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Our Bodies, Ourselves : A new edition for a new era (35th anniversary edition, 2005) order quantity
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NZ$ 55.00 each
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Author: The Boston Women's Health Book Collective
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One of the best-selling book on all aspects of women's health

With more than four million copies sold, Our Bodies, Ourselves is "the" classic resource that women of all ages can turn to for information about every aspect of their well-being.

Completely revised for the first time in a decade, these pages give women everything they need for making key decisions about their health -- from definitive information from today's leading experts to personal stories from other women just like them. This updated edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves includes the latest on:

- Nutrition and exercise

- Relationships, sexuality, and sexual health

- Complementary health practices

- Reproductive choices, pregnancy, and childbearing

- Growing older

- Medical testing and procedures

Together with its companion website (www.ourbodiesourselves.org), "Our Bodies, Ourselves" is a one-stop resource for women of all ... more


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365 Ways to Get a Good Night's Sleep order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Ronald L. Kotler
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This book will provide readers with 365 tips to sleep better every night of the year. Covering the importance of a consistent bedtime routine, exercise, diet, bedroom decor and atmosphere, bedding, anxiety, and medical issues, this book will be an all-in-one guide to help readers get a good night's sleep. "365 Ways to Get a Good Night's Sleep" not only covers the biological causes of sleep deprivation, but it also covers the emotional and psychological reasons that we can't sleep. Because getting a good night's sleep is a process that starts long before our heads hit the pillow, this book discusses common mistakes we make throughout the day that can affect our sleep negatively.

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Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking Kit (2 audio-CDs Included) order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Allen Carr
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Over 12,000 copies of this unique package have already sold in the UK alone. Now the kit has been brought right up to date with the inclusion of two CDs.

In 1983, after countless failed attempts to cure his own addiction to nicotine, Allen Carr discovered his unique system: The Easy Way to Stop Smoking. Since giving up a successful career as an accountant to help cure the world's smokers, he has built a global reputation and network of clinics. Including an understanding of why you smoke and why it can be so difficult to give up, the book and CD set offer a complete system to allow smokers to finish that last cigarette - and to quit for good.

Includes two audio-CDs with inspirational tips from the author. Running time 100 minutes.

This package first published October 2002.


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Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking Kit (Includes 2 CDs) order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
Mixed-media pack
Author: Allen Carr
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Allen Carr is recognized as the world's leading expert on helping smokers to quit. This kit combines an updated version of his internationally best-selling Easy Way to Stop Smoking with two CDs of Allen himself giving you all the expertise and support you'll need to become a happy non-smoker for the rest of your life.

Allen's unique method has enabled millions of smokers to stop easily, painlessly and permanently. It works without the need for willpower by removing the feeling of deprivation. There are no scare tactics and you won't gain weight.

"I was exhilarated by a new sense of freedom." --The Independent

CD running time - 100 minutes

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Breathe to Succeed order quantity
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author: Tania Clifton-Smith
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We can literally breathe our way to a successful life and boost our health by learning simple breathing techniques.

Awareness of our breathing patterns and muscular tension are the most powerful tools we have as individuals to control our thought patterns, our physiological state, our whole being.

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Grow Your Own Drugs : A Year with James Wong order quantity
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NZ$ 45.00 each
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Author: James Wong
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James Wong is back, putting his ethnobotanical expertise to use once again, with over 100 new, natural, cheap and easy remedies, showing you and those around you how to have a fantastically healthy year. Whether you're fed up with your hormones, worried about your baby's nappy rash, your partner is prone to a sore-throat, or leg-waxing is proving just too expensive to maintain, Grow Your Own Drugs: A Year With James Wong offers over 100 great new remedies to soothe all manner of common conditions and beauty problems - whenever they might flare up. James shows how easy it to have access to the right ingredients whatever the weather, with his easy-to follow seasonal focus - whether you've got a window box, a roof terrace, a country garden (or a computer to order the goods online!). His seasonal planner takes you right through from Spring to Winter, making sure you know what to plant when, the best time to harvest and how to create your ... more

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Hyperventilation Syndrome : Breathing pattern disorders (revised edition 2006) order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Dinah Bradley
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First published 1991; this revised edition 2006.

Do you sometimes experience panicky feelings for no apparent reason? Do you experience tingling sensations in your lips or fingertips - or both? Do you frequently feel 'spaced out' or find it hard to concentrate at work? Do you sometimes feel breathless for no apparent reason? Have you ever been accused of being a hypochondriac? Has your self-confidence taken a nose dive? If so, you are not alone. 12% of the population suffer from hyperventilation syndrome in varying degrees and experience distressing fears along with the puzzling array of symptoms that accompany bad breathing. This new expanded and updated edition contains a workbook section to help the reader identify how their stress levels, sleep and symptom patterns interrelate with each other.

