Live Well Live Long: Teachings from the Chinese Nourishment of Life Tradition and Modern Research

✍ Scribed by Peter Deadman

• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 441
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Chapter titles
Detailed contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter One: What is nourishment of life?
Chapter Two: Health - the challenge and the opportunity
Chapter Three: What determines how long we live and how healthy we are?
Chapter Four: Why we get ill
Chapter Five: Cultivating the mind and emotions
Chapter Six: How to eat
Chapter 7: What to eat
Chapter Eight: Alcohol
Chapter Nine: Tea
Chapter Ten: Exercise
Chapter Eleven: Traditional Chinese exercise
Chapter Twelve: Sleep
Chapter Thirteen: Affairs of the bedroom
Chapter Fourteen: Pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum care & breastfeeding
Chapter Fifteen: Care of children
Chapter Sixteen: Nature
Chapter Seventeen: Music and dance
Chapter Eighteen: Ageing and old age
Chapter Nineteen: Dying and death
Appendix A: The extraordinary story of our microbial friends
Appendix B: Smoking
Appendix C: Detoxing
Appendix D: Chinese science
Appendix E: A brief history of Chinese Health Science
Glossary
Further reading
Index