Good Health in the 21st Century
Carole Hungerford
- Winner of the Science Writing Award in the 2006 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards
‘Explains what we all want to know: why we get sick, how we stay well. No snake oil, just good science and good sense.’
Kate Grenville'An extremely user-friendly and empowering guidebook.'
(Nexus)'Dr Carole Hungerford is to be congratulated on doing a brilliant job in producing an authoritative book that clearly explains the true cause of the ever-increasing numbers of people diagnosed with the Western World diseases ... Her easy to read style combines well referenced detail on the importance of macro and micro nutrients, and of diet and lifestyle in the positive outcome of many diseases. Dr Hungerford has an anthology style of writing that is not only very appealing, but helps both the medical professional and the lay person easily relate to her compelling points of view.'
Ian Dettman PhD (Journal of the Australian College of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine)Western nations are worried about the problems of an ageing population. But if we take into account the health trends in younger generations we arrive at a frightening prediction: for the first time in history, we have produced a generation which may not outlive its parents.
Like a growing number of doctors throughout the developed world, general practitioner Carole Hungerford became concerned about these trends, and began to question a health industry based on a model of ‘curing disease’.
The result is Good Health in the 21st Century, an encyclopaedic health guide that provides an extraordinary amount of easily understood information and a radically different way of maintaining well-being. Rejecting the routine cocktails of medication, with their complicated interactions and side effects, Dr Hungerford shows how to provide a chance for minerals, vitamins, and essential fatty acids to do their health-giving work.
The subjects covered in Good Health in the 21st Century include asthma, arthritis, cancer, obesity, and cardiovascular disease, mental health and neurological disorders; hormone-replacement therapy and vaccination; and macronutrients and minerals, vitamins, and essential fatty acids.
This monumental work will be used by parents, patients, and doctors for years to come.
Carole Hungerford
Dr Carole Hungerford became a general practitioner in 1975. After working for five years in London she has shared her time during the last fifteen years between her rural practice in Bathurst, New South Wales, and her inner-city practice in Sydney. She has helped educate young graduates for the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, and she is also a fellow of the Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine.
Extent: 528pp
Size: 234mm x 180mm
ISBN (10): 1920769 811
ISBN (13): 9781920769819
RRP: $49.95
Pub date: May 2006
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Rights sold:World English excl. ANZ and South Africa (Marion Boyars Publishers)
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