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Description
Discover how eating well affects mental and physical health: vegan, veggie or carnivore, this book is for you!
Based on ground-breaking new research, Happy Food For Life extends the conversation around gut health and its effect on our mental and physical health, ensuring every reader is equipped to make the best choices for our all-round health – and the planet too.
From mindful eating to how to get children to eat (almost) anything, and with an in-depth look at the increasingly popular Nordic diet, this book is packed full of simple, healthy recipes and great everyday advice.
The quick, mouth-watering and wholesome recipes include:
creamy salsify tagliatelle with mushrooms
roast chicken soup with crudites
buckwheat risotto with fennel and pea sprout salad
whole roast sweet potato with mint, coriander, chilli and cashew nuts
blood orange and Brussels sprout salad
whole grilled sea bass with green vegetables…
… and many more helping you put the science into practice!
Table of Contents
Part 1: You're as healthy as your planet
Chapter 1: Bottoms up
Chapter 2: Presenting your gut flora
Chapter 3: One with nature
Chapter 4: Dizzying new research
Chapter 5: What most affects your gut flora
Chapter 6: Emotional eating
Chapter 7: Food and well-being
Part 2: Meals that cheer
Chapter 8: Set for success
Chapter 9: How do you really eat?
Chapter 10: Flavours for both big and small
Chapter 11: Emotional upsets
Chapter 12: We're all different
Chapter 13: A Nordic breeze is blowing
Chapter 14: Back to your roots
Epilogue
Recipes
Index
Bibliography
Product details
Published | 24 Dec 2020 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 256 |
ISBN | 9781472974730 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Absolute |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Happy Food For Life is the perfect balance of approachable scientific analysis ... blended with Ekstedt's carefully curated, very approachable recipes... These are refreshing, varied, plant-heavy recipes that help all of us eat better, nurture our guts and boost our immune system. New year's resolutions or not, surely that's more important than ever.
Cass Farrar, GQ
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The Scandi trend has transformed our furniture, crime dramas and the food we eat, and now Happy Food … is poised to change our digestive and mental health.
Good Housekeeping
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Even those who don't trust easy fixes will be impressed…
Irish Examiner
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Based on the idea of enhancing and protecting good mood by fostering gut health, it presents both scientific research and achievable everyday ways to slot the advice into your own lifestyle... Recipes such as roast chicken with spelt and tomato will nourish the soul as well as the body.
Waitrose Food