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Feeling Good
Easy Steps to Staying Healthy
- Author: Alan Maryon-Davis
- Category: Non-fiction Health
- Publisher: Age Concern
- Pub date: August 2007
- Length: 256 pages
About Feeling Good
BEING WELL is more than a handy guide to healthy living. Aimed primarily at the younger end of the older person’s market, it focuses on motivational triggers and self-help tools in ten key lifestyle areas that can have a major impact on health: diet and nutrition; physical activity; stress, relaxation and sleep; sex; smoking; drinking; drugs (including prescribed medication); oral health, skincare (including feet) and sunbathing; check-ups, male and female; and developing a positive approach to life.
Its essential message is that healthy living doesn’t have to mean an end to pleasure and enjoyment. Nor that you have to turn your life upside-down. Small changes really can make a big difference. A few, simple, very do-able steps can put you well on the path to a healthier, happier life.
Informative but accessible, with a light-hearted approach and lots of practical checklists, handy hints, aides-memoir and progress charts, BEING WELL is the essential motivator, reference guide and route-map to health rolled into a single volume. A must-have for anyone who wants to enjoy life – for longer.
About the Author
Dr Alan Maryon Davis is the author of ten popular books on health topics ranging from first aid to controlling cholesterol, and for 17 years wrote a weekly ‘Dear Doctor’ column in Woman magazine. He has been an expert guest on dozens of TV and radio programmes, was the BBC Radio 1 ‘doc’ for two years and presented his own award-winning series on heart health on BBC Radio 4. His latest book, FEELING GOOD! EASY STEPS TO STAYING HEALTHY, was the winner of the prestigious 2008 Thistlethwaite Prize awarded by the Medical Journalists’ Association. He is honorary professor in public health at Kings College London and chair of the Royal Society for Public Health.