Guide to Health

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN:
  9781776535590
• Edition: 0

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.

Table of contents

• A GUIDE TO HEALTH
• 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 Diseases
• Chapter 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