Penguin Books Australia

'Fascinating and inspiring . . . a 'must' for doctors and patients alike'.
- Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D., Rossi Distinguished Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, author of Power to the Patient

Millions of people are discovering a new way of thinking about their weight, their health, and their lives. They are taking part in a visionary approach to weight loss that combines goal setting, nutrition, exercise, motivation, and community that has a proven track record of ten million pounds lost.

How bacteria keep you alive, how they can kill you, and how we can all live together more successfully .

The true story of the ongoing human health crisis that followed 9/11 - now fully told for the first time.

The essential tools for making our own best medical decisions, cutting through the confusion caused by the health-care system, the media, and gaps in our own reasoning.

Making the right medical choices is harder than ever.  Whether we're deciding to take a cholesterol drug or choosing a cancer treatment, we are overwhelmed by information from all sides: our doctors' recommendations, dissenting...

' Good Health in the 21st Century shows how you and your family can stay healthy with good dietary practice, exercise, and sensible supplementation.'
WELLNESS

Western nations are worried about the problems of an ageing population. But if we take into account the health trends in younger generations we arrive at a frightening prediction: for the first time in history, we have produced a generation which...

EVERYONE KNOWS MOBILE PHONES ARE SAFE.
IF THEY WEREN'T, WE'D ALREADY KNOW
ABOUT IT, RIGHT?

That is perhaps the greatest disconnect of our age.  As research scientists ate now demonstrating, mobile-phone radiation can damage the human body's cells – leading to memory loss, and increased risk of cancer, reduced sperm counts, and neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's and possibly even...

The debate on autism is approaching fever pitch.  From 'refrigerator parents' to vaccines, the cause of what has been dubbed 'the autism epidemic' have been hotly contested.

Walker Brown was born with a genetic mutation so rare that doctors call it an orphan syndrome: perhaps 300 people around the world also live with it. Walker turns twelve in 2008, but he weighs only 54 pounds, is still in diapers, can't speak and needs to wear special cuffs on his arms so that he can't continually hit himself. 'Sometimes watching him,' Brown writes, 'is like looking at the man in the...

Technology infiltrates our lives so rapidly that few of us stop to consider the potential health implications.  Yet could the technology designed to improve our lives actually be making us sick?

Scientists have long believed that there is a link between health problems and radiation from mobile phones, wireless connections, powerlines, and electronic devices.  Radiation has been linked to...

'It's up to us, the baby-boomer generation, to invent a new way of growing old – and paradoxically, this means accepting the ageing process but without becoming 'old'. How do we become the life and soul of the party and not the party poopers? This impetus behind this book is the certainty that there is something in us that never grows old. I like to call it the heart. Not the organ, which clearly...

Making Babies tells the stories behind the statistics, inside the world...

Wanting a baby?
Not wanting a baby just now?

Nature has provided every woman with a precise signal of her state of fertility, which she can quickly learn to recognise.  This simple fact is the basis of the Billings Method, which has helped millions of woman around the world to tune into their own bodies and achieve healthy, natural fertility control.

Here's a book that takes Jamie's Dinners, Supersize Me , mangoes in the Arctic Circle and McFatties, and puts them in a blender to make an intoxicating cocktail. Stuffed and Starved takes us into the supermarket aisles...

When Paula Butturini's husband was shot and nearly killed, it marked the abrupt end of what the couple had known together and the beginning of a phase of life neither had planned for.

A story of food and love, trauma and healing, Keeping the Feast is the triumphant memoir of one couple's nourishment and restoration after a period of tragedy, and the extraordinary sustaining powers of food, family...

Applying straightforward sense to one of our most important sense.

Hearing loss and impairment is a problem that millions of adults and children suffer from. With a wide array of symptoms, it is important to have one authoritative resource for information. Written by certified otolaryngologists under the auspices of the world renowned House Ear clinic, The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Hearing Loss...

For Dr. Wes Burgess, the diagnosis of bipolar disorder means hope - hope for the estimated ten million people who will develop the disorder during their lifetimes, and hope for the families and friends of people who suffer from it.