An eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and production of ultra-processed food.

It's not you, it's the food.

We have entered a new 'age of eating' where most of our calories come from an entirely novel set of substances called Ultra-Processed Food, food which is industrially processed and designed and marketed to be addictive. But do we really know what it's doing to our bodies?

Join Chris in his travels through the world of food science and a UPF diet to discover what's really going on. Find out why exercise and willpower can't save us, and what UPF is really doing to our bodies, our health, our weight, and the planet (hint: nothing good).

For too long we've been told we just need to make different choices, when really we're living in a food environment that makes it nigh-on impossible. So this is a book about our rights. The right to know what we eat and what it does to our bodies and the right to good, affordable food.

Enhance your yoga practice with this gift set by leading online yin yoga instructor Kassandra Reinhardt of Yoga with Kassandra.

Embrace the life-changing practice of yoga with this gift set from popular YouTuber and yin yoga instructor Yoga with Kassandra. Including the My Yoga Journey guided journal, I Radiate Joy mini book of affirmations, and a soothing citrus and bergamot scented soy candle, this kit has everything you need to begin your yoga journey.

As you embark on your yoga journey, this gift set provides an inspiring toolkit to help you accomplish your goals. Light the scented candle as you meditate, track your habit progress and daily thoughts in the 180+ entry guided journal before and after each yoga session, and turn to the mini book of affirmations for inspiration.

JOURNAL FOR REFLECTION: Take your yoga practice beyond the mat by using the My Yoga Journey guided journal to reflect before and after each session. With space for 180+ entries, the journal includes prompts and space to record the date, personal affirmations, set intentions, and reflect on your yoga and daily thoughts

HABIT TRACKER: Stay motivated and track your yoga progress every day with a colorful habit tracker at the beginning of the My Yoga Journey journal

INSPIRATIONAL AFFIRMATIONS: The included mini book is filled with 150 affirmations from Kassandra herself, encouraging you on your path of mindfulness and self-care

SOOTHING SCENTED CANDLE: Add some ambiance and aromatherapy to your next yoga session with a delightful soy candle with citrus and bergamot scent

Ja, die ketodieet is al lankal bekend; jy het daarvan gehoor maar verstaan die konsep nie heeltemal nie en dink dis te duur. Of miskien het jy dit getoets maar is oorweldig deur ’n oorvloed dikwels teenstrydige inligting en het jy moed opgegee. Miskien volg jy dit noukeurig maar het jy nuwe inspirasie nodig. Daar kom in elk geval altyd nuwe inligting na vore. Ná die wegholsukses van sy eerste boek twee jaar gelede, Living the Ultimate Keto Lifestyle, het Hendrik Marais besluit dis tyd om die ketogeniese leefstyl aan selfs meer mense bekend te stel, terwyl hy aanhangers terselfdertyd ’n vereenvoudigde uiteensetting van die jongste neigings en ’n volledige stel maklike en smaaklike resepte wou bied.

Keto Lifestyle: Maklik is presies dit: ’n Gids vir die implementering van ’n ketogeniese dieet en periodieke vas – met maaltydplanne wat eenvoudig is om te volg – wat sinvol asook begroting- en beurtkragvriendelik is, en met al die truuks om tyd te bespaar. Jy sal mal wees oor die geurige resepte en selfs maniere vind om jou vriende te onthaal met spyskaarte wat by hierdie leefstyl inpas. Maar daar’s soveel meer: inligting oor voedingswaarde, en raad oor oefening en maniere om jou motivering te handhaaf.

The brains behind the #1 bestselling Carbs & Cals are back! This time with the perfect smoothie book for the health-concious. Featuring 80 delicious recipes, the book is beautifully presented showing detailed nutritional information for every smoothie. Whether you're on a low-calorie, high-fibre or high-protien diet, or just want to achieve your 5-a-day fruit & veg, this is the ideal smoothie book for you. FEATURES; 80 delicious smoothie recipes. Beautiful image of every smoothie. Photos of ingredients in each recipe. Values for carbs, calories, protein, fat, fibre and 5-a-day fruit & veg. 275 photos of individual ingredients so you can create your own recipes. Intro explaining the benefits of smoothies.

