Item category 2: Health Information Point

This is a practical guide to power walking for health and fitness, covering route planning, technique, equipment, walking in different terrains and programmes with specific goals. The programme should help you achieve health, vitality and weight-loss.

The inevitable ageing process does not have to condemn us to solitude, suffering, degradation or dependency. In this meditation on ageing, Marie de Hennezel guides us through the true art of growing old.

Claire Eastham, a twenty-something living in London and working in her dream job, has a seemingly perfect life - except for her social anxiety. Combining honest personal insights, humour and practical advice, this book explains what anxiety is, why it happens, and how to survive it.

This simple, visual symptom checker helps you check out any health problem and directs you to what it might be and what you should do.

This volume takes the reader through the major developmental stages in a child's grieving process, explaining the common types of behaviour and emotions experienced at each stage. It suggests methods for sensitively addressing the emotional needs of children and gives age-appropriate strategies.

What triggers a panic attack? How can it be avoided in future? This title explains the psychology and physiology underlying panic. It makes sense of why a sufferer is radically altered after their first panic attack, and how they come to inhabit a new world full of threats both from without and w...

For individual carers without enough support, having a loved one with dementia often remains challenging. This text looks at the practicalities and relationships.

Max Whitlock, Team GB's double Olympic gold-medallist, has spent years developing his own fitness regime. Whilst other sportsmen and women spend hours and hours in the gym, he has always focused on his core strength, employing workouts he can do anywhere, simply using his own body weight. Now, 'T...

With a practical guide featuring meal plans, an exercise program, and a program of daily meditations and affirmations, 'The Whole Brain Diet' will benefit people diagnosed with depression or anxiety, and those who just want to feel better in themselves.