The Kitchen Prescription: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: 101 delicious everyday recipes to revolutionise your gut health

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We need to stop bombarding children 24/7 with food adverts. Also, culturally, in schools and hospitals and at home, we need to start cooking better.” A diet of highly refined, high-sugar, high-fat and highly processed foods has proven toxic for humans; highly addictive but one that our bodies have not evolved to process. The consequences in the US are already dire; 70 per cent of the population is overweight or obese, and 40 per cent have metabolic syndrome, which means they suffer from obesity, bad cholesterol or elevated blood sugar. Seventy-three thousand limbs are amputated every year in the US because of diabetes. What started in the 1950s with the allure of the American fridge, the drive-thru and the baked Alaska, now threatens to destroy the fabric of our society.

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To celebrate the publication of The Kitchen Prescription, we are gifting someone a virtual fridge exploration with Saliha, and a goody hamper full of gut health-friendly items. During the 45 minute session with Saliha, you will take her through your fridge and she will suggest ways to improve what is in there for optimum gut health. But, compiling my shopping list, there were quite a few ingredients that aren’t available via my usual online shop. Where I live, there is no Waitrose and no speciality Asian shops. So I’m going to have to improvise. Our bodies were created for periods of hunger and starvation. They’re made for processing plants and natural foods,” she says of the mismatch between our biology and SAD foods. Her new book, The Kitchen Prescription, which argues that food is medicine, contains over 100 recipes that are good for the gut.She’s seen people whose autoimmune health conditions have reversed because of what they perceive as changes in their food levels. It is incredibly humbling and empowering to be the first doctor to win MasterChef because there are food related ailments that I can relate to in a way that not many other people can. Outside of the Trust, how has your journey as a chef evolved? Second, there have been few books that focus gut health and how to steer your food to help your biome. Dr Ahmed writes as a doctor but also as an experienced and talented chef. This is the kind of food I want to eat, if it helps my health that’s an added bonus. Eating well doesn't need to be dull food and deprivation - it should be eating a wonderfully varied, vibrant and exciting range of foods. In The Kitchen Prescription, gastroenterologist Dr Saliha Mahmood Ahmed draws on her love of good food and her expertise in gut health to create 101 recipes that are easy to make, incredibly delicious to eat and will effortlessly keep your gut and digestion in tip-top condition. Our servers are getting hit pretty hard right now. To continue shopping, enter the characters as they are shown

The Kitchen Prescription: THE SUNDAY TIMES - Hachette The Kitchen Prescription: THE SUNDAY TIMES - Hachette

Fabulous recipe book - the photographs are stunning and the food theory is so interesting. My copy arrived yesterday so today was Masala Cottage Pie (gorgeous) and I'm already putting together a menu for the rest of the week.If you’re attempting to make a change in your own eating patterns, Mahmood-Ahmed cautions taking up a restrictive diet, in favour of eating a lot of whole foods. The more diversely we eat, the lower our risk of heart disease, diabetes, obesity, depression, and the more enhanced our immunity. This is a book you’ll be reaching for time and again, because these recipes are a joy to eat and fuss free, and you can feel happy in the knowledge you’ll be helping your body to stay healthy too. Sign up for our newsletter to receive the latest Yellow Kite Books news, author exclusives, offers and competition details I’m excited to try the recipes in this book having read through the theory part first. It looks as though this is going to be a whole new approach to cooking. The recipes look good and the photos are lush.