The People Maintenance Manual

• The People Maintenance Manual

Living Well - guidelines for health and fitness
Foreword by Sir Roger Bannister

THE PEOPLE MAINTENANCE MANUAL represents a new approach to physical fitness, health and well-being-a subject most people view with feelings that can range from the quilt of neglect and laziness to the pride of vigour and physical achievement. This book is different because it views health and fitness from a wider perspectine than has ever before been attempted; because it backs this up with illustrations that are both beautiful and informative ; and because it is balanced, objective, undoctrinaire and, above all else, reassuring. It maps out the principal paths to fitness and takes the reader just as far along them as he wants to go without making him feel guilty if he stops somewhere short of perfection.

The first section, Who are you?, enables the reader to identify himself within the complex framework of different physical and psychological types-to recognize both the potential and the limitations of his own body and mind.

In Fuel for the System the book deals extensively with food and diet. The chapter explains in simple terms the kinds and quantities of food that the body needs ; the relationship between diet and health ; the best and safest ways to lose weight; how to cook and preserve fonds; and how to view some of the alternative philosophies of food and diet practised around the world today.

Living with Stress explains how to cope with the mental strain of day-to-day life and all lts side effects such as insomnia, sex problems and aggression. Meditation, yoga, biofeedback and other mind/body systems are examined.

Exercise at Your Own Pace takes the reader through all the main approaches to fitness. If all you want to do is tone yourself up for a season's lawn-mowing or tennis, the answers are there. But if you do want the route to supreme fitness, this chapter offers the best and most tested methods-as well as lts own unique programme for getting fit in forty minutes a week.

Finally, Basic Body Maintenance provides the back-up knowledge essential for keeping the body's main systems and "components" in Good working order from the eyes, ears and teeth to the hands and feet.

* Health and fitness for all ages
* Balancing your food with energy needs
* Coping with the stresses of modern life
* Dieting the sensible and effective way
* Exercise-as much or as little as you need
* Guidelines for basic body maintenance