Yes, the keto diet has been around for a while; you’ve heard about it but don’t fully understand the concept and think it’s too expensive. Or perhaps you tried it but were overwhelmed with a deluge of often conflicting information, so you gave up. Possibly, you are following it faithfully but need new inspiration. Besides, there’s always new information coming to the fore. Following on the runaway success of his first book two years ago, Living the Ultimate Keto Lifestyle, Hendrik Marais has decided that it’s time to introduce the ketogenic lifestyle to even more people, while offering devotees a simplified breakdown of the latest trends, and a completely new set of easy and delicious recipes.
 
Keto Lifestyle: Simple  is exactly that – a guide to implementing a ketogenic diet with intermittent fasting – with meal plans that are simple to follow – that makes sense, is both budget- and loadshedding-friendly, and with all the tricks to save you time. You’ll love the tasty recipes and even find ways to entertain your friends with menus that fall within this lifestyle. But there is so much more: nutritional information, advice on exercise and ways to maintain your motivation.

A cookbook rooted in shamanic wisdom of 90+ plant-based recipes that will help you grow stronger, healthier, and younger, and reverse the loss of vitality associated with aging.

Growing older is inevitable. Aging is preventable. In Grow a New Body Cookbook, 90+ delicious, nutrient-dense, plant-based recipes will help you go back to an ancient way of eating that promises to help you on the road to lifelong health. Shamanic practitioner Alberto Villoldo will show you how to turn your kitchen into a shaman’s laboratory so that you can grow potent probiotics to upgrade the health of your biome. Alberto dives deep into the science of why how we eat now is wreaking such havoc on us—and how we can reverse the damage. Finally, eating the foods recommended in this book will allow you to grow a new brain that supports you in forging a profound connection with Nature and experiencing a renewed sense of purpose in life.

The delicious recipes, beautifully photographed by James Beard nominee Paul Brissman and developed by celebrated chef Conny Andersson, feature superfoods that will begin to repair your body and brain from years of wear and tear.

The plant-based, nutrient-dense, antioxidant-rich broth, beverage, mezze, and main dish recipes include:

• silky white bean soup with tomato basil relish
• chlorophyll moringa broth
• matcha energy tonic
• activated charcoal latte
• chickpea crepe with spicy tomato chutney and coconut yogurt
• tasted sorghum risotto and mushrooms
• grilled zucchini "vindaloo" with kachumber salad

Lose weight, look younger and feel better with the help of one nutritional superpower: FIBRE.

Nutritionist Kristen Stavridis (@nutritionistkristen) is on a mission to make fibre the future of healthy eating. Experts say that 90% of us are not eating enough of this life-changing nutrient. Increasing our fibre intake to 30g a day is transformative for health and has huge benefits – from beating the bloat and improving skin tone, to weight loss, improved immunity, clear mental focus and even disease prevention. But sometimes 30g can feel daunting. How do we know where to start?

The Fibre Fix makes it easy. This practical, evidence-based guide shows how to enjoy fibre-forward foods and notice the lasting impact on how you look and feel. Kristen explains what fibre actually is, why it is important, and how it's been overlooked in the quest for tracking macros. She simplifies 'plant points', dispels the myths, debunks the fads and provides clear actionable steps and expert advice, giving you everything you need to harness the power of fibre and hit your daily 30g target with ease.

Kristen includes ingredient swaps and 30 delicious, nutritious recipes, from balanced breakfasts, smart snacks to filling, vibrant meals. With recipes like Green Goddess Shakshuka and Creamy Bean and Leek Orzo, she makes it simple to embrace a fibre-rich, balanced diet – whether you're vegetarian, vegan or otherwise. Kristen also shares sample weekly plans to get you started, as well as an index of the best high-fibre foods.

Forget obsessing over protein. Focus on fibre to transform your health for good.

My Low Carb-Kombuis is ’n maklike, toeganklike stapvir- stap-gids tot ’n laekoolhidraat-lewenstyl. Dit verskaf riglyne oor watter kos om uit jou dieet te sny en wat om in te sluit vir optimale gesondheid en hope energie. Met meer as 50 watertandresepte, weeklikse maaltydplanne en inkopielyste om jou vinnig op dreef te kry! My Low Carb-Kombuis vertel jou alles oor: Hoe om oor te skakel na ’n laekoolhidraatdieet; Hoe om gewig te verloor op ’n laekoolhidraatdieet; Hoe ’n laekoolhidraatdieet kan help met seliaksiekte, diabetes, chroniese moegheid, glutenintoleransie en inflammasie; Hoe om smaaklike laekoolhidraatgeregte voor te berei, soos bolognaise, laekoolhidraat-broodrolletjies, geroosterde varkvleis, nacho’s, amandel-en jogurtplaatkoekies en selfs romerige kaaskoek.

“Mealtimes have always given me my most precious memories! I pour much love into the dishes I create – with fresh ingredients, real food, and a constant eye on what is healthy.”

Take a culinary journey homewards with Trish as your guide and host. For many years, she’s been gathering recipes from friends, family, chefs and foodies from all over the globe and preparing food that her friends and family devour.

Uncomplicated to create, and with easy-to-source ingredients, everyone can serve these treasured low-carb recipes with success.

Think of long tables filled with abundant and delicious food shared with love and laughter. This is Trish’s signature style: comforting, delectable and healthy

A revolutionary diet cookbook and weight-loss plan - eat filling meals to take back control of your hunger and your weight.

Restriction only leads to short-term results. And hunger drives weight regain. If you want to lose weight for life, the secret is feeling full. In this revolutionary cookbook, Lindsay Wilson - weight loss coach and creator of online community Filling Meals - shares 100 fuss-free recipes that aren't focused on counting calories but instead focused on keeping you full.

By making sure your first two meals of the day are filling, you can eat whatever you'd normally have for dinner, and the weight still falls off (even if you're not exercising). When you're no longer hungry, you eat healthier portion sizes, and you stop snacking. Your food noise fades away and, as a result, so does your excess weight.

If you're tired of tracking meals, counting calories, restricting what you eat, and constantly being hungry, this brand-new approach is for you. Start your weight loss today with these 100 delicious, quick and easy recipes:

• Choc-Cherry Overnight Oats
• Spectacular Shakshuka
• Mexican Chicken Salad
• Chorizo Potato Bake
• Chicken Pesto Pasta

An indispensable everyday recipe book for people with coeliac disease and other gluten intolerances The Gluten-Free Cookbook proves that eating is still one of life's great pleasures even without wheat, rye, and barley - with more than 230 delicious, gluten-free recipes for you to try. Each recipe has been carefully tested and includes a full nutritional breakdown so you can enjoy meals that are healthy and balanced without compromising on flavour. The book also features a full guide to gluten-containing foods, with a list of gluten-free alternatives, creative ideas on storecupboard essentials and advice on how to tackle dinner parties and eating out. Plus a step-by-step guide on gluten-free baking showing you how to make gluten-free pasta, bake perfect bread and cakes, and work with pastry. The Gluten-Free Cookbook includes everything you need to have a delicious and varied gluten-free diet.

