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The Carb Trap
Self Help2024 · 295 pp

The Carb Trap

Pål Branæs

In The Carb Trap, Pål Branæs, a specialist in general medicine, addresses some of the things he encounters most frequently in the doctor’s office. His patients struggle with obesity and loss of energy, in addition to a number of other lifestyle ailments which lead to a poor quality of life. This stops people from doing what they want and create resentment. We are witnessing a global pandemic of lifestyle diseases and ailments, according to Branæs. Difficulty maintaining weight, headaches, digestive problems, low mood and sleep problems are common complaints. This is all brought about by consuming more and more carbohydrates. Carbohydrate intolerance/insulin resistance has become increasingly widespread. It is a precursor to diabetes, and Branæs thinks we need to talk more about this condition. In this book, The Carb Trap, you will learn to understand how carbohydrates take control of you, and how you can take the necessary steps to improve your health. You will also see that dietary changes not only affect weight and energy levels but can also reduce the risk of serious lifestyle diseases in the future.

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Live Outdoors
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2024 · 190 pp

Live Outdoors

Jannicke Øien

Jannicke was an A&E nurse, looking after traffic accident victims and others whose lives had taken a sudden turn. Seeing them on the operating table had a powerful effect on her. The serious injuries were one thing, but even more unbearable was the grief over all the plans and dreams that were now unattainable. Patients told her how they had let life pass them by, planning for a quieter future where they could enjoy themselves. One day she decided that she wasn’t going to end up like that. She had to live now. Jannicke Øien is an adventurer and wilderness guide. Live Outside, Live Now is a tribute to the wild and untouched beauty that surrounds us. It contains personal reflections and stories about her experiences in nature, and how nature can affect us as humans. She writes about climbing some of the world’s highest mountain peaks, walking through dense forests and being in contact with the rich diversity of wildlife. We get to go to some of the most incredible places on the planet, such as the Himalayas, Alaska and Kilimanjaro. But this is also a book about something more: the importance of living our dreams while we can, while we have the health to do so.

First Aid for Children
Self Help2024 · 224 pp

First Aid for Children

Ida Grimstad

An indispensable first aid guide for parents with small children! This book gives parents the security they need to support and protect small children in nearly all possible situations. Concrete, clear guidance will help you if something happens to a child, if an emergency arises or if you have to deal with less serious accidents, such as scrapes or small cuts. The author’s simple, accessible and targeted information is conveyed through useful illustrations and easily understood text. First aid is not just about reacting to emergency situations, but also about preventing accidents and handling the daily minor incidents that inevitably occur. The book has a handy index to help you quickly find the relevant information you need.

Talk to me!
Self Help2024 · 288 pp

Talk to me!

Kirsten Holtmon Resaland

Why is she evasive when I ask how school was? How can I know whether anything is wrong when he never says anything? Many of us parents want proper answers when wondering how our teenager is doing, and we hope they’ll talk to us if something happens. But how can we accomplish this? Through relatable examples from the everyday lives of young people, child and adolescent psychotherapist Kirsten Resaland gives specific tips on how to provide a safe space for communication between adults and young people. The book offers a number of specific insights and tips for facilitating honest feedback from young people, about both ups and downs in their lives and about difficult experiences or troubling thoughts. Talk to me! adresses not only parents, but also other adults working closely with teenagers, such as teachers, doctors, social workers and others, who benefit from a conscious approach when communicating with teens.

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Spiritual
Self Help2024 · 130 pp

Spiritual

Kari Opsal

Spiritual – A Handbook on the Journey to the Inexplicable will help you live a more spiritual life. Author Kari Opsal is a clairvoyant who shared her own experiences, practical methods and techniques and shows you tools to better get in touch with your inner voice and intuition. through the many practical exercised in the book you will develop and become more familiar with your spiritual abilities. The book teaches you different spiritual phenomenona, how to read auras and how to get in touch with the other side. Being open and curious can add new dimensions to your life, where there is space for both big, inexplicable miracles and lesser, everyday magic. Why are you here? Is there a path for you that's more right than other in this life? Are we all connected? The book helps you find answers. Spiritual – A Handbook on the Journey to the Inexplicable can be read front to back, or be used as an encyclopaedia to dive into the themes that interest you. A world of energy and magical wonder awaits you. Have a good journey!

The 8-week Formula
Self Help2023 · 168 pp

The 8-week Formula

Kristine Weber

The 8-Week-Formula is the perfect book for those who want to get in shape quickly, and who want a strong body you feel comfortable in. If you follow author Kristine Weber’s method, you’ll experience noticeable changes within 8 weeks as well as a number of positive health benefits. In this book you get tailor-made nutritional plans with tempting recipes for food with lots of protein, as well as effective workout programmes that make it easy to succeed. The book is designed so that you can choose whether you want to work out at home, at a gym or both. There are also nutritional plans with protein rich meals which will satisfy your hunger and help build strength. Kristine Weber makes it easy to take care of your own health, and offers tempting suggestions for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and supper, throughout the whole week. The author also shares tips and advice to make the lifestyle change feasible and possible to maintain over a longer time, regardless of what else you have going on in life. The 8-Week-Formula offers the advice that can help you have a better life, without strict regimes which are foreign and far from your day-to-day life. By following Weber’s tips you’ll experience the joy of a healthier and stronger body.

Everything Ok?
Self Help2023 · 368 pp

Everything Ok?

Ellen Frøysaa / Sofie Frøysaa

Everything Ok? tells the story of Sofie Frøysaa and her mother Ellen Frøysaa and their introduction to school and the mental health care when Sofie gets mentally ill in her teenage years. The book offers a rich insight into what it can be like to fall outside the norms, as well as being the next of kin. An unsentimental testimony about involuntarily missing school and taboo mental illnesses, which invites the reader in behind the façade of “everything is ok”.

