| Preface | 6 |
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| Acknowledgements | 12 |
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| Contents | 13 |
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| List of Contributors | 16 |
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| Introduction | 20 |
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| Low-Cost Approaches to Promote Physical and Mental Health | 21 |
| Primary Interventions: Nutritional Approaches | 58 |
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| Diets, Health, and Weight Control: What Do We Know? | 63 |
| Low-Cost Obesity Interventions: The Market for Foods | 89 |
| Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Health | 102 |
| Vitamins, Minerals and Health | 117 |
| Herbal Medicines in the Treatment of Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders | 133 |
| Primary Nonverbal Approaches | 153 |
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| Daily Practices for Mindful Exercise | 155 |
| Relaxation and Meditation | 175 |
| Expressive Movement | 190 |
| Pleasant, Pleasurable, and Positive Activities | 214 |
| Secondary Writing Approaches | 231 |
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| The Recording of Personal Information as an Intervention and as an Electronic Health Support | 239 |
| Teaching to Remember Ourselves: The Autobiographical Methodology | 263 |
| Expressive Writing: An Alternative to Traditional Methods | 283 |
| Workbooks for the Promotion of Mental Health and Life- Long Learning | 297 |
| Computers and the Internet | 315 |
| Secondary Relational Approaches | 332 |
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| Maternal-Infant Contact and Child Development: Insights from the Kangaroo Intervention | 334 |
| Touch Interventions Positively Affect Development | 363 |
| Non-Erotic Physical Affection: It s Good for You | 380 |
| Sex, Sexuality, and Sensuality | 393 |
| Intimacy and Fear of Intimacy | 403 |
| Low-Cost Interventions for Promoting Forgiveness | 423 |
| Spirituality in Achieving Physical and Psychological Health and Well- Being: Theory, Research and Low Cost Interventions | 443 |
| Tertiary Multi-Personal Approaches | 461 |
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| Friendship, Social Support, and Health | 462 |
| Animal Companions | 480 |
| Applications of Emotional Intelligence to Schools and Workplace | 491 |
| Conclusion | 509 |
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| Implications of Prescriptive Approaches for Policy, Health Promotion, Epidemiology, and Public Health | 510 |
| Subject Index | 525 |