Item category 2: Health Information Point

Christine Bryden was diagnosed with dementia at the age of 46. This book relates her experiences of living with the condition, exploring the effects of memory problems, loss of independence, difficulties in communication and the exhaustion of coping with simple tasks.

This guide to the menopause cuts through the conflicting and confusing information available to give the latest proven medical advice. It offers expert help on the symptoms, stages and side effects and offers ideas for maintaining a healthy lifestyle, diet and exercise regime.

This self-help programme, which has been evaluated in a randomised controlled trial, provides detailed step-by-step advice for dealing with eating difficulties.

Most of us are familiar with the 'five portions of fruit and veg' guideline, although it is not always easy to convice children of the benefits. This book looks at how parents can ensure that their children are receiving the correct levels of nutrition, as well as providing tasty recipes that are...

Offering down-to-earth advice for men on how to maintain a healthy weight, this book includes tried-and-tested methods on how to lose excess pounds.

This practical self-help handbook reveals myriad ways to help you conquer insomnia. It follows a holistic health programme of simple but highly effective methods that not only promote quality sleep, but also promote general well-being.

In 2003, Dr Carolyn Kaelin, one of America's top female breast health specialists, discovered that she had breast cancer. Here she combines her medical expertise with her personal experience and those of her patients to provide women with the most complete guide available on treatments and afterc...

Helping readers to overcome longstanding and disabling conditions, both psychological and physical, this work provides a clinically proven self-help approach to pain management based on the authors' work with sufferers at Bradford Hospital.

Therapists Dr David Veale and Robert Willson provide a step-by-step self-help approach to overcoming the condition, helping individuals to break free from the destructive cycle of obsessive behaviour and regain control of their lives.