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Informed by helping hundreds of clients achieve a sustained healthy approach to eating, the authors help you to break the painful cycle of yo-yo dieting and emotional eating, cutting a clear path through conflicting nutritional information to reveal the best way to enhance mood, boost energy and stop cravings.

Fleur Brown, Functional Nutritionist, shares her experience of helping thousands of clients recover their health, vitality and well-being. She shows you how to: investigate the root causes of your health problems; take charge of your health holistically; regain your wellbeing and live a full life without pain or excessive fatigue

Medical herbalist Susan Koten explains in detail in a step-by-step approach how to detect and treat this common but under-recognised parasite, Giardia, using natural herbal medicine

A practical guide to growing plants with specific health benefits in a garden, however small, or in tubs or on a window sill. Nat Hawes gives an A to Z of healing vegetables, with their specific health benefits, together with natural ways to feed plants and to fight pests.

Do you get bloating when you eat pasta? Is your social life restricted by uncertainty about your bowels? Is your work affected? This book will help you find out what your underlying gut problem is and understand how to make things better. With 80% of our immune system in our gut, sorting out digestive problems is essential to good health.

The Dementia Whisperer draws on many years of experience to show how she has learned to communicate with sufferers and find the essence of the person hiding behind the symptoms of dementia. Her honesty in describing the highs and lows of being a carer is an inspiration to all those struggling to find the positive side of this frightening illness.

A practical guide to the latest understanding of this embarrassing, 'invisible' condition - what causes it, why it is controversial, and how to combat it with self-help, medical treatments, psychological support and alternative therapies.

Dr Myhill explains the root causes of the growing epidemic of diabetes and how, with the right approach to diet and lifestyle, type 2 diabetes can be not only prevented, but reversed, and type 1 can be greatly ameliorated. Understanding and working with the body's natural mechanisms for balancing blood sugar is the key.

Are you constantly exhausted? Does sleep not refresh you? Is your balance not what it was? Do you have tingling/burning in your fingers and toes? Then your problem may be vitamin B12 deficiency. So just take B12? Unfortunately it is not as simple as that; this book will tell you why, and how to tackle diagnosis, treatment and lifelong symptoms.

Mary Jordan, author of The Essential Carer's Guide, explains what you can expect when you receive a diagnosis of one of the many causes of dementia and what you can do to manage life going forward - how you can slow the progress of symptoms and how you can maximise available support.

A practical guide for parents, teachers, youth workers and others caring for and working with teenagers/young adults who engage in self-harming and have suicidal thoughts - or even attempt suicide. It includes many tips on how to support vulnerable teenagers and increase their self-esteem and resilience

Dr Myhill brings together her years of experience in ecological medicine to provide a person-centred, sustainable alternative to conventional medicine's focus on individual symptoms and unsustainable poly-pharmacy. She empowers her readers to take charge of their own health.

Why and how to combine the benefits and wonderful flavours of the Mediterranean diet with the principles of the Zone lifestyle to stop weight gain, free yourself from inflammation, reverse diabetes, protect yourself from Alzheimer's, lighten your mood and leave behind the diet-and-exercise trap forever.

Martyn Hooper, the founder of the Pernicious Anaemia Society, brings together vital information about vitamin B12 deficiency and pernicious anaemia together with real-life stories, that will help sufferers and their friends and families recognize the condition and understand how best to tackle it.

Are overeating and staying over-weight unconscious 'survival decisions' for you or someone you care about? If they are, no matter how many tried-and-tested diets you follow, you will not succeed. Therapists Sally Baker and Liz Hogon offer this practical guide to understanding the emotional reasons for overeating and how to overcome them.

John Mansfield shares the secrets of what causes weight gain and how to tackle the consequences: individual food sensitivities; low-calorie dieting; low-fat dieting; refined carbohyrdrates and hyperinsulinaemia; overgrowth of gut yeasts; underactive thyroid. He empowers readers to build their own programme for successful weight loss.