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Just an Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure : A modern guide to healthful living from the originator of the Blood-Type Diet order quantity
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author: James L D'Adamo with Allan Richards
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Dr. James D'Adamo burst onto the world of natural medicine in the 1970s with his revolutionary discovery of, and approach to, healing based on a person's blood type. In this fascinating book, Dr D'Adamo exhorts us to take responsibility for our own health and prevent chronic degenerative diseases using his newest discoveries, which he has used to treat more than 50,000 patients. He explains which foods and exercises are right for each of us, what assets and liabilities we're born with, and how our minds can work to better process information. This book contains Dr D'Adamo's most up-to-date and comprehensive teachings; and includes recipes, exercise regimens, and a panoply of natural therapies he recommends to the patients at his institute. Having great health isn't solely a matter of healing after symptoms arise, but in reducing the possibility of them happening at all. With Dr D'Adamo's advice, you could find yourself feeling ... more

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Losing My Voice! Living with motor neurone disease order quantity
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NZ$ 39.99 each
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Author: Barbara Frances Williams
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DOP 2008, Auckland
softcover

One year after moving from Auckland to Sydney to start a new career Barbara is diagnosed with motor neurone desease, an incurable, degenerative, terminal condition. Once diagnosed with motor neurone disease, there is currently no hope of a cure. The best one can hope for is to slow the progression. People may react in different ways to the diagnosis of motor neurone disease. They can devote themselves to fighting the disease, they can try to live as fully as they can or they can give up. Barbara, elder daughter of the redoubtable Sir Robert Muldoon - a heritage of courage under fire - chooses to live life as fully as she can while she is able to.Losing My Voice! is not only a "cannot put down" story, but a very poignant milestone in understanding the human tragedy of this cruelest of diseases. It will have significant impact on sufferers and their loved ones, worldwide.

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The Sjogren's Syndrome Survival Guide order quantity
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NZ$ 39.99 each
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Author: Teri Rumpf and Katherine Morland Hammitt
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Little is known in the medical community about Sjogren's (pronounced show-grins) syndrome, although it is statistically the most prevalent autoimmune disorder in the US, afflicting some 2 to 4 million people, the majority of whom are women. Sufferers often spend years going from specialist to specialist before being properly diagnosed.

This debilitating illness, in which the body's immune system mistakenly attacks its own moisture producing glands, results in dry eyes and dry mouth, and dryness of the skin, nose, and vagina. It can also affect the kidneys, GI tract, blood vessels, lung, liver, pancreas, and the central nervous system. This is the first and only book to provide a specific program of self-help strategies for sufferers.

Authors Teri Rumpf and Kathy Hammitt are both Sjogren's sufferers. Their book offers you the most current medical information about Sjogren's along with an in-depth explanation of the disorder, ... more

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Understanding Sjogren's Syndrome order quantity
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NZ$ 43.00 each
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Author: Sue Dauphin
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An estimated 36 million Americans have some form of arthritis. Of those, more than 4 million are thought to have Sjogren's Syndrome, though most have never been diagnosed. This important, best-selling book on the "sneaky arthritis" is easily read and understood. It helps identify those often misdiagnosed symptoms and offers advice for proper diagnosis and treatment.

"Very well written, informative, accurate, very valuable for patients, nurses and general practitioners". -- Dr. H.M. Moutsopoulos, Athens, Greece


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Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: The Complete Guide to Women's Health and Wellbeing (Revised Edition 2009) order quantity
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NZ$ 65.00 each
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Author: Christiane Northrup
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Dr Christiane Northrup's vision of mind-body wellness has received an extraordinary response from women all over the world. A massive international bestseller, Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom powerfully demonstrates that when women change the basic conditions of their lives that lead to health problems, they heal faster, more completely, and with far fewer medical interventions. This groundbreaking book offers the most up-to-date information available on every aspect of women's health. Dr Northrup explains the workings of the female body in an accessible and intimate way and guides you through a comprehensive list of women's conditions and concerns, from fibroids and menstruation to pregnancy, hysterectomy and the menopause. She also shows you how to heal yourself by listening to your body's own wisdom or intuition. Filled with dramatic case histories, it is contemporary medicine at its best, combining new technologies with ... more

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About Face : Look and Feel 10 Years Younger - Naturally order quantity
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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Author: Kim Morrison & Fleur Whelligan (photography Suzanne Hall)
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A beautiful contemporary book on skin care, and how to age beautifully, with an emphasis on holistic health and the use of natural ('green') products.
Aimed at the modern busy woman (all ages) but blokes can sneak a peek at it too.
Topics covered include:
Green is the New Black;
Ageing Gracefully;
Handling Stress;
What is Your Beauty Personality;
Exercise and Nutrition for Good Skin;
Green Alternatives to Cosmetic Surgery;
Beauty Sleep;
Aromatherapy;
Herbal Therapy;
Haircare and makeup;
the Home Spa for Busy Bodies.

