Posture Makes Perfect: The Missing Link in Health and Fitness - Couverture souple

Barker, Dr. Vic

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 047310184X ISBN 13 : 9780473101848

Editeur : Waiwera International Limited, 2005

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Victor Barker was born in Ilford, Essex in 1922. He won an open scholarship to Brentwood School, where he acquired a lasting enjoyment of the English language
physical activity and mathematics. He ran his first cross-country in 1937 and joined his first weightlifting club in 1939, where his interest in Posture was first stimulated

He spent five years in the R.A.F. completing 32 operations as a pilot on a night torpedo-dropping squadron. Then he became a ferry pilot delivering aircraft from Ghana to Cairo, India, Turkey, North Africa and Italy.
After the war he studied medicine at Guy's Hospital, London. In 1953 he wrote an unpublished article on the major part that posture played in pregnancy and childbirth in particular. That article, almost unchanged, is Chapter 10 Posture in Maternity. He also studied the effect of adrenaline production in response to fear, when, as in mdern life, it is not followed by fight or flight, and concluded that exercise was vital to absorb this adrenaline production. He adopted this principle to his own life, and, at 87, he is very glad that he took his own advice.

In 1955 he emigrated to New Zealand, and entered general practice.
He became deeply involved in Sports Medicine. But his main interest was the use of exercise to treat disease, rather than the production of sports champions. He was a founder member of the world's first jogging club. The first to convince endurance athletes of the need for fluids and to maintain blood sugar levels. Knowledge gained in training a racehorse was useful in proposing the Foot Pump, as part of human circulation. By 1958 he used weightlifting exercises and running on patients with hypertension, angina, asthma type 2 diabetes and depression. But weightlifting was considered taboo, and running frowned upon, when "adequate rest" was the catchword, making patient cooperation difficult. In 1968, wanting to know the true meaning of muscle tone and the mechanism which produced it, he formulated all the ideas of Electric Man, which are in the Appendix of his book.
Failing to get articles on Osteoarthritis published, he became aware that posture was likely to play a major role in nearly every branch of medicine, so he wrote the first edition of this book in 1978, which was published in 1985 in New Zealand. The second edition was published, in English, by Japan Publications, Inc. in 1993. In 1981 he gave up general practice to devote his work entirely to Osteoarthritis, Osteoporosis and Backs.
In 1990 he was Guest Speaker on Backs at a major conference in Glasgow, Scotland on the future of medicine. By then he had developed increasing pain and mobility problems from his wartime flying and from 1990 to 1995 he underwent 14 operations on his legs, curtailing his work.

He has been living permanently in England since 1994 and has been finalising his books on Obesity, Old Age (living to 120 and enjoying it) Osteoporosis and Eyesight.

Présentation de l'éditeur

BBC NEWSNIGHT recently described Dr. Vic Barker as "the World's Great Leading Expert on Posture." Dr.Barker advises that you GIVE SOMEONE YOU LOVE, including yourself, A BETTER LIFE. Answers to Back Problems, Osteoarthritis, Blood Circulation, Osteoporosis, Childbirth, Appearance, Postural Obesity, Sexual Problems, Failing Eyesight, Old Age, Sport, Fitness, Cartilage Health Why are so many answers in one book? Because the damge of Bad Posture on almost every branch of medicine has never before been studied, in spite of the fact that Posture is about our framework (skeleton) to which everything is either attachd or inserted. Also because this book destroys the myth that a LIVING thing can WEAR, when only a man-made machine is capable of wearing out. WEAR does not, and cannot occur in living things. In all there are 24 New Concepts in Posture Makes Perfect, for it deals with the one animal, man, that Charles Darwin did not study. Otherwise he might have realised that the fashion which began early in the 17th century of adding heels to footwear, including his own, put evolution into reverse. Heels cause SELF-POLLUTION, and are COUNTER-EVOLUTIONARY. Professor Richard Dawkins has made the same "Counter-Evolutionary"mistake of wearing heels on his footwear. In the Appendix,Electrical Man, the need to recharge the brain is declared, and the probable way this is achieved is detailed, together with the probability that electrical force is used in the division of a cell into two. It is accepted that restriction of blood supply to the brain or heart causes damage. It is claimed that this damaged is due to the reduction of oxygen. But is it due to oxygen lack or electron lack, or both?

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Waiwera International Limited
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 047310184X
• ISBN 13: 9780473101848
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Platt Craig
• Nombre de pages: 278
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible