Ageing, Healthy, and in Control: An Alternative Approach to Maintaining the Health of Older People |
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... disease through the elimination of symptoms rather than dealing with the wider , underlying causes of disease and ill - health . Allopathy is based on three fundamental premises : first that diseases are specific entities , whose ...
... disease through the elimination of symptoms rather than dealing with the wider , underlying causes of disease and ill - health . Allopathy is based on three fundamental premises : first that diseases are specific entities , whose ...
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... disease . There are theories of medicine which present an alternative view of illness , and its treatment . Most are based on the premise that natural processes within the body will maintain health . Naturopathy represents the purist ...
... disease . There are theories of medicine which present an alternative view of illness , and its treatment . Most are based on the premise that natural processes within the body will maintain health . Naturopathy represents the purist ...
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... disease , and have suf- ficient determination to change their lifestyle , can continue to live abundantly ; but not in the same way . Conversely , without changing the factors which increase vulnerability to heart disease , no medicine ...
... disease , and have suf- ficient determination to change their lifestyle , can continue to live abundantly ; but not in the same way . Conversely , without changing the factors which increase vulnerability to heart disease , no medicine ...
Contents
reasserting personal control | 64 |
combating loneliness | 82 |
Diet and nutrition | 98 |
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