Treatments are outlined, depending on the time available - these range from a 5-minute emergency repair, to a full 28-day skin makeover.

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A Carer's Guide: Alzheimer's & Dementia order quantity
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Author: R. Teitel
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A heartfelt sharing of the experience of caring for someone you love throughout their debilitating and progressive illness. This practical guide includes medical and legal information as well as advice on how to cope.

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A Delicate Balance: Living Successfully with Chronic Illness order quantity
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Author: Susan Milstrey Wells
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A sensitive, hopeful exploration of maximizing your quality of life while living with chronic illness.. Chronic physical illnesses-such as lupus, Sjogren's syndrome, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, inflammatory bowel disorders, Lyme disease, interstitial cystitis, multiple sclerosis-take their toll on every aspect of a person's life. Though millions of people manage to cook, care for children, or work despite their disability, they do so with fatigue, pain, and the grinding uncertainty of living with chronic illness.A thoughtful exploration of this experience, A Delicate Balance provides both up-to-date practical advice and inspiration for the millions of Americans who struggle daily against chronic illness. From locating a suitable health-care provider and making sense of the powerful emotions that accompany chronic illness, to seeking accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act and applying for Social Security ... more

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Ageless order quantity
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Author: Suzanne Somers
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What if you could really feel better as you get older, or age without illness? What could be better than having your doctor tell you that you have the bones of a twenty-year-old, or the heart of a thirty-year-old? Follow the advice in Ageless, and you'll discover your own internal fountain of youth In this #1 "New York Times" bestseller, Suzanne Somers reveals the secrets to a younger, healthier, and sexier you. Jam-packed with updated information on bioidentical hormone replacement and antiaging, "Ageless" will change your life forever. Suzanne talks about: - Antiaging medicine and how it can help work against the environmental assault that is making us sick - Menopause, which can become an enjoyable passage once the body is in perfect hormonal sync with bioidentical hormone replacement therapy - Why so many hysterectomies are unnecessary, how birth control pills may have contributed to the rise of them, and how to restore your body ... more

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Ageless Body, Timeless Mind (10th Anniversary Edition) order quantity
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Author: Deepak Chopra
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Few people are better qualified than Deepak Chopra to show us the extent to which the reshaping of the aging process is within our control. Ageless Body, Timeless Mind has been a huge bestseller around the world.

It combines lucid theory, case studies and a wealth of practical exercises to demonstrate the innate intelligence of the mind/body processes and the extent to which sickness and aging are created by nothing more than gaps in our self-knowledge. By increasing this self-knowledge, we can master simple yet effective ways to metabolise time, and so achieve our unbound potential.


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A Gift of Stories: Discovering How to Deal with Mental Illness order quantity
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Author: Julie Leibrich (Editor)
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The life stories in this book are by people who, at some point in their lives, have been diagnosed with a mental illness which they have learned to deal with. They have found the courage to speak publicly about their experience in a world which is still prejudiced against people with mental illness.
The book is a source of inspiration for anyone with mental illness and their family and friends, a unique teaching tool for people working in the mental health area, and a way of opening doors on mental illness and letting in some light, for us all.

Stories from
Toby Adams, John, Susan Butler, Denise, Susie Crooks, Pat Cumming, Lynda Delamore, Graham Johnson, Julie Leibrich, Willie Lyden, Kathryn McNeil, Robert Miller, Mary O'Hagan, Sarah Pokoati, Patte Randal, Vince Reidy, Jonathan Rodgers, Alasdair Russell, Terry Stewart, Susan Tawhai, and Tessa Thompson.

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Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking (3rd revised edition 2004) ~ order quantity
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Author: Allen Carr
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Reading this book is all you need to give up smoking. You can even smoke while you read. There are no scare tactics, you will not gain weight and stopping will not feel like deprivation. If you want to kick the habit then go for it.

Allen Carr has helped million sof people become happy non-smokers. His unique method removes your psychological dependence on cigarettes and literally sets you free.
Includes CD of introduction read by the author.

First published 1985; this 3rd edition with new introduction and CD 2006)

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Allen Carr's Illustrated Easyway to Stop Smoking order quantity
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Author: Allen Carr
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A smoker’s guide to just how easy it is to quit

Here are the essentials of the EasyWay method in a humourous, illustrated format.
The humour adds a touch of levity to an otherwise serious subject.
This version is aimed at readers who have failed with the classic Easyway text.

 
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