Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Health and Wellbeing

Retired dental surgeon Charles Eugster rekindled a love of competitive rowing he'd neglected for most of his adult life at the age of 63. He took up bodybuilding at the age of 87. And at the age of 95 he started sprinting for the first time in his life, becoming World Champion at 200m indoor and ...

From autism to allergies, ADHD to long Covid, more people are being labelled with medical conditions than ever before. But can a diagnosis do us more harm than good? The boundaries between sickness and health are being redrawn. Mental health categories are shifting and expanding all the time, rad...

Utilizing her linguistic insights and sociological explorations, the best-selling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult delves into the cognitive biases that run rampant in our brains, including "magical thinking," offering a prevailing message of hope, empathy and forgiven...

One of the world's leading scientists on ageing delivers a revealing and enjoyable account of what ageing is and how we can tackle its more serious side effects. We all age. But why do some of us live longer than others? Why do we live twice as long today as our ancestors did 200 years ago? And w...

Francis Macnab finds himself, like many, in a new spiritual, emotional, and psychological territory. It is called older age. He finds it helps to understand where we have come from, where we want to be, and how to get there. And perhaps most importantly, what we all need to flourish and thrive ra...

There are approximately 55 million people living with dementia around the world. It is estimated that this number will rise to 139 million by 2050. And it isn't just the elderly who are affected; diagnosis rates are rising in younger adults, with women at a higher risk than men. For many, especia...

"It's normal for the brain to short-circuit every now and then--you put your keys in the fridge, or can't find the pair of glasses on top of your head. But what if there was away to eat, exercise, and live that could eliminate these 'senior moments'? [This book] offers a plan to sharpen your memo...

Ageless is a guide to the science driving biology's biggest story -- why we get old, and how we can stop it. Ageing -- not cancer, not heart disease -- is the world's leading cause of death and suffering. We accept as inevitable that as we get older our bodies and minds begin to deteriorate, and ...

Diseases of older age take root decades before symptoms appear. For a longer, happier life, we need to plan ahead -- but what exactly should we do? For five years, Annabel Streets and Susan Saunders immersed themselves in the latest science of longevity, radically overhauling their lives and docu...

"In recent years the field of aging research has exploded with new clinical findings. Many widely accepted ideas about aging--including those about the inevitability of our declining metabolism, our dying brain cells, and our deteriorating muscles and bones--have been debunked. Today we know that...