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Healthy Habits covers the small daily choices in sleep, movement, food, focus and stress that shape how we feel and function, which matters for readers in the region balancing long work hours, screen time, family life and hot climates. The books here range from sleep and longevity science to practical guides on discipline, mental clarity, mobility and sustainable routines. Readers can use these ideas to build realistic routines that restore energy, protect focus and support long-term health for themselves and their families.

1Less Doing, More Living

Less Doing, More Living

Ari Meisel

Reclaim your time and energy by simplifying, automating, and outsourcing tasks so you can focus on what truly enriches your life.

12 min

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Less Doing, More Living (2014) shows how to free up time and mental energy by doing less of what does not matter. Ari Meisel presents a simple system built on three steps: optimise, automate, and outsource. He explains how to get tasks out of your head, use technology and helpers wisely, and focus on what you do best, so you can be more productive while enjoying a fuller life.

Who should read Less Doing, More Living?

  • Busy professionals overwhelmed by endless to-do lists
  • Entrepreneurs ready to automate and delegate routine work
  • Anyone seeking more time for family and rest
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2Super Human

Super Human

Dave Asprey

Support healthy ageing through targeted nutrition, smart technology, and optimised habits that strengthen energy, focus, and long-term well-being.

20 min

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What is Super Human about?

Super Human (2019) explores practical ways to slow ageing and live a longer, more energetic life. Dave Asprey explains the main causes of ageing in the body and shares strategies that include better sleep, improved nutrition, managing stress, strength training, and using new health technologies. The book encourages readers to take an active role in their health so they can feel better and perform at their best for longer.

Who should read Super Human?

  • Anyone who wants to age with more energy and focus
  • Professionals seeking better sleep, nutrition and stress management
  • Health enthusiasts curious about technology for longer, healthier lives
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3Getting It Done When You're Depressed

Getting It Done When You're Depressed

Julie Fast and John Preston

Stay gently productive through depression with manageable strategies that conserve energy, reduce overwhelm, and turn small actions into steady progress.

15 min

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What is Getting It Done When You're Depressed about?

Getting It Done When You're Depressed (2008) offers fifty practical strategies for staying productive and keeping daily life on track during periods of depression. Julie Fast and John Preston explain how depression affects motivation, thinking, and energy, and suggest manageable steps for handling work, household tasks, and responsibilities. The book encourages readers to focus on action rather than waiting to feel better first.

Who should read Getting It Done When You're Depressed?

  • People struggling to keep up with work during depression
  • Anyone waiting to feel better before taking action
  • Anyone overwhelmed by daily tasks and household responsibilities
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4ADHD an A-Z

ADHD an A-Z

Leanne Maskell

Understand the ADHD brain and build practical systems that make school, work, and everyday life easier to manage.

17 min

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What is ADHD an A-Z about?

ADHD an A-Z (2022) provides an accessible guide to understanding attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and the many ways it may affect daily life. Organised by topics from A to Z, it discusses attention, organisation, emotions, work, money, relationships, and practical support strategies. The book combines personal experience with useful tools, while recognising that professional assessment and individualised care remain important for anyone seeking a diagnosis or treatment.

Who should read ADHD an A-Z?

  • Adults with ADHD seeking practical systems for daily life
  • Parents and partners supporting a loved one with ADHD
  • Students and professionals struggling with focus and organization
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5You Be You

You Be You

Drew Canole

Elevate your energy, health, and purpose by embracing your strengths and building daily habits aligned with the life you want.

18 min

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What is You Be You about?

You Be You (2018) encourages readers to move beyond limiting expectations and develop a life that reflects their own values, strengths, and priorities. Drew Canole combines personal stories with exercises involving habits, mindset, health, goals, and self-acceptance. The book presents authenticity as an ongoing practice that requires honest reflection, responsible choices, supportive relationships, and the courage to change routines that no longer serve a meaningful purpose.

Who should read You Be You?

  • Anyone who feels stuck living by others' expectations
  • Professionals seeking more energy and healthier daily routines
  • People ready to rebuild habits around their values
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6Women, Food, and Hormones

Women, Food, and Hormones

Sara Gottfried

Understand how hormones influence weight, mood, and energy, then adopt practical habits that support balance and lasting well-being.

15 min

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Women, Food, and Hormones (2021) explains how women’s hormones affect weight, energy, and overall health, and why diets designed mainly for men often do not work as well for women. Sara Gottfried shares a nutrition plan tailored to women’s biology, focused on balancing hormones, reducing inflammation, and supporting metabolism. The book includes practical guidance, meal plans, and recipes.

Who should read Women, Food, and Hormones?

  • Women whose diets keep failing despite real effort
  • Anyone curious how hormones shape weight, mood and energy
  • Women seeking practical meal plans for hormonal balance
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7Built to Move

Built to Move

Kelly Starrett and Juliet Starrett

Move better every day with simple, science-based habits that support mobility, ease discomfort, and build lasting strength.

14 min

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What is Built to Move about?

Built to Move (2023) offers a simple plan for keeping the body mobile, strong, and pain-free for life. Kelly Starrett and Juliet Starrett describe ten basic physical signs of good health, such as being able to get up and down from the floor, walking enough each day, and sleeping well. For each sign, they provide easy tests and practical exercises that anyone can do at home.

