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A Guide to Health.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gandhi, Mahatma.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health.
- Nutrition.
- Wellness.
- Local Subjects:
- Health.
- Nutrition.
- Wellness.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (123 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Auckland : The Floating Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- Though he is best remembered as the civil rights leader whose nonviolent protests called attention to a number of important issues, including the negative consequences of British imperialism, Mahatma Gandhi was an ascetic person who strove to maintain health and purity. A Guide to Health sets forth his beliefs and practices related to a wide range of health and wellness issues, ranging from diet to exercise to sexual activity.
- Contents:
- Title; Contents; Translator's Note; Introduction; PART I - GENERAL; Chapter I - The Meaning of Health; Chapter II - The Human Body; Chapter III - Air; Chapter IV - Water; Chapter V - Food; Chapter VI - How Much and How Many Times Should We Eat?; Chapter VII - Exercise; Chapter VIII - Dress; Chapter IX - Sexual Relations; PART II - SOME SIMPLE TREATMENTS; Chapter I - Air-Treatment; Chapter II - Water-Cure; Chapter III - The Use of Earth; Chapter IV - Fever and its Cure; Chapter V - Constipation, Dysentery, Gripes and Piles; Chapter VI - Contagious Diseases: Small-Pox
- Chapter VII - Other Contagious DiseasesChapter VIII - Maternity and Child-Birth; Chapter IX - Care of the Child; Chapter X - Some Accidents; Chapter XI - Some Accidents-(Contd.); Chapter XII - Some Accidents-(Contd.); Chapter XIII - Some Accidents-(Contd.); Chapter XIV - Conclusion; Endnotes
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9781776535590
- 1776535596
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