Health and Fitness

This is not just another book on stress. It explores a daring and innovative path to accessing the power of consciousness as a more effective and lasting solution to tackle stress and emotional afflictions. Rewiring the Brain is a fascinating jour...

Are we born with our fears or do we learn them? Why do our fears persist? What purpose does anxiety serve? In this Very Short Introduction we discover what anxiety is, what causes it, and how it can be treated. Looking at six major anxiety disorde...

Why do we need sleep? How much sleep is enough? What is sleep? What happens when we don't get enough? We spend about a third of our lives asleep - it plays a crucial role in our health and wellbeing. References to sleep abound in literature and ar...

Ever since the evolution of human civilization, people have developed some or the other self-defense skills. Karate is one such skill that is growing in popularity with the passing of years. But unfortunately, only few are acquainted with the true...

Compiled from select essays presented at the two-day conference on Health Policy in India by the Centre for Public Policy and Governance in July 2022, Swastha Bharat and India's National Health Policy: How far are we from Universal Access? is a st...

The new millennium has ushered in a lot of hope and enthusiasm for creation of a new life order where, besides a longer life span, human beings would be interested in quality and fullness in their lives. This would mean stress management, which is...

In view of growing complexities in today’s allopathic medical systems, the complementary alternative medicinal healing systems are gaining more acceptance, and prana healing is one of the important ones. It is a ‘no touch, no drugs’ therapy, which...

Eating a nutritious diet, taking healthy drinks, keeping hygienic environment, exercising regularly, maintaining a healthy weight, getting eight hours of sleep, taking necessary vitamins, balancing our hormones and visiting our doctor for regular ...

About the Book The perfect gift for every man over 40.-Michael Gurian ""Rich with solutions to becoming a whole man.""-Warren Farrell, Ph.D., author of Why Men Are the Way They Are ""In The Whole Man Program, Jed Diamond treads fearlessly into the...

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever you want. It is easy to carry. It can be an ideal gift to yourself and to your loved ones. Care instru...

About the Book Popularized by Michael Pollan in his best-selling In Defense of Food , Gyorgy Scrinis's concept of nutritionism refers to the reductive understanding of nutrients as the key indicators of healthy food--an approach that has dominated...

About the Book This title is a collection of tips, tricks, and tactics featuring top golfers Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Ernie Els and many more. It includes professional advice on swing and technique, covering the long and short game, putting, ge...

About the Book Steeped in archaic and narrow colonial attitudes towards people of 'unsound mind', the discourse on mental health in India, as also the public apparatus dealing with it, are rigid, exclusionary and deeply gender insensitive. Interro...

Despite India's rapid response to economic liberalization and impressive growth indicators since the 1990s, child malnutrition in the country has remained stubbornly high. Indeed, per capita calorie intake has declined, presenting a challenging sc...

Yoga is a well-established ancient Indian system that not only keeps our body, mind and soul healthy but also provides relief in various diseases, particularly in women and enhances sex power of both men and women. People are becoming more and mor...

he book tries to find out the relation between yoga and mental health which in turn relates to psychotherapy in philosophical point of view. It tries to define the concept of mind in view of philosophy of yoga and psychotherapy. It strives to sear...

It’s not possible to do less than your best. If you’re smoking, or are addicted to prescription opioids, you’re addicted for very good reasons. Smoking allays anxiety, provides social contact, fills up voids in our lives and enables us to belong t...

Highway to Health is a journey of exploration. It maximizes our own healing abilities of identifying attitudes, beliefs and opinions that impact our health. It continues the journey begun by Love Your Disease – It’s Keeping You Healthy. We learn h...

Teenagers are young boys and girls in the age group of 13 to 19. It is a transitional stage of physical and psychological development occurring between puberty and adulthood. The period of adolescence is most closely associated with the teenage ye...

From the Back CoverThis book offers a snapshot of cutting-edge applications of digital phenotyping and mobile sensing for studying human behavior and planning innovative e-healthcare interventions. The respective chapters, written by authoritative...