Explaining Health: What You Need To Know to Stay Healthy, Expanded Second Edition

"Explaining Health" is a handy guide to a healthy lifestyle, in an easy to read format. It describes healthy populations around the world, and explains what makes food healthy. It provides motivation for exercise, and describes T'ai Chi, Yoga, sleep hygiene, and heart health. Includes important information on the prevention of diabetes, heart disease and cancer, the physiology of stress, and techniques for stress reduction, including meditation, massage therapy and bodywork, ergonomics and guided visualization. Practical tips for dealing with muscles strains and colds and flu. Additional new chapters focus on Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda.