CONTENTS:- Foreword; Preface; PART One: THE WORLD WITHIN - Your body has internal mechanisms which regulate the way you act and react; There are mechanisms which enable you to adapt to changing demands; Your body can defend itself against serious threats; There are mechanisms to protect you against disease and infection; Your body can develop self-protective symptoms; There are even mechanisms to help you overrule inappropriate mechanisms! And there are mechansism which lie half-forgotten and unused... PART Two: Intervention; The interventionist approach; Blinkers can impede your vision; Doctors under the influence; Preventative programmes are unimaginative and ineffective; The hazards of interventionist medicine; Modern medicine is less effective than you may think; Patient easily become overdependent; The hazards of drug therapy; Your internal defences may be damaged; An overemphasis on treatment; Normal - an interventionist's myth?; Alternative medicines - a real alternative or a variation on a theme?; Home treatments; Interventionist medicine - conclusions; Bodypower in perspective PART Three: The Basic Principles of Bodypower - You must understand that your body isn't designed for modern living; Appreciate how your body's responses to pressure can produce illness; Learn how you respond to pressure by being aware of your own personality; You must create your own philosophy of Bodypower; Your early warning systems; Learn to relax your body; It's all in the mind; The advantages of staying active PART Four: Bodypower in Practice - You can use Bodypower to help improve your shape and maintain your health; You can use Bodypower to help you deal with specific symptoms and threats; You can use Bodypower to help improve your lifestyle; And finally... The end of the line.
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It may sound too good to be true. But it is true. There is a free, doctor-approved secret with which you can, for the rest of your life, easily conquer 9 out of 10 illnesses without spending money or seeing a doctor. Bodypower, the sensational book which hit the Sunday Times bestseller list shows how to use your bodypower to stay healthy. It also includes simple but effective tips on how to stay slim; how to improve your eye-sight; how to break bad habbits; how to relax your body and your mind; and much, much more.