Being diagnosed with IBS shouldn't mean that you have to miss out on great food. Written by a leading expert in FODMAP research and designed to manage symptoms, the 150 flavoursome recipes in this book will allow you to enjoy every meal - and even treats - with confidence. 'The recipes look delicious and you don't need to be masterchef standard to attempt them' -- **** Reader review 'This book saved my life' -- **** Reader review 'Inspiring' -- **** Reader review 'Very informative with good recipes'-- **** Reader review 'This is a really good book, easy to follow recipes and very tasty. Has definitely helped ease IBS symptoms' -- **** Reader review 'Brilliant book. Simple and easy to follow with great recipes. Finally feel like I'm not missing out!!' -- **** Reader review ********************************************************************************************* In this book you'll find 150 mouth-watering recipes that will help you to beat IBS and still enjoy delicious meals. FODMAPs ((Fermentable Oligosaccharides, Disaccharides, Monosaccharides And Polyols) are poorly absorbed short-chain sugars that your body finds difficult to digest which can cause IBS. In this book you will find an explanation of the role of FODMAPs and which foods to avoid as a result as well as advice on how to adapt the recipes if you are vegetarian or vegan. Based on the cutting-edge Low-FODMAP Diet, all of these recipes are gluten-free and low in the sugars that can cause IBS symptoms. You'll find ideas for breakfasts, light bites, main meals and desserts, with recipes ranging from filling soups and salads to decadent cookies and cakes. With its 150 delicious and nutritious recipes designed to be enjoyed by all the family, and its stunning full colour photography, this will set you on the way to feeling great again!

From the author of the international bestseller Eat Dirt, a 30-day plan to burn fat, fight inflammation, and reverse disease using the keto diet.

Today, the ketogenic diet is the world's fastest growing diet, and with good reason. When practiced correctly, it has been proven to burn fat, reduce inflammation, balance hormones and gut bacteria. Unfortunately, many people remain unaware of several key factors that are crucial to the diet's success, setting them up for frustration, failure, and relapse.

In KETO DIET, bestselling author Dr. Josh Axe sets the record straight, offering thorough, step-by-step guidance to achieving lifelong health. Unlike other books on the subject, KETO DIET identifies and details five different ketogenic protocols, and explains why picking the right one for your body and lifestyle is fundamental to your success.

Complete with shopping lists, delicious recipes, complimentary exercise routines, and accessible explanations of the science, KETO DIET will give readers all the tools they need to say goodbye to stubborn fat and chronic disease once and for all.

Yoga Gym gives you the training, nutrition and motivational tools to sculpt a strong body and build a strong mind. This effective 28-day yoga training plan will get you strong and supple, build strength, improve mobility and burn fat. Whether you're a yoga fanatic, regular exerciser or complete novice, Yoga Gym is a totally new way to work out. Choose from over 150 poses and exercises, or follow the 28-day plan. - Blends together traditional yoga poses with dynamic bodyweight strength training techniques - Designed for both men and women of all fitness levels - An effective, easy to follow, do-anywhere workout - Contains guidance on diet and information about yoga philosophy

The companion cookbook to Josh Axe's bestselling KETO DIET, featuring 75 full-color photos and 125 recipes to help you lose weight, balance hormones, boost brain health, and reverse disease.

The ketogenic diet is the world's fastest growing diet, and with good reason. When practiced correctly, the keto diet has been proven to burn fat, reduce inflammation, fight cancer, balance hormones and gut bacteria, improve neurological diseases, and even increase lifespan. Unfortunately, many people remain unaware of several important factors that are crucial to the diet's success, setting them up for frustration, failure, and relapse.

In KETO DIET COOKBOOK, Josh Axe builds on his New York Times bestseller KETO DIET, offering 125 mouthwatering, keto-friendly recipes to lose weight, fight inflammation, and optimize your body's function, no matter your lifestyle or budget. Featuring a dazzling range of options for every meal of the day -- plus craving-busting snacks and decadent desserts -- KETO DIET COOKBOOK will never leave you without a delicious, satisfying option whenever hunger strikes.

Complete with 75 full-color photos, shopping lists, a meal plan, and explanations of the science confirming the diet's powerful effects, KETO DIET COOKBOOK gives you all the recipes and inspiration you'll need to say goodbye to stubborn fat and chronic disease once and for all.

Over 120 no-fuss meals that celebrate your favourite veg, social media sensation Max La Manna delivers simple vegan food with big flavour to keep things quick and easy.