Who should read Built to Move?

  • Office workers who sit for long hours daily
  • Anyone dealing with stiffness or everyday aches
  • Older adults who want to stay strong and independent
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8Intentionality

Intentionality

Finnian Kelly

Move beyond autopilot by mastering your mindset, clarifying your vision, and taking purposeful action aligned with your deepest values.

18 min

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What is Intentionality about?

Intentionality (2024) explores how breathing, awareness, and deliberate choices can help people move from automatic reactions toward a more purposeful life. It combines personal stories with reflective exercises intended to help readers understand their emotions, release unhelpful patterns, and align their actions with their values.

Who should read Intentionality?

  • People who feel they're living on autopilot
  • Anyone whose emotional reactions often take over
  • Anyone seeking to align daily actions with values
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9Scattered Minds

Scattered Minds

Gabor Maté

Explore a compassionate perspective on ADHD that connects attention and behaviour with early experiences, offering greater understanding, healing, and adaptability.

17 min

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What is Scattered Minds about?

Scattered Minds (1999) offers a compassionate new way of understanding attention deficit disorder. Gabor Maté, who was himself diagnosed with the condition as an adult, argues that it is shaped not only by genes but also by early childhood experiences and stress. He explains how the condition affects daily life and relationships, and offers practical guidance for healing and self-understanding.

Who should read Scattered Minds?

  • Adults recently diagnosed with ADHD seeking self-understanding
  • Parents raising children who struggle with attention and focus
  • Teachers and counselors who support easily distracted young people
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10Expecting Better

Expecting Better

Emily Oster

Navigate pregnancy with confidence by replacing outdated advice and fear with clear evidence and informed choices.

15 min

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What is Expecting Better about?

Expecting Better (2013) helps pregnant women make informed choices by looking carefully at the evidence behind common pregnancy rules. Emily Oster, an economist, examines advice about caffeine, certain foods, weight gain, prenatal testing, and labour, and explains what the research actually shows. Rather than telling women what to do, the book gives them the information they need to make their own decisions with their doctors.

Who should read Expecting Better?

  • Expectant mothers who want the evidence behind pregnancy rules
  • Women planning a pregnancy who prefer informed decisions
  • Husbands who want to support their wives during pregnancy
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11My Morning Routine

My Morning Routine

Benjamin Spall and Michael Xander

Transform your mornings with proven routines from leaders, creatives, and athletes that sharpen focus, boost productivity, and improve well-being.

16 min

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What is My Morning Routine about?

My Morning Routine (2018) shares how successful people start their day and what readers can learn from them. Benjamin Spall and Michael Xander draw on interviews with more than three hundred people, including business leaders, athletes, writers, and entrepreneurs, to show how a well-designed morning can boost energy, focus, and productivity. The book offers practical ideas for building a routine that fits your own life.

Who should read My Morning Routine?

  • Anyone who starts the day feeling rushed or scattered
  • Professionals looking to sharpen focus and productivity early
  • Readers curious how successful people begin their mornings
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12Healthy Kids, Happy Kids

Healthy Kids, Happy Kids

Elisa Song

Raise resilient, energetic children through balanced nutrition, healthy routines, and practical habits that support lifelong well-being.

11 min

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Healthy Kids, Happy Kids (2023) is a practical guide to supporting children’s health from the inside out. Elisa Song, a paediatrician who combines conventional and integrative medicine, explains how gut health, nutrition, sleep, and stress affect children’s bodies and moods. She offers simple, everyday steps parents can take to help prevent common illnesses and raise healthier, happier kids.

Who should read Healthy Kids, Happy Kids?

  • Parents who want fewer sick days for their kids
  • Caregivers curious how gut health shapes children's mood
  • Families seeking simple daily routines for healthier children
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13Ikigai

Ikigai

Héctor García and Francesc Miralles

Find your ikigai by aligning purpose, joy, and daily habits to create a more meaningful and fulfilling life.

17 min

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What is Ikigai about?

Ikigai (2016) explores the Japanese idea of ikigai, often described as a reason for being, and what it can teach about living a long and happy life. Héctor García and Francesc Miralles visited Okinawa, home to some of the world’s longest-living people, and share lessons on purpose, friendship, healthy eating, staying active, and staying fully engaged in the present. The book became an international bestseller.

Who should read Ikigai?

  • Professionals searching for more meaning in their daily work
  • Anyone wanting healthy habits for a long, happy life
  • Retirees and older adults seeking purpose and active routines
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14Mindful Drinking

Mindful Drinking

Rosamund Dean

Rethink your relationship with alcohol through awareness and intentional choices that strengthen well-being and restore control.

14 min

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What is Mindful Drinking about?

Mindful Drinking (2017) helps readers take a more conscious approach to alcohol and reduce how much they drink. Journalist Rosamund Dean combines personal experience, expert advice, and research on health, sleep, and wellbeing to show the benefits of cutting down. The book offers practical tips for changing habits and dealing with social pressure.

Who should read Mindful Drinking?

