or myalgic encephalitis, (CFS/ME) affects approximately 180,000 people in the UK. This title offers expert advice, accompanied by real life stories, on managing different aspects of everyday life that can affect energy and they show how to put this advice into practice.

"Natural Health and Weight Loss" talks about healthy eating. It states that true healthy eating means eating more fat and for less carbohydrate including fruit and grain.

"Playing God" presents poems about the experience of being a doctor, for both doctors and patients.

Thyroid problems are notoriously difficult to diagnose and many people suffer for years, undergoing treatments for the symptoms rather than the underlying problem. Based on many years' experience in this complex field, the author describes the practical ways in which sufferers can help themselves.

Presents stories that teach us about ourselves and our attitudes to health and illness, whether we are deliverers or recipients of health care. This book takes the reader from apartheid South Africa, where the author did his initial training to the London of the early 1970s, where he forswore medicine to become an anthropologist and poet.

A guide to the factors that precipitate Anorexia Nervosa and then sustain it and how these can be overcome, looking particularly at underlying body chemistry and the effects of short and long term starvation on health and behaviour.