This stunning book delivers solutions with a chapter dedicated to each of our most loved but also commonly wasted ingredients and recipes for how to cook with them, from bread to tomatoes, onions and bananas. Learn recipe hacks and tips on how to get the best out of food, including practical ideas for using up the whole vegetable, transforming leftovers and the best ways to store foods to keep them fresh.

Covering everything from weeknight dinners and comforting one-pots, to sweet treats and instant crowd-pleasers, this book embraces the power of plants and shows how anyone can get delicious, veg-packed meals on the table with joy and ease.

With minimal ingredients that are easy to source for every recipe, let's make:

• Speedy Cherry Tomato Fettucine,
• Black Pepper Tofu Stir-fry,
• Butter 'Chicken',
• One-Pan Lasagne,
• Fluffy Potato Rolls,
• Carrot Peacan Cake with Orange Drizzle and more.

For all keto lifestyle followers, this 52-week planner is the ultimate guide to planning your meals and tracking your progress! It guides you on your keto diet pathway, with or without intermittent fasting, in an easy and fun way right from starting a keto diet, and throughout maintaining the lifestyle.

Using a practical, visual and affirming approach, this stand-alone journal offers blank, customisable templates to help you plan your meals and track your progress as you embark on your keto journey.

As both a journal and planner, this book does not include any recipes or meal plans, and so it is also the perfect companion to author Hendrik Marais’ Living the Ultimate Keto Lifestyle: A South African Guide & Cookbook.

Devised by Dr. Pierre Dukan, a French medical doctor who has spent his career helping people to lose weight, the Dukan Diet rejects counting calories and promises permanent weight loss while allowing adherents to eat as much as they like.

The Diet: 4 Easy Steps to Permanent Weight Loss

Phase one: Attack
Using Dr. Dukan's True Weight calculator, dieters determine a reasonable and healthy weight loss goal. Then they begin the Dukan Attack phase a two-to-seven-day period during which only unlimited lean protein and a daily Oat bran galette (or pancake) are consumed and dramatic weight loss is achieved.

Phase Two: Cruise
Dieters alternate days of unlimited lean protein with days of protein combined with healthful vegetables until they reach their True Weight.

Phase Three: Consolidation
Dieters stay on this phase for 5 days for every pound lost. At this point the diet allows unlimited protein and vegetables, and other foods (such as cheese and bread) are reintroduced. Dieters are also allowed two weekly celebration meals to stave off boredom.

Phase Four: Stabilization
This is the maintenance portion of the plan, in which followers are allowed to eat whatever they like without regaining weight--provided that they follow 3 unbreakable rules including eating only unlimited lean protein one set day per week.

For each phase, The Dukan Diet offers clear simple guidelines for long term success. The Dukan Diet is the perfect diet for people who want fast weight loss, that can be maintained without counting calories or weighing portions.

A powerful guide to restoring body-mind health, with holistic tools to heal our bodies through nervous system work, blood sugar regulation and nutrient-dense foods.

In this accessible guide, packed with simple day-to-day solutions, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner Marina Wright (@marinawrightwellness) draws on her experience helping thousands of clients and followers combat weight gain, brain fog, anxiety, insomnia, fatigue, aches and pains, by tackling the underlying culprit: chronic stress.

Our body’s natural stress response triggers the release of the hormone cortisol to help us handle immediate challenges. However, when this response becomes chronic instead of short-term, it can lead to adverse health effects. With Marina’s five-step nutrition and lifestyle program, we can build self-awareness, rebalance our hormones, regulate our circadian rhythms, and discover the long-term path to holistic health.

In The Cortisol Reset Plan, you’ll find:

• customisable questionnaires to assess your symptoms
• key information to understand how and where stress shows up in your body
• stress-reducing recipes and comprehensive nutritional guidance
• a selection of easy-to-implement daily habits to calm, nourish, and balance your body
• and so much more.