  • Anyone looking to cut down on alcohol
  • People struggling with social pressure to keep drinking
  • Readers seeking better sleep, health and self-control
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15Reversing Alzheimer's

Reversing Alzheimer's

Heather Sandison

Support brain health and cognitive function through a holistic plan combining nutrition, sleep, exercise, and stress management.

20 min

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What is Reversing Alzheimer's about?

Reversing Alzheimer's (2024) presents Heather Sandison’s approach to supporting cognitive health through personalised assessment and changes in nutrition, movement, sleep, stress management, and daily habits. The book argues that addressing several health factors together may help some people protect brain function and improve their overall well-being. Because Alzheimer’s disease is complex and currently has no established cure, its recommendations should be considered alongside evaluation and treatment from qualified medical professionals.

Who should read Reversing Alzheimer's?

  • Adults who want to support long-term brain health
  • Families caring for a loved one with memory concerns
  • Anyone seeking healthy habits that complement medical care
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16Blind Spots

Blind Spots

Marty Makary

Expose the hidden failures that endanger patients and see how transparency, communication, and accountability can create safer healthcare.

19 min

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What is Blind Spots about?

Blind Spots (2024) examines cases where the medical establishment held on to beliefs that later proved wrong, sometimes for decades. Marty Makary shows how groupthink, pressure to conform, and reluctance to question experts can lead to poor advice for patients, and explores examples from nutrition, allergies, and hormone treatment. He calls for more humility, open debate, and better use of evidence in medicine.

Who should read Blind Spots?

  • Healthcare professionals willing to question long-held medical assumptions
  • Patients who want to ask better questions about their care
  • Anyone curious why expert consensus is sometimes wrong
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17Boost!

Boost!

Michael Bar-Eli

Apply sports psychology to work: set clear goals, build confidence, avoid biases and manage pressure the way top athletes and coaches do.

17 min

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What is Boost! about?

Boost! (2016) applies lessons from sports psychology to management and everyday work. Michael Bar-Eli draws on research about athletes and coaches to explore how people perform under pressure, make decisions, set goals, and stay motivated. The book shows how insights from the playing field, such as avoiding biases and managing stress, can help professionals and teams achieve better results.

Who should read Boost!?

  • Managers who want their teams to perform under pressure
  • Sports fans curious how athletic insights apply at work
  • Professionals who struggle with stress and tough decisions
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18Good for a Girl

Good for a Girl

Lauren Fleshman

Run alongside a female athlete confronting bias, identity, and unequal expectations while finding the resilience to succeed on her own terms.

18 min

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What is Good for a Girl about?

Good for a Girl (2023) is a memoir by champion runner Lauren Fleshman about growing up as a female athlete in a sports system built mainly around men. She describes the pressures young women face as their bodies change, the injuries and health problems that can follow, and why many talented girls leave sport. The book calls for a healthier, fairer approach to training and supporting female athletes.

Who should read Good for a Girl?

  • Young female athletes facing pressure and body changes
  • Coaches who train and support girls and women
  • Parents of daughters who love competitive sport
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19Wean in 15

Wean in 15

Joe Wicks

Make starting solid foods easier with quick, healthy recipes and simple routines that build positive, adventurous eating habits.

19 min

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What is Wean in 15 about?

Wean in 15 (2018) is a practical guide to introducing babies to solid food. Joe Wicks shares his family’s weaning experience, explains the stages of weaning, and offers one hundred simple recipes that can be made quickly for babies and toddlers. The book helps parents build healthy eating habits for their children with less stress.

Who should read Wean in 15?

  • New parents preparing to introduce solid foods
  • Busy parents wanting quick, healthy meals for babies
  • Caregivers hoping to raise adventurous, unfussy little eaters
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20The Longevity Imperative

The Longevity Imperative

Andrew J. Scott

Rethink work, learning, and ageing for longer lives built around health, purpose, adaptability, and opportunity.

16 min

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What is The Longevity Imperative about?

The Longevity Imperative (2024) argues that because people are living longer than ever, societies must focus not just on adding years to life but on making those years healthy and productive. Andrew J. Scott explains how governments, businesses, and individuals can prepare for longer lives through better health, lifelong learning, flexible careers, and smarter financial planning, turning ageing into an opportunity rather than a burden.

Who should read The Longevity Imperative?

  • Professionals planning for longer, more flexible working lives
  • Policymakers preparing societies for aging populations
  • Anyone wanting their extra years to be healthy and meaningful
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Questions about Healthy Habits

What is a good book to start with on healthy habits?

Make Change That Lasts is a gentle starting point because it focuses on small, sustainable steps rather than dramatic overhauls. If rest is your main struggle, Sleep Smarter offers simple changes that quickly improve energy and mood.

What will I learn from healthy habits books?

You will learn how sleep, movement, nutrition and stress management work together to affect your energy, focus and long-term health. Titles such as The Telomere Effect and Built to Move explain the science and turn it into everyday actions you can apply.

Who are these summaries for?

They suit busy professionals, students, parents and anyone who wants to feel better without complicated plans. Whether you are starting fresh or refining existing routines, each summary gives you clear ideas to try in your daily life.

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