What Really Works (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780007147458)

An extensively revised and updated edition of the well-known consumer resource guide to what's best in complementary health from the UK's most trusted health and beauty consumer watchdog. Includes products and therapies.

Susan Clark is the UK's most trusted consumer health watchdog and What Really Works cuts through the hype, waffle and information overload that exists surrounding complementary health, supplements and therapies, providing the reader what they really need to know.

The book is wide-ranging in scope and tests and reveals what really works across the entire mind, body, spirit area.

Part 1 - The essential building blocks for good health- food, air, water, sunlight and exercise.

Part 2 - A top-to-toe look at the best natural remedies to treat 80 everyday complaints.

Part 3 - The 30 best, most useful and well respected complementary therapies.

Part 4 - Spiritual-based therapies and practices from shamanism to meditation and many in between.

Part 5 - A guide to new ways to relax, including spas, retreats, therapists, yoga holidays, flotation tanks and more.

With a newly updated resources section and new index, What Really Works contains the most information and resources listing of any book on the market today.

About the Author

Susan Clark lives the life she writes about - her commitment to mind body spirit issues shows in her work. She eats an organic, vegetarian Sattvic diet and practices Sivananda Yoga and meditation. Her columns in The Sunday Times and The Sun are hugely respected and the first time she conducted a phone in on a radio talk programme she got 35,000 calls! She is the author of What Really Works for Kids. In spring 2000 Susan won Health Journalist of the Year Award