Health & Beauty

Examines the relationship HIV / AIDS has with education in different international contexts, from Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, the USA, UK, and the Caribbean. This title draws on the international research in numerous countries, including Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe, the USA and the Caribbean.

This four-week programme is designed to banish tiredness and lethargy. In four steps, the programme helps readers discover mental and physical energy and vitality and tackles aspects of life from health and fitness to self-esteem. Advice is given on how to relax, exercise and eat to improve energy.

A guide on how to adopt a stress-free low-fat lifestyle, this book provides over 150 recipes to suit every occasion. The author deals with all the common concerns such as what to eat in restaurants and at parties and what to put in sandwiches, there are also tips on maintaining the regime.

This book brings into focus a topic that has been overlooked in the scholarship on reproduction and will be of interest to professionals and expectant parents alike.

Fitness expert Suzy Clarkson uses her own experiences of childbirth at 38 and 45 to present a comprehensive fitness guide for pregnant women through each trimester and after the birth. Fully illustrated, it is practical, positive and full of helpful advice, and is endorsed by leading experts in obstetrics and fertility.

1001 Little Beauty Miracles offers short, simple ways to improve and maintain your natural good looks.

But now, nine years later and ten sizes smaller, she has discovered that changing your body doesn't automatically change how you feel about it.

Navel Gazing is a funny, passionate and no-holds-barred memoir of one woman's quest to accept her own body image - to feel normal.

In nearly every medical-decision-making encounter, the physician is atthe center of the discussion, with the patient the recipient of the physician'sdecisions. Dr. Robert Alan McNutt starts from an opposite premise: thepatient should be at the center. McNutt challenges the physician-directed,medical-expertise ...

First published in 1873, this book rejects any notion that beauty of the physical body should be treated with indifference for fear of moral corruption, and sets out to celebrate beauty and to teach women how to achieve and retain it.

Short guides let you grasp the essentials in less than an hour!

A practical guide to the depression suffered by many women both during pregnancy and after the baby is born, with advice on identifying the symptoms and seeking the right help, for both women and their partners.

Let Jessica Irvine show you how to take off weight and - just as importantly - keep it off.

A remarkable investigation into the world of Bikram Yoga, by turns shocking, hilarious and enlightening.

Do you want more energy, vitality and zest? Are you ready to become your happiest, healthiest, most vibrant self ever, so you can really enjoy the best years of your life? If so, you need to be healthy in body and mind and this book will show you how to: set clear goals for your health and happiness; ...

As life expectancy increases in India, the number of people living with dementia will also rise. Yet little is known about how people in India cope with dementia, how relationships and identities change through illness and loss.

An essential resource for those in search of the body beautiful, this book tackles every question the layman might have and also considers alternative options to surgery.

India has expressed its commitment to improving the quality of its population through a large number of policies and programmes, which have highlighted the need for a healthy, educated, skilled and employed population. Additionally, legislative measures in the area of sexual and reproductive health, ...

This book analyses the often-complex factors that influence weight gain, from our hormonal make-up to our eating psychology. Full of evidence-based research and real-life case histories, it gives intelligent advice on what to do when confronted with the need to tackle your health, or that of your child.

A light, entertaining and slightly irreverent romp through the history of the drug.

Speaking to behavioral scientists and industry experts, yo-yo dieters and people who have gone under the knife, the author builds a picture of an obesogenic society - one where we're constantly bombarded by the twin evils of big budget food marketing and the diet industry.