Joe Wicks is back with another instalment of 100 brand-new delicious recipes and speedy, effective workouts. The Fat-Loss Plan shows how to adopt a lean lifestyle in a way that suits you.

Inside the book is a combination of reduced carb, post workout and snacks and sweet treat recipes – all incredibly tasty and easy to make in 15 minutes flat. Thanks to sample weekly plans and ingredients lists, Joe makes it simple for you to prep like a boss and eat well every day of the week.

Joe has more than 4 million followers on social media where fans share their personal journeys towards a leaner, fitter lifestyle. The Lean in 15 titles won platinum and gold awards at the Specsavers Nielsen book awards. Joe’s first book Lean in 15: The Shift Plan has become the bestselling diet book of all time and all his books have been non-fiction number one bestsellers.

Start your journey to better health and fitness now with The Body Coach.

A practical food-based guide to managing menopause symptoms – from perimenopause and beyond – through simple and delicious recipes

Food for Menopause by Dr Linia Patel is packed with 80 super tasty, appealing recipes – perfect for busy lives.

You might already know a bit about menopause symptoms or you might believe it's something to think about some time in the future. But studies show that there's lots you can do from your thirties to make your menopausal years easier.

Dr Linia Patel's friendly, authoritative cookbook explains how to make your menopause work for you by setting out the impact of nutrition on the body. It's about mastering your mid-life body by knowing exactly what to put on your plate. For example, why do you get brain fog, hot flushes or mood swings, which nutrients should you be getting more of to combat these, and what recipes can you make to pack in more of those nutrients? There's so much you can factor into your diet to see you through perimenopause, menopause and beyond and crucially to enable you to THRIVE, not just survive.

Part 1: Understanding your body and your symptoms
Part 2: Eating for success
Part 3: Living for success
Part 4: Recipes for success – breakfast, lunch, snacks, dinner, weekend meals, sides and extras, sweet treats and drinks

If you’re tired of chasing the latest diet fad only to find that you’ve gained weight, it’s time to try an entirely different approach. The Daniel Fast for Weight Loss succeeds where other programs fail because it focuses on your relationship with God as well as on your relationship with food. Once you discover the pleasures of eating the food God has provided for optimum health, you will not want to turn back. The Daniel Fast for Weight Loss offers a strategic, biblically based plan backed by solid research that will eliminate your cravings and help you to drop those unwanted pounds once and for all.

Susan Gregory, “The Daniel Fast Blogger” and bestselling author of The Daniel Fast, is back with a spiritual and practical roadmap to this wildly popular 21-day fast for anyone who wants to lose weight and develop a lifestyle of health in a way that honors God. Way beyond a diet plan, The Daniel Fast for Weight Loss includes more than 90 new recipes, multiple tips for successful fasting, a 21-day devotional, and practical guidance for maintaining weight loss and good eating habits even after you complete your Christ-centered fasting experience.

Embark on a life-changing journey toward happiness and confidence about the body God designed for you.

Bestselling author Dr. Sara Gottfried shares a new, female-friendly keto diet that addresses women’s unique hormonal needs, so readers can shed pounds and maintain the loss more easily.

It’s no surprise that most diet plans don’t work for women—most health studies are based on men instead of women, so women have no choice but to follow plans that were created by and for men. The trouble is: women’s bodies don’t work the same way. Popular programs can actually make it harder for women to lose weight, because they can wreak havoc on a woman’s complex and delicate hormonal system.

New York Times bestselling author Dr. Sara Gottfried has spent her career demystifying hormones and helping patients improve their health with personalized medicine. In Women, Food, and Hormones, she presents the Gottfried Protocol, a science-based, road-tested plan designed to reset and balance your hormones and accelerate fat loss.

