Many new medical books were brought out last year.

According to Ri Ryong Su, department chief of the Kim Man Yu Hospital, it is one of the important issues in maintaining health and enjoying a long life in good health to know well about active oxygen, the main cause of diseases, and improve dietary life and material and cultural life in the direction of controlling its generation in the body.

Book “Health and Longevity and Antioxidation” describes the relations between active oxygen and various diseases, diets that do not produce active oxygen, the methods of reducing active oxygen in daily life and others in plain language so that not only experts but also common readers can understand easily.

The books comprehensively dealing with the medical theory of four physical constitutions, the traditional medicine of Korea and book “Koryo Medicine and Foods Used According to Four Physical Constitutions” compiling the data of therapeutic experience tell readers how to raise curative effects by using Koryo medicines to suit their physical features.

Book “Healthcare of Children Should Begin from the Time of Embryo” gives scientific and practical answers to the problems arising in the management of the health of pregnant women and unborn babies and the care of women after delivery and new-born babies. And it contains many pieces of common knowledge related to the care of women before pregnancy, in the gestational period and after childbirth and the care of new-born babies, drawing the interest of women who want to give birth to and bring up healthy babies.

Book “Fruit and Vegetable Juices Good for Preventing Diseases” enables people to make an effective use of fruits and vegetables, which are often used in dietary life, to prevent and treat diseases, book “Leg Pain-causing Diseases” describes the diseases causing pain in the legs, diagnoses of them and their treatment methods, and book “Skin Care Everybody Can Take” explains in plain language the skin care methods to maintain youth and beauty in different aspects. All the books attract the attention of readers.

Among the books published by the Public Health Publishing House last year are a book introducing in detail the symptoms and treatment methods which should not be missed in diagnosing and treating various diseases caused by diabetes and other metabolic disturbances, a reference book which is helpful for knowing about the relationship between electromagnetic fields and organisms to protect and promote health and life, and a book related to the care of the health of men.