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Simple nutritional advice for beating the most common diseases and living longer.

Packed with over 1100 photographs, diagrams and illustrations, specially commissioned to teach essential first-aid techniques and show symptoms clearly. How to cope and care in an emergency - from splints, simple bandages and slings to resuscitation and life-saving technique, all shown in easy steps.

Die Banting-oplossing, in samewerking met die Noakes-stigting en die “Eet Beter, Suid-Afrika!” - inisiatief, is nou beskikbaar in ’n gebruikersvriendelike sakpas-formaat! Hierdie gebruikersvriendelike boekie bevat al die wenke en raad wat jy nodig het om jou Banting-leefstyl suksesvol te implementeer en om daarmee vol te hou.

Cooking with fewer or no carbs need not be boring or bland. Ine Reynierse, author of the best-selling Low Carb is Lekker, has made it her mission to bring back normal dishes to the LCHF menu. Her unique dough recipes mean that you can start enjoying bread, muffins, doughnuts, nachos, pizza, vetkoek and koeksisters again – but now without the carbs!

This publication is an important contribution to the documentation of medicinal plant use by the Basotho. It contains a comprehensive list of known medicinal plants, their up-to-date scientific names, their vernacular names, as well as their uses.

The UK's only fully authorized first aid guide is packed with step-by-step first aid advice, from emergency first aid and first aid for babies and children, to the latest guidelines on resuscitation, helping a drowning casualty, and snake bites.

First Aid Manual is endorsed by St John Ambulance, St Andrew's First Aid, the British Red Cross, and is used as the official training manual for the UK's leading first aid organisations' courses.

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A groundbreaking, indispensable guide for understanding, diagnosing, and treating one of the most discussed (but little understood) health conditions: leaky gut syndrome.

For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mortal. So here is a book about the modern experience of mortality - about what it's like to get old and die, how medicine has changed this and how it hasn't, where our ideas about death have gone wro

Jy het kanker! 'n Ystervuis beklem jou hart wanneer jy die diagnose hoor. Na die skok en ontkenning kom die vrae: Wat gaan nou met my gebeur? Wat is my oorlewingskans?

Aimed at those who strive for optimal long-term health and the maximal functioning of their hearts and minds, Living Longer sifts through the often conflicting information available on the vast number of possible health promotion changes, isolating five key steps which will promote long-term health benefits for the heart and mind.

This book describes the problems that epilepsy can cause for women such as during menstruation, pregnancy, childbearing and the menopause. It offers practical advice on the symptoms, diagnosis and management of epilepsy, providing an invaluable resource that enables women to take control of their health and to cope with their condition.