Guide to Total Fitness of Body and Mind

Contents: 1. Brain and nerves: learn to keep them healthy and fit/M. Modi and S. Prabhakar. 2. Maintain fitness: prevent diabetes and other top killers. 3. Learn proper posture and proper walking: two keys to total fitness/Ravinder Singh and Jasmine Sachdeva. 4. Fitness is a lifelong process: obesity in the Menopausal zone. 5. Essentials to fitness: prevention of diseases and their early detection/Harsh Mohan and Annu Nanda. 6. Let your heart be fit: Pros and Cons of primary and secondary prevention of heart failure. 7. Restore fitness early: secondary prevention in case of fracture/R.L. Mittal. 8. Your fitness, your health: you are the custodian/B.K. Chopra and Vishal Chopra. 9. Modern lifestyle and depression: a healthy mind assures a healthy and fit body/Rajeev Gupta. 10. Skin care: part of total fitness/Adarsh Chopra and Dimple Chopra. 11. Healthy teeth and gums: insurance to fitness of body system/Viresh Chopra and Himanshu Aeran. 12. How to guide patients suffering from life threatening problems/Ranjiv Mittal. 13. Let your vision be clear: remove Cobwebs of eye myths/R.K. Grewal. 14. Breast-feeding is the best; save it from cancer. Appendices: 1. Guidelines for management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in India (PGI, Chandigarh). 2. Disc surgery. 3. Nasal allergies. 4. Oral health. 5. Free radicals and antioxidants. Index.

"Fitness is more positive than mere absence of disease or just being well--it denotes a feeling of energy, strength, stamina and capacity and will to prevent diseases. This book attempts to offer you a feeling of fitness and drive to achieve--in certain areas of health. While brain and nerves are the masters of command and communications for the body systems, proper posture and proper walking are day-to-day essentials. Obesity is a top killer and so are heart diseases and diabetes--if you maintain fitness you can ward them off. Fitness can make your bones strong, but if a fracture occurs, set the defect right early. While taking care of physical attributes, looking after emotional health is necessary to remain fit. Your skin is not only the mirror of your health and fitness, its care is necessary as a part of fitness programme. Your teeth and oral hygiene are required to prevent several problems in digestive system and other systems. Cancer is a dreaded condition anywhere in the body, but when affecting breast the fear is all the more. Protecting eyes and their vision is necessary for fitness and productivity. If despite care a life threatening condition sets in counseling is required to make the life liveable or at least bearable." (jacket)