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Cooking & Food. Health & Fitness. Nonfiction. HTML:A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER In Eat Better Forever, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall gives you all the tools to improve your eating habits, and therefore your life - permanently. And to help it all happen, he's added his 100 healthiest recipes yet. In this ground-breaking book, instead of promising a gimmicky single-fix solution to the challenge of healthy eating, Hugh extracts the knowledge, advice and healthy habits, from cutting edge research into the obesity crisis, to produce 7 simple strategies that will transform your diet and your health. Starting with the blissfully simple message that we all need to Go Whole, he leads us away from the industrial junk and processed foods that are doing so many of us so much harm and returns us to the real foods that nurture us and keep us well. Everything that follows is clear, believable and achievable. From sorting the good carbs from the bad, learning not to fear fat, and looking after our gut, to renegotiating the foods we call 'drinks' and being mindful of when to eat...and when to take a pause... Hugh guides us to a better way of eating that will last us our whole lives. It's all offered up with reassuring tips and switches that help us act on the vital knowledge he imparts. And the 100 recipes that come with it, and their endless variations, make for a lifetime of healthy eating.… (more)
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It’s worth noting that the section on healthy eating take up over half of the book so if you’re mostly looking for a recipe book you are probably better off with one of his existing books on following a plant-based diet. There are some interesting recipes here but I think overall that his previous book Much More Veg has the edge, and if you’re vegan/vegetarian it’s worth noting that there are sections taken up with meat and fish recipes.
Overall this is an interesting read, HFW writes engagingly and honestly about his own food and health journey. Despite not telling me much I didn’t already know, I appreciated his approach and his reference to the most recent research throughout.
1. Go whole
2 Go varied
3 Go with your gut
4. Reduce refined Carbs
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6 Think about your drink
7 eat (and don't eat) mindfully
so overall quite like a lot of other books of this ilk, only with this one he does consult science and tries to use as much of the latest science to inform himself and the reader about what his ideas are and how they work.
Worth a read, literal food for thought.