Non-fiction - Healthy Living - Christchurch City Libraries
Have you always wanted to learn more about healthy living but been dissuaded by the dry calorie charts and research on fitness? These authors shed light on healthy living in a diverting way, tackling topics like exercise routines and clean eating with anecdotes, tips, tricks, and their own compelling stories. A Christchurch City Libraries list.
Written by Kiwi author and Menopause expert, Nikki Bezzant, this empowering guide helps women to embrace this often-tricky part of their life, providing them with confidence and right tools to navigate their way through it all. It delves…
A compelling and eye-opening read that examines the pervasive influence of ultra-processed foods on the health of human beings and from this, contributing to a global food crisis. Writer and doctor Dr. Van Tulleken unearths the hidden…
This cutting-edge New York Times best-selling book by renowned physician Peter Attia, presents us with a huge paradigm shift in the way we should think about aging. Drawing on the latest research in biology, medicine, and lifestyle habits,…
Journalist and fitness-enthusiast Peter Walker puts forward a straight-forward solution, "we just need to move". Offering sobering statistics and delving deeply into why modern humans are less active. Peter suggests we need to pick the…
In 2016 award winning journalist and author Isobel Hardman's "mind stopped working". She draws upon her personal experience of depression and anxiety sharing how through being active in the outdoors she overcame it. Examining research and…
Renowned food epidemiologist Tim Spector sets about busting many of the myths on what makes for a healthy diet. Traditional wisdom and modern fads such as calorie counting and most food supplements come under close scrutiny as does…
This entertaining and insightful book by biologists David Raubenheimer and Stephen Simpson journeys to all corners of the earth examining the dietary habits of various animals and insects, seeing how the natural balance they achieve…
CrossFit trainer to many of the world’s top athletes Ben Bergerson, gives us this self-motivational guide to exactly what it takes to reach the top tier of the sporting world. We’re shown the step by step processes he puts in place for his…
Psychiatrist, nutritionist and trained chef Dr Uma Naidoo pulls together her impressive background and knowledge to deliver a ground-breaking guide to eating the right foods for your mental well-being. Naidoo scrutinizes the simple but…
This highly entertaining and engaging book by evolutionary biologist, Daniel Lieberman, shatters many of the pre-conceived myths about exercise, taking a suspicious standpoint on the more extreme forms of exercise - such as triathlons and…
From famed nutritionist Dr Michael Gregar, the New York Times bestselling author of ‘How not to die’, this insightful book delves into why specific diets often don’t work, looking into the latest science in areas such as microbiome to…
Weight loss surgeon Dr Andrew Jenkinson bestows upon us his unique insight from years of treating people to put forward a more grounded, holistic and scientific viewpoint as to what impacts our weight gain, at the same time criticizing the…
This informative and potentially life-changing book by geriatrician, Dr Kate Gregorevic, attempts to give over 50s men and women practical health advice on how to avoid the sort of diseases and other health problems that impact them later…