Instruction Manual for Everyday Sex
Self Help2023 · 192 pp

Instruction Manual for Everyday Sex

Siri Dalsmo Berge

Sex is an important part of a relationship. Some believe it is the very glue in the relationship, but do you know what the key to good everyday sex over time is? It is neither technical skills nor synchronized orgasms that are most important. Couples who have good sex over many years primarily have a solid friendship at the bottom. A friendship characterized by mutual trust and admiration. And then they prioritize sex. Even though they are busy and have a thousand irons in the fire, they choose to spend time being intimate with each other. They make room for it, because they have experienced that everyday sex strengthens their closeness and sense of belonging. In Instruction Manual for Everyday Sex, GP and couples therapist Siri Dalsmo Berge guides you through common sexual concerns and problems as she does in consultations with patients. She combines medical knowledge and up-to-date research on sexuality and health with good, well-documented advice on how you can increase your sexual well-being and intimacy with your partner in everyday life. The quality of your close relationships is the most important factor that affects how long you live. Physical intimacy and sex are an important part of this, and a good sex life contributes to better health, while problems with sex or difficult sexual experiences create ill health. In other words, good everyday sex is good for you.

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The Green Diabetes Book
Cook Books / Self Help2023 · 176 pp

The Green Diabetes Book

Hege Hasler Barhaughøgda / Gunn-Karin Sakariassen

Learn how to put together delicious, green meals with maximum nutrition and blood sugar friendly ingredients! In The Green Diabetes Book you get healthy and tasty plant-based meals which both prevent and improve your health and Type 2 Diabetes. The book is also useful also for those with the Type 1 of the disease. The authors, who have many years of experience with cooking food for good blood sugar balance, address all types of plant-based diets, so that you can choose the food you prefer. In addition to all the knowledge you’ll need to be able to eat full-fledged and nutritious meals without fish and meat, you also get 80 recipes for delicious breakfasts and lunches, gorgeous dinners and snacks, and sweet bakes for those times you want a special treat. The book offers several base recipes and a range of tips on how to vary the dishes. All the recipes include nutritional information.

Covid teens
Narrative Non-fiction / Self Help2023 · 192 pp

Covid teens

Lars Halse Kneppe

As a psychologist at a Norwegian high school in Oslo, Lars Halse Kneppe has spent the entire pandemic visiting schools and spending time among young people. The world was changing from week to week, and no one knew how long it would last. There has been much written about the youth during the pandemic, but Kneppe has met these young people who are the cause of scary statistics and worrying numbers. Behind the numbers are real humans with their own stories who can complement the impression we get from graphs or statistics. In this book Kneppe shares the stories of the youths, about how they’ve been coping during the pandemic, but also after the world opened back up. To understand what the youth has been through, and in order to meet them halfway in the aftermath, it’s more important to listen to their stories rather than reducing them to numbers as part of a statistic. This is an exploration of time and an insight into the day-to-day lives of the teenagers throughout the pandemic; how were they feeling and how were they doing, and how have their experiences affected the teenagers many refer to as the corona generation?

Parenting Power
Self Help2023 · 256 pp

Parenting Power

Marco Elsafadi / Nina Lødemel

As a parent you can help your child develop a strong and positive mindset. You can offer help to handle difficult emotions. You can parttake the good times and support the child’s curiosity as it explores the world. But how do you lay the groundwork for this good communication, and how can you strengthen it? In Parenting Power, youth worker Marco Elsafadi offers you the tools you need to get closer to your child. He shares his very best techniques on how to meet and understand your child in the best possible way – as well as how you can recognize the pitfalls when they first appear. It really all comes down to investing the time and effort – what you put into your relationship with your child while they are still living at home. Which questions should you ask, and which conversations should you have? The fights between parent and child can seem unnecessarily large if you don’t understand each other when situations arise. When you take their feelings seriously, your child will learn that they can come to you and share news, get support and comfort. Their safe haven. If the child feels loved, prioritized, and acknowledged, the desire to explore will come naturally and the chances that they will become a confident and independent young adult is high – which again will create strong and healthy relationships with other children and adults. Marco Elsafadis’ reflective, whimsical, and warm style of narration will both engage and touch anyone who reads this book. His goal is to help you become a calmer, more confident and harmonic parent, whose appropriate and constructive reactions become a natural part of your reflexes. By following his methods, you will be able to better connect with your child – right now, but also later in life.

Happy Tummy, Happy You
Cook Books / Self Help2023 · 208 pp

Happy Tummy, Happy You

Gry Hammer

Do you have a troubled and sensitive stomach? Do you want powerful experience and research-based advice about how to handle this, as well as recipes for stomach-friendly food? Then Happy Tummy, Happy You is the ideal book for you! Gry Hammer has throughout several years shared dietary knowledge through courses and bestselling books. In Happy Tummy, Happy You she guides you through our digestive system and teaches you how you can get a calmer tummy by improving the intestinal flora. The author shares a load of concrete advice, practical exercises and lovely recipes for food which will strengthen your digestion and make your gut happier. Try oven-baked cod with pesto, keto pad thai or sourdough bread baked in a cast iron pot. Or how about yogurt pudding with strawberries, liquorice balls or apple pie with a fermented nutty topping? You will also get recipes for drinks which nourish the good bacteria in the stomach, enzyme snacks to prevent digestive problems and many potent and delicious shots, breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and desserts. When you know what your body can handle, you can eat so many delicious things, and Gry will guide you along the way. Don’t let an unstable tummy take control over your life – start your lifestyle change today!