Stories
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500 years of strange diets
Odd diets aren’t just for January. Here are some examples that go back way further than New Year’s Day.
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Blood
Discover the history, mythology and taboos around blood and menopause, and hear from some contemporary voices about their experiences of periods and the onset of menopause.
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Yoga gets physical
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
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The secrets your teeth hold
Discover how innocuous-looking human teeth hold a wealth of hidden information about our diet, health and evolution.
Catalogue
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Medical mavericks - the history of self-experimentation. Part 3, Diet and disease.
Date: 2007- Books
Vegetarismus : zur Geschichte und Zukunft einer Lebensweise / herausgegeben von Manuela Linnemann und Claudia Schorcht.
Date: 2001- Books
Die frühmittelalterlichen lateinischen Monatskalendarien : Text - Übersetzung - Kommentar / von Frank-Dieter Groenke.
Groenke, Frank-Dieter, 1958-Date: 1986- Books
Anxious eaters : why we fall for fad diets / Janet Chrzan and Kima Cargill.
Chrzan, JanetDate: [2022]- Student dissertations
Gandhi - medicine, diet, sex and their influence on nationalism.
Bhatt, Markand.Date: [2005]