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The Health Habit by Amantha Imber was a finalist in the Australian Business Book Awards 2024 for Health and Wellbeing. This easy-to-use, practical guide is inspired by the latest scientific research to help you eat healthier, boost your energy, and sleep better. Are you trapped in... Read More
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The Health Habit by Amantha Imber was a finalist in the Australian Business Book Awards 2024 for Health and Wellbeing. This easy-to-use, practical guide is inspired by the latest scientific research to help you eat healthier, boost your energy, and sleep better.

Are you trapped in a cycle of unhealthy habits? You are not alone β€” we all have unique barriers that hinder us from making lasting changes to our health.

In The Health Habit, psychologist Dr Amantha Imber moves away from the one-size-fits-all approach and brings together:

  • The specific psychological barriers preventing you from achieving better health.
  • Cutting-edge research into diet, fitness, and sleep, conducted by professors at institutions like Harvard and Oxford, and health experts such as Dr Norman Swan, Dr Layne Norton, and Jessie Inchauspe.
  • The latest behavioural science on how to make lasting changes.
  • An easy method to create your personalised, actionable plan to change your habits.

Amantha also shares her journey of overcoming health challenges. She conquered a sugar addiction, adopted a more structured exercise and diet regimen, and resolved her chronic insomnia. Amantha managed to kick her sugar cravings, can now leg press three times her body weight, and enjoys eight hours of sleep almost every night. She did this not through greater willpower but by using her expertise in behavioural psychology to develop healthier habits.

Packed with bite-sized advice, The Health Habit is designed for anyone stuck in a cycle of repeating the same unhealthy habits and who seeks practical solutions to transform their health for the better.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781761342363

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 January 2024

Country: Australia

Imprint: Penguin Life Australia

Illustration: black and white

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 304

About the Author

Dr Amantha Imber is an organisational psychologist and founder of behaviour change consultancy Inventium. Amantha is also the host of the number one ranking life improvement podcast How I Work, which has had over 5 million downloads, where she interviews some of the world's most successful people about their habits, strategies and rituals. In 2019, Amantha was named as one of the Australian Financial Review's 100 Women of Influence. In 2021, she won the Thinkers50 Innovation Award (described by the Financial Times as the "Oscars for Management Thinking"), which recognises the thinker who has contributed the most to the understanding of innovation globally over the last two years. Amantha's thoughts have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Entrepreneur and Fast Company and she is the author of three bestselling books, The Creativity Formula, The Innovation Formula and Time Wise, which unlocks the productivity secrets of the world's most successful people.

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