Kickstart ketosis, lose weight, gain energy and transform your health in just five days.

Pioneering research has shown that a diet that is low in carbs and calories and high in good fats that trigger ketosis can counteract many diseases and boost wellbeing better than water fasts. In The 5-Day Diet, nutrition expert and co-author of The Hybrid Diet, Patrick Holford, provides you with a tried and tested plan to trigger a self-repair process, called autophagy, which renews and rejuvenates your cells, reboots your metabolism and detoxifies your body. This book breaks down the science and how it works while giving you daily meal plans, recipes and exercises.

Whether you are after a quick fix with lasting results or looking to improve overall wellbeing, The 5-Day Diet is a springboard to better health.

Why do some people get really sick, even die from flu, while others don’t? Colds and flu, including Covid-19, are viral diseases that a healthy immune system should be able to fight off with natural immunity. But what is a healthy immune system and how can you promote your own immune power with diet and nutritients?

This book explains:

• How viruses work and where are their weaknesses
• Why animals that make vitamin C rarely succumb to flu or colds.
• The truth about vitamin C and how to use it when you’re infected.
• How black elderberry blocks viral replication.
• Why vitamin D levels crash in winter to make us more susceptible.
• Other critical immune support nutrients from selenium to zinc.
• How intravenous vitamin C saves lives in those with respiratory distress.

The reader will also discover how to restore and maintain a healthy immune system when not infected, complete with recipes for foods and drinks, and what to eat, drink and supplement when you are under attack to shorten duration and severity of colds and flu.

Do you feel overwhelmed, tired, anxious or wired?

Stress is an unavoiadable part of modern life but, while we cannot avoid life's pressures, we can change our reaction to them. If you are stuck in a vicious cycle of stress and fatigue, The Stress Cure will show you how to 'reset' your mind and body to achieve a calmer, more resilient and balanced approach to life.

The Stress Cure will show you how to:

• Uncover your stress triggers and self-defeating negative beliefs
• Stop anxiety and panic
• Sleep well and wake refreshed
• Increase your energy naturally, and escape the sugar and stimulant trap
• Fuel up with energising food and feel-good nutrients
• Manage your time more effectively
• Build resilience to make yourself stress-proof

The Stress Cure offers a unique blend of practical solutions and includes a thirty day action plan, quick fixes to feel better now and rapid relaxation techniques that really work. Written by Susannah Lawson, an expert in stress management, and nutritionist and psychologist Patrick Holford, it offers a comprehensive and effective programme that will help you thrive, not just survive, in today's fast and ever-changing world.

Contrary to popular belief it is possible to prevent arthritis or greatly reduce the pain and inflammation it causes - if you eat the right foods and supplement your diet with certain herbs and nutrients. In this fully revised and updated version of Patrick Holford's classic book on the subject, he shares the latest findings from scientific studies, showing that we can do much without resorting to medication, with its unwelcome side-effects. Comprehensive, practical and reassuring, Say No to Arthritis will enable you to devise an effective anti-arthritis action plan that's right for you. Written by one of the UK's leading nutritionists, features include: *The most effective natural painkillers *How certain fats can fight inflammation *Why food intolerances can be a factor *The best bone-building nutrients and appropriate supplements As well as being packed with information to help you understand arthritis and the many factors that influence it, you will also find an anti-arthritis diet and Patrick's top 30 anti-arthritis recipes.

Optimum nutrition is a revolution in health care - it means giving your body the best possible intake of nutrients to allow you to be as healthy as you can. Through easy-to-follow questionnaires and a simple step-by-step plan THE OPTIMUM NUTRITION BIBLE shows you what to eat and what nutrients to take to live a healthier, happier life.

Discover how to:

• boost your immune system;
• increase your energy and fitness levels;
• prevent serious diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease;
• turn back the ageing clock;
• lower your blood pressure without drugs;
• increase your IQ, memory and mental performance.

You'll also find fascinating information on why the wrong fats can kill and the right fats can heal, and what a well-balanced diet really means.

Based on scientific research and written by one of the world's leading nutrition experts, this book is a must if you care about your health.

Patrick Holford illustrated the connection between nutrition and all aspects of health in his best-selling book THE OPTIMUM NUTRITION BIBLE. In OPTIMUM NUTRITION FOR YOUR CHILD, he reveals how crucial optimum nutrition is for children's general health and development, as well as their behaviour and IQ. He explains why certain foods are so beneficial and why others are damaging, and enables you to identify common problems in children which can be improved or solved with the right foods and supplements. With invaluable advice on getting children to eat healthy food, food plans and practical tips, this book is the definitive guide for parents.

