Hammersmith Books Limited: 45 books
Understanding BRCA
Living with the Breast Cancer Gene
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Do you have a close relative who has died from, or is experiencing, aggressive breast, ovarian or prostate cancer? Have they been tested for the BRCA gene mutation? Have you? At the age of 35 and following the death of her mother from ovarian cancer, Clarissa Foster was found to carry a harmful mutation...
by Nat Hawes
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
In the late '80s, NASA studied houseplants as a way to purify the air in space facilities. They found a range of plants that filter out common volatile organic compounds. In the same way, these plants can help clean the indoor air here on Earth, which is typically far more polluted than outdoor air...
Get Tough with Type 2 Diabetes
Master your diabetes
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Get Tough with Type 2 Diabetes is a cutting-edge yet practical guide for newly-diagnosed and established type 2 diabetes patients and their families, by one of the UK’s leading diabetes physicians. It discusses ideas that have emerged over the past 20 years about the fundamental problems that cause...
How To Feel Differently About Food
liberation and recovery from emotional eating
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Sally Baker and Liz Hogon, informed by helping thousands of clients achieve a sustained healthy approach to eating, have researched and written How To Feel Differently About Food to break the painful cycle of yo-yo dieting and emotional eating. The book cuts a clear path through the conflicting nutritional...
The Whole Body Solution
the complete guide to ultimate health and anti-ageing
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Do you want to achieve optimal health but are confused by the many conflicting recommendations? Is there truly one solution that has only benefits, not downsides, and in turn reduces the risk of succumbing to the diseases which are so prevalent in modern society? And will this really combat the ageing...
Managing IBD
a balanced guide to inflammatory bowel disease
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is the term that includes Crohn’s disease (which can affect any part of the gut) and ulcerative colitis (which affects the colon and rectum) – two chronic auto-immune conditions that cause gut pain, weight loss, whole-body symptoms and poor digestion leading to...
Nature Cures
the A to Z of Ailments and Natural Foods
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Nat Hawes has spent 8 years researching and compiling this fascinating compendium of foods and their health-giving properties. Her sources range from scientific papers, libraries and university websites to extensive travel to research traditional approaches to healing - summarised in everyday language....
by Nat Hawes
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The roots of plants have been used as medicines and nutritious food for thousands of years. Many have astonishing properties which can heal and remedy most human ailments and diseases without the harmful side-effects of powerful medications. They should be an important part of the daily diet but most...
Overcoming Self-harm and Suicidal Thinking
A practical guide for the adolescent years
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Crisis Counsellor Liz Quish presents this practical guide for parents and others caring for young people who engage in self-harming and suicidal thinking based on her many years of working with vulnerable teenagers. Filled with insight and advice, her book offers a uniquely integrated, whole-person...
Essential Carer's Guide
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
With extensive experience of the UK's National Health Service, caring for elderly relatives, and - most recently - working for a major dementia charity, Mary Jordan has revised and updated her Essential Carer's Guide to provide the key information you need to hand when faced with caring for a relative...
by Nat Hawes
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Nature has kindly colour-coded foods for us and each colour signifies different compounds which the body needs on a regular, and often daily, basis. Many are powerful substances that can help to remedy human health issues without any of the side-effects that can be suffered with conventional medications....
Shadows in Wonderland
a hospital odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
When TV producer Clin Ludlow is admitted to hospital for an operation, he expects to be home in 10 days. In the event he ends up staying for five months, nearly dying on several occasions, and contracting MRSA. More than nine years later he is still recovering from his experiences. In Shadows in Wonderland...
The Fatigue Solution
my astonishing journey from medical write-off to marathons and mountains
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
More than 20 years ago, Health Educator and veterinary surgeon Max Tuck approached collapse with Epstein Barr virus and chronic fatigue after years of pushing herself relentlessly. Though written off as a chronic invalid by her doctor she has since run marathons and climbed mountains in addition to...
Beat Chronic Disease - The Nutrition Solution
Use Funactional Nutrition to Recover Your Health
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Fleur Brown, Functional Nutritionist for nearly 25 years, shares her experience of helping thousands of clients with chronic health problems recover their health, vitality and well-being. She shows you how to: Become your own health detective to investigate the root causes of your problems; Take charge...