Featuring a female-friendly fasting protocol and ketogenic diet that’s tailor-made for women, the Gottfried Protocol is designed to:

• Work with, not against, women’s hormones—unlike other keto plans
• Improve detoxification and blood sugar levels while decreasing stress, hunger, and cravings
• Target belly fat and reduce inflammation
• Increase levels of key anti-aging hormones

Complete with essential troubleshooting tips and more than 50 delicious and filling recipes, Women, Food, and Hormones is your all-in-one-guide to hormonal balance and a healthy new you.

""If your 'weighty thinking' does not change, then even if you lose weight you'll retain an overwhelming subconscious urge to gain it back. It's less important how quickly you lose weight, and more important how holistically you lose weight; you want your mind, your emotions, and your body to all 'lose weight.' Weight that disappears from your body but not from your soul is simply recycling outward for a while " "but is almost certain to return. It's self-defeating, therefore, to struggle to drop excess weight unless " "you are also willing to drop the thought-forms that initially produced it and now hold it in place."" -- Marianne Williamson What is the connection between spirituality and weight loss? Best-selling author Marianne Williamson is about to answer that question for you in her groundbreaking new book, bringing you 21 spiritual lessons to help you surrender your weight forever. These lessons form a holistic paradigm for weight loss, addressing the spiritual, emotional, and psychological elements involved in what Williamson refers to as "conscious weight loss." If you are a food addict, a compulsive eater, or someone who for any reason sees food as the enemy, this book is for you. "A Course in Weight Loss" addresses the true causal root of your weight-loss issues: a place within you where you have forgotten your divine perfection. This forgetfulness has confused not only your mind but also your body, making you reach for that which cannot sustain you . . . and reject that which does. As your mind reclaims its spiritual intelligence, your body will reclaim its natural intelligence as well. The 21 lessons in this book will take you on a deep, sacred journey. One step at a time, you will learn to shift your relationship with yourself--and your body--from one of fear to one of love. And you will begin to integrate the various parts of yourself--mind, body, and spirit--to become, once again, and in all ways, the beautiful and peaceful person you were created to be. As Williamson writes: "When it comes to your enjoyment of eating, your best days are not behind you but ahead of you " So get ready to begin a new relationship with food . . . and with yourself.

Why is the scale moving in the wrong direction even though I haven’t changed my diet or exercise habits? Time and again, this is the question Dr. Mary Claire Haver’s patients asked. At first, a practicing OB/GYN, she’d dutifully advise what she’d been taught in medical school: eat less and work out more. But that standard advice didn’t solve the problems caused by perimenopause and menopause because back then she—and so many other doctors—hadn’t taken into account the physiological factors affecting women. They tend to store fat, they can have a hard time accessing that stored fat as active fuel, and their hormonal fluctuations in midlife exacerbate the situation.

Then, Dr. Haver found herself in this exact predicament with the added issues of low energy, hot flashes, and brain fog. So she set out to develop a nutrition program that would meet her own and her patients’ needs once and for all. Now, more than 100,000 women have found success in Dr. Haver’s unique plan for losing dangerous belly fat and reducing menopausal symptoms by following her three interconnected strategies:

• Fuel Refocus: Starting in their thirties, women need a specific ratio of healthy fats, lean protein, and quality carbohydrates to optimize their overall health and efficiently burn fat as fuel.
• Intermittent Fasting: 16 hours of fasting with a flexible 8-hour eating window coaxes the body to draw energy from stored fat and decreases inflammation.
• Anti-inflammatory Nutrition: Limit added sugars, processed carbs, chemical additives and preservatives and layer in anti-inflammatory foods like leafy greens, olive oil, berries, nuts, and tomatoes.

With these three principles working together, women can lose the weight they tend to gain in middle age as well as enjoy newfound energy, better sleep, less brain fog, and fewer hot flashes. Featuring forty delicious recipes, six weeks of easy-to-follow meal plans, shopping lists, and success stories of women who have changed their lives on this lifestyle plan, The Galveston Diet—named for Dr. Haver’s hometown—will revolutionize the conversation around health and empowerment during menopause and perimenopause, with health benefits that last a lifetime.