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Eating well

Health and wellbeing run hand in hand with the food you eat. Here are a few good reads to kickstart a healthy lifestyle, or, to help inspire your next cooking adventure.

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The Paleo diet made easy

Joy Skipper

Book

Follow the example of your caveman ancestors and fuel your body with a diet of meat, fish, vegetables, fruit and roots. This book is your simple and accessible guide to eating delicious food with a huge range of ideas for meals.

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The Whole30 cookbook

Melissa Hartwig

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In this cookbook, Melissa Hartwig delivers over 150 new recipes to help readers prepare healthy meals during their Whole30 and beyond. The programme has helped many people transform their lives by bringing them better sleep and new healthy habits.

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Farm to table Asian secrets

Patricia Tanumihardja

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In this delightful Asian cookbook, you'll learn the secrets of vegetarian and vegan Asian cooking, to create full-flavoured vegetarian dishes that are missing none of the umami associated with meat and dairy.

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The MIND Diet cookbook

Kristin Diversi

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Packed with dishes that are not only tasty but also help improve memory, concentration and mental acuity, this handy cookbook makes following the MIND Diet a snap.

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The low-FODMAP diet

Penny Doyle

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This book clearly explains the theory behind the low-FODMAP diet and offers help and advice on putting into practice through a diet that eliminates potential problem foods and assesses the results.

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Weight Watchers new complete cookbook.

Book

From hearty breakfasts to flavourful dinners, discover new recipes that rely on lean meats, whole grains, and fresh produce. Reflecting the current trends in food, this edition boasts new chapters on creating meals and shopping advice.

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The flexitarian diet

Dawn Jackson. Blatner

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If you'd like to have all the health benefits of a vegetarian diet but can't imagine giving up meat then the Flexitarian Diet is just for you!

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Eat a little better

Sam Kass

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This book lays out Kass's plan to eat a little better. He shares his philosophy and methods to help make it easy to choose, cook, and eat delicious foods without depriving yourself of agency or pleasure.

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Clean & hungry

Lisa Lillien

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The food is still guilt-free, and the portions are still huge...but now Lisa Lillien is highlighting clean ingredients and doing away with artificial and processed foods.

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Brain food

Lisa Mosconi

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Brain Food uses cutting-edge research to highlight the connection between nutrition and our brain's health, busting through pseudoscience and demonstrating how we can all change our diet most effectively.

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