Ageing, Healthy, and in Control: An Alternative Approach to Maintaining the Health of Older People |
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... body , they can depress the body's fight against disease , and gradually weaken natural immune defence mechanisms , and inhibit the development of the body's own resistance . Mansfield ( 1988 ) warned that we should ' look at ...
... body , they can depress the body's fight against disease , and gradually weaken natural immune defence mechanisms , and inhibit the development of the body's own resistance . Mansfield ( 1988 ) warned that we should ' look at ...
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... body's self - healing capacity , and their validity reassessed according to their ability to enhance the natural recuperative powers of the body rather than their scientific credibility . Similarly , the action of allopathic medicine ...
... body's self - healing capacity , and their validity reassessed according to their ability to enhance the natural recuperative powers of the body rather than their scientific credibility . Similarly , the action of allopathic medicine ...
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... body is mirrored in the feet . Thus , through foot massage , health benefits can arise in parts of the body quite removed from the foot , primarily by stimulating the healing forces inherent within the body , and increasing the body's ...
... body is mirrored in the feet . Thus , through foot massage , health benefits can arise in parts of the body quite removed from the foot , primarily by stimulating the healing forces inherent within the body , and increasing the body's ...
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reasserting personal control | 64 |
combating loneliness | 82 |
Diet and nutrition | 98 |
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