Health & Fitness in Plain English: How to Be Healthy, Happy, and Fit for the Rest of Your Life

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This remarkably rich book explores the most frequently asked about (and misunderstood) aspects of health, nutrition, and fitness over a lifetime. Each subject is addressed in non-technical language to replace myths and misinformation with easy-to-apply knowledge. Ideal for individuals at any level of health and fitness experience, and for personal trainers who wish to share information with their clients in terms they can understand.Includes:Health - Heart, cholesterol, diabetes, digestion, osteoporosis, body fat tests, weight loss, mental and emotional health.Exercise - Abdominal muscles (what they do and don't), neutral spine during real life, healthy body mechanics, stretching, weights, improving balance, functional lifestyle fitness, how to get started, over-training, exercising with children and family, making daily life fun and healthful at the same time.Nutrition - Healthy eating, Vitamins and fads, health foods you can make inexpensively yourself, diets, supplements, drugs, performance enhancing food and products both good and bad, getting started, easy recipes, changing bad nutrition habits to healthy ones.Pain & Injury - Full chapters on fixing discs, neck pain, upper and lower back pain, leg cramps, and headaches. Sections on knee pain, shoulder, and ankle sprains.No cost preventive medicine, daily health without buying exercise equipment or supplements, healthier medical practices and mind set. Living a healthy life becomes inexpensive, simple, self-empowering, "green," and puts the fun in functional. and much, much more.Funny Facts about the body.A to Z GLOSSARY, explains it all with word derivations and stories.and more.  Funny, jam-packed, practical, easy to understand.