Modern day practical manual on taking care of your own health based on traditional natural and alternative methods.

Recent history has witnessed a revolution in womens health care. Beginning in the late 1960s, women in communities across the United States challenged medical and male control over womens health. Few people today realize the extent to which these grassroots efforts shifted power and responsibility from the medical establishment into womens hands as health care consumers, providers, and advocates. Into Our Own Hands traces the womens health care movement in the United States. Richly documented, this study is based on more than a decade of research, including interviews with leading activists; documentary material from feminist health clinics and advocacy organizations; a survey of womens health movement organizations in the early 1990s; and ethnographic fieldwork. Sandra Morgen focuses on the clinics born from this movement, as well as how the movements encounters with organized medicine, the state, and ascendant neoconservative and neoliberal political forces of the 1970s to the1980s shaped the confrontations and accomplishments in womens health care. The book also explores the impact of political struggles over race and class within the movement organizations.

For those battling autoimmune disease or thyroid conditions—or just seeking healthy life balance—the voice behind the popular blog Feed Me Phoebe shares her yearlong investigation of what truly made her well. After she was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease in her early twenties, Phoebe Lapine felt overwhelmed by her doctor’s strict protocols and confused when they directly conflicted with information on the bestseller list. After experiencing mixed results and a life of deprivation that seemed unsustainable at best, she adopted 12 of her own wellness directives—including eliminating sugar, switching to all-natural beauty products, and getting in touch with her spiritual side—to find out which lifestyle changes truly impacted her health for the better. The Wellness Project is the insightful and hilarious result of that year of exploration—part memoir and part health and wellness primer (complete with 20 healthy recipes), it’s a must-read not just for those suffering from autoimmune disease, but for anyone looking for simple ways to improve their health without sacrificing life’s pleasures.

In "Put Your Health in Your Own Hands," Bob draws on his personal experience as a physician assistant in family practice to show you many natural ways to improve your health. You will learn about your present level of health and how to overcome any obstacles that might be preventing you from reaching your health goals. By following these simple guidelines, you will learn how to convert your potential for amazing health into a reality.

Thumbs up foods are just the beginning! A fantastic book that associates each finger with foods to eat, making choices easy and fun! Cyndi Dale, author of The Subtle Body Encyclopedia Here is a must-have book for every parent trying to teach their children healthy eating habits. Lindsey Smith, author of Junk Foods & Junk Moods This book helps parents start their kids on a healthy path that will benefit them the rest of their lives. Lisa Mentgen-Gordon, CEO, Healing Touch Program The illustrations are luminous and help kids take a colorful, energetic interest in what they eat. Marla Feingold, Certified Clinical Nutritionist and Dietician

Turn On Your Energy offers practical strategies to discover and use the natural flow of electrical energy impacting you more than you ever imagined. You are constantly interacting with this energy through your thoughts, diet, exercise, social interactions and even your home’s electricity. Your body is more than dense bones and tissue. Comprehending the extent to which this flow of electrical energy is sensitive and responsive to your thoughts, diet, exercise, and even relationships will change what you think about your health and well-being. Understanding that you have control over the flow of your electrical energy will enable you to not only live but thrive. Once you learn how to release disrupted patterns or distorted rhythms of your electrical energy you will experience an increase in the flow of your energy. Realizing your body’s amazing capabilities to heal itself, will help you understand that your body is not a problem to be fixed but a miracle to be discovered. In a review by, Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D., author of several bestselling books, said: "To understand how your body's electrical fields directly impacts the quality of your life, I highly recommend this exceptionally readable and valuable book - Turn On Your Energy. It is a brief review of how electrical fields derived from thought, relationships, and diet, among other sources, influence the body and how knowledge of these fields can be used to enhance your health and well-being. Grieg's book offers knowledge of self, which translates as self-empowerment, so needed in today's chaotic world.”

What if one of the most effective tools you have to restore your health is not surgery or medications, but your own hands? Incredibly, your hands can heal you -- with the "energy medicine" of Pranic Healing. A powerful system that is rapidly increasing in popularity, Pranic Healing works with your own natural, vital energy -- which is also called prana -- to accelerate your body's innate self-healing ability. Amazingly easy to learn and apply, Pranic Healing uses a series of powerful but simple methods to generate energy, including non-touch hand movements; energetic hygiene, the practice of keeping your personal energy tank clean and full; breathing; and brief meditations. Using these unique techniques, you can identify, clear, and purify unhealthy, imbalanced energy and replace it with fresh energy that helps your body heal itself from a wide range of physical, psychological, and emotional symptoms and disorders. A self-healing guide for 24 ailments, including physical and sports injuries, chronic arthritis, irritable bowel syndrome, insomnia, hypertension, headaches, backaches, congestion and colds, menstrual cramps, even depression and stress-related disorders, is included. With step-by-step instructions, line drawings, and numerous real-life medical stories, Your Hands Can Heal You demonstrates and explains a revolutionary program that anyone can use to harness the energy of body, mind, and breath to produce health and facilitate repair. Personally trained by Grand Master Choa Kok Sui, who developed Pranic Healing, the authors, Master Co and Dr. Robins, provide the same detailed guidance in Your Hands Can Heal You as in the popular Pranic Healing workshops. Additionally, they present, for the first time in any book, the Grandmaster's special modifications to the breathing practices that can dramatically increase your power and energy and rejuvenate and balance your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual body. This exciting new mind-body heath reference proves that you can heal yourself -- with your own two hands.