Packed with the latest cutting-edge alternative research, this has become the UKs leading AZ alternative health care manual on avoiding and treating a huge range of health problems. In a fully updated edition, published for the first time in the US, award-winning health journalist Hazel Courteney reveals myriad ways to take more responsibility for our individual health, providing thousands of little-known but highly important facts, remedies, dietary advice, and helpful hints on how to prevent, heal, and where to find more help for over 250 ailments. Updated with the latest scientific evidence on how to improve and maintain your health, this edition covers conditions from arthritis to angina, cancer to cramps, liver problems to low blood sugar, as well as rarer ones such as electrical pollution, and auto immune diseases such as lupus which are on the increase. Discover, too, which supplements and superfoods, such as pomegranates and tomatoes, can promote weight loss and help prevent heart disease, cancer, and high blood pressure. This one-stop, easy-to-read reference book is the only guide you'll need to prevent and heal most health problems the alternative way.