Hammersmith Health Books imprint: 45 books
Fighting Fatigue
a practical guide to managing the symptoms of CFS/ME
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This practical manual comes from a nationally recognized centre for CFS/ME and is jointly written by health professionals and their patients. They give straightforward and specific expert advice, accompanied by real life stories, on managing different aspects of everyday life that can affect energy...
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...
by Barry Groves, Joel Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Natural Health and Weight Loss explains in non-scientific language, supported by a huge body of evidence from clinical trials and population studies, what really constitutes a healthy diet, not just to prevent and cure obesity, but also to lead a long and healthy life. The author can claim to be one...
Trick and Treat
how 'healthy eating' is making us ill
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Trick and Treat asks the key quetions: has 'healthy eating' coincided with a reduction in health problems and health spending? Who benefits from the effects of 'healthy eating'? What is the evidence to support the principles of 'healthy eating'? If 'healthy eating' isn't healthy, what is? Barry Groves...
by Nat Hawes
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
The best way to ensure you and your family consume only organic, untainted and nutrient-rich foods is to grow your own herbs, fruits and vegetables. This can be done in the smallest of plots or even on a balcony, roof garden or windowsill, with a raised box or pots and other types of planters. In...
Smart Health Choices
making sense of health advice
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Smart Health Choices provides the tools for assessing health advice, whether it comes from a specialist, a general practitioner, a naturopath, the media, the internet of a friend. It shows you how to take an active role in your own healthcare, and how to make the best decisions for you and your loved ones, based on your personal preferences and the best available evidence.
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...
Beyond My Control
why the health and social care system need not have failed my mother
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
With 33 years' experience in health and social care, Suzan Collins believed she could ensure good care for her mother, and her family relied on her to do so. She was actually delivering training on best practice when she was first contacted with the news her mother had broken her leg at her nursing...
Suburban Shaman
tales from medicine's frontline
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Medicine is not just about science. It's also all about stories, and about the mingling of narratives among doctors, and between them and their patients.' So writes Cecil Helman after 27 years as a family practitioner in and around London interlaced with training and research as a medical anthropologist,...
What's Up With Your Gut?
why you bloat after eating bread and pasta… and other gut problems
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Do you get bloating when you eat pasta? Is your social life restricted by uncertainty about your bowels? Is your ability to work affected? This book will help you find out what your underlying gut problem is and understand how to make things better. With 80% of our immune system in our gut, sorting...
Hope with Eating Disorders Second Edition
a self-help guide for parents, friends and carers
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Since the first edition of Hope with Eating Disorders was published in 2012, eating disorders have become more widely recognised and treatments have progressed, as have attitudes to this most dangerous of mental health problems. In this second edition, which maintains Lynn Crilly’s warm, non-judgemental,...
by Dr Megan Arroll, PhD FHEA Cpsychol AFBPsS, Professor Christine Dancey
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Is your personal, social or work life affected by problems with your bladder? Do you brush these problems aside, as just part of life and/or getting older? Have you talked to a health professional about these problems? Have you talked to anyone about these problems? What’s Up With Your Bladder?...
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
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....