Galen, the personal physician of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, wrote what was long regarded as the definitive guide to a healthy diet, and profoundly influenced medical thought for centuries. Based on his theory of the four humours, these works describe the effects on health of a vast range of foods including lettuce, lard, peaches and hyacinths. This book makes all his texts on food available in English for the first time, and provides many captivating insights into the ancient understanding of food and health.

Fun Challenge Series

Burn Off- Wai Lana's fun yoga routine uses time-tested postures to burn off calories, toxins, and fat. These asanas will also strengthen and reshape your body, giving you an aerobic workout without the wear and tear. Upside Down- Wai Lana reveals the secrets of the sages with yoga's inverted postures. This is a perfectly balanced workout of right side up and upside down asanas for your body, giving you vibrant health, a strong body, and a peaceful mind. Firming- Wai Lana will help you firm your entire body while guiding you through yoga's classic postures. Regular practice of these firming poses will give you a strong and flexible body with well-defined muscles.

The ultimate tool for mobile vegetarians, vegans and travelers looking for a good, healthy meal. Over 1,000 restaurants are described, with hundreds featured in great detail and reviewed using the unique Artichoke Trail rating system. Food stores and markets serving the vegetarian community are also listed, as well as facts and interesting tidbits that health-minded individuals will appreciate. You'll find everything from hamburger joints with a superb garden burger option to gourmet raw food restaurants that adhere to strict vegan standards.

Risky Foods, Safer Choices confirms what many people may have suspected - the incidence of food poisoning is on the rise. Triggering such public suspicions has been an ongoing procession of horror incidents involving such foods as salami, oysters, pork rolls, fruit salad and even orange juice that have resulted in the serious illness and even death of consumers. Risky Foods, Safer Choices helps consumers avoid the possibly tragic consequences of food poisoning. Its focus is on relatively short-term health effects of good food selection rather than longer-term health effects.

Professor Lacey is an internationally renowned microbiologist and World Health Organisation adviser. In Poison on a Plate he demonstrates how the pursuit of profits by business and a lack of protection from the government has threatened the safety of eating. He also offers advice on how to eat safely.

More than half of America's processed grocery products - from cornflakes to diet drinks - contain gene-altered ingredients. Dinner at the New Gene Café lays out the battle lines of the impending collision between a powerful but unproved technology and a gathering resistance from people worried about the safety of genetic change.

Relaxation Workout

Yoga is one form of exercise that anyone can do. It has become increasingly popular in recent years, and with good reason. Yoga is widely recognized as a scientific method to stretch, tone, strengthen, and relax your entire body, inside and out, rewarding practitioners with glowing good health. Yoga asanas are safe and effective for people of all ages. This Relaxation Workout leads you through exercises that will loosen up your muscles, leaving you relaxed and refreshed. In addition you will: learn to let go of stress, massage your entire spine, increase flexibility in your elbow and shoulder joints, and strengthen your thighs, abdominals, and lower back. The Relaxation Workout will help you relieve tension with gentle bending and twisting, accompanied by coordinated breathing. And the musical meditation ending the session is just the thing to soothe your jangled nerves.