This highly practical, six week health plan is the fastest way to achieve superhealth in six easy weeks. Step by step, top nutrition expert Patrick Holford shows you how to use diet, supplements and eating plans to: Increase your energy; Balance your hormones; Boost your brain power; Tune up your digestion; Increase your immunity; Prevent pain and inflammation; And much more. After only six weeks, you will be healthier, stronger and fitter, with a real basis upon which to build lifelong health. 'This is do-it-yourself health at its very best' - Hazel Courteney, Sunday Times

Food allergies and intolerances are on the increase. They are frequently the cause of many common health problems that simply won't go away. But there are things we can do to deal with food allergies and intolerances. This book will help if you feel you may be intolerant to a food, find it impossible to lose weight or simply have a range of minor symptoms your doctor can't treat. Hidden Food Allergies identifies the most common allergens, helps you to diagnose and allergy, and contains a full action plan to guide you through getting tested, elimination diets, lifestyle and dietary changes. You will discover: All about allergies, and how they are different to food intolerance; Possible causes; The latest breakthroughs in allergy testing; How to follow elimination diets and reintroduce foods safely; How to guard against, treat and reverse food intolerance.

This volume is a guide to nutrition for women who are either planning to concieve, are pregnant or have given birth. It should also help women who are having difficulty conceiving or taking their baby to term. Nutritionist Patrick Holford and journalist Susannah Lawson start with a pre-conception nutrition checklist, moving on to cover nutrition in pregnancy, complete with diet and meal plans and follow up with useful advice about your own nutrition in early partenhood - from beating the baby blues to how to produce the best-quality milk. The final section deals with optimum nutrition for babies and young children, with information about weaning, prevention of allergies and the ideal diet for a healthy child.

FOOD IS BETTER MEDICINE THAN DRUGS is an important and potentially controversial book from top nutritionist Patrick Holford and leading health journalist Jerome Burne. Brilliantly researched and based on solid scientific trials and illuminating case histories, Food is Better Medicine than Drugs will revolutionise the way you think about your health and put you back in charge. The authors reveal how modern medicine has become distorted and is now, for reasons largely to do with profit and power, heavily dependent on prescription drugs. They look at common health problems (pain/arthritis, heart, depression, diabetes, memory, hormones, digestion, breathing, infections etc) and compare the effectiveness of nutrition-based approaches with today's potentially harmful commonly used medicines.

First published in 2005 in B format as The Holford Low-GL Diet, this book quickly established itself as one of Patrick Holford's core nutrition titles. Patrick is at the forefront of research into fast, safe and lasting weight loss, pinpointing that the secret of successful weight loss is to balance your blood sugar. By eating foods with a low glycemic load (GL), you can balance your blood sugar and not only lose weight quickly but keep it off, feel full of energy and enjoy greatly improved health. In the four years since first publication, thousands of people have followed Patrick's low-GL system with great success, and numerous scientific trials have validated the initial research. As well as encouraging weight loss, it has been proven that a low-GL diet can slow down the ageing process, improve mood and memory, lower cholesterol without drugs, prevent and reverse diabetes and heart disease, and cut cancer risk. This expanded and updated edition - THE LOW-GL DIET BIBLE - is packed with new information on why low GL beats low-fat, low-calorie and high-protein diets every time, and why it is number one for weight loss and good health.

TWO SIMPLE RULES

1. Eat no more than 40 GLs a day

2. Eat protein with carbohydate

ONE SIMPLE DIET

"The Holford Low GL Diet

At its heart, one controlling principle:

If you lose blood sugar control, you gain weight and feel hungry and tired.

If you gain blood sugar control, you lose weight and feel happy and full of energy."

THE BOTTOM LINE

When you balance your blood sugar, you'll lose weight fast.

With "The Holford Low GL Diet" you will beat your cravings! You'll enjoy delicious meals, choosing from a wide variety of energy-boosting foods and simple menu plans. The diet is safe and easy to follow, and includes a nutritional supplementation plan to increase your energy and decrease your appetite.

Tried and tested by the Institute for Optimum Nutrition, "The Holford Low GL Diet" is based on the latest medical and nutritional research, made totally accessible. Discover how easy it is to reprogram your body to burn your fat away.

This full-colour cookbook is designed to help parents improve their child's diet. The ground-breaking Food for the Brain study, in which Patrick and his team worked with parents, teachers and school caterers to improve children's nutrition, showed dramatic improvements in energy, mood and concentration amongst the children following the study guidelines. The aim of this book is to share those guidelines and the recipes that produced such great results. Each recipe is carefully designed to provide optimum nourishment to aid with mental development, behaviour and academic performance. Smart Food for Smart Kids also contains menu plans and practical advice on planning, shopping, eating out and dealing with fussy eaters.

This fascinating, practical book is for everyone who values a natural approach to health. Good Medicine covers over 75 of the most common health problems and offers simple things you can do to prevent or reverse that health condition. They are all tried and tested and have been proven to work, both in clinical research but also in practice, with people like you. Each condition includes the following information: * Five or six good medicine solutions - how each solution works and what you need to do * Best and worst foods - which foods you should eat and those you should avoid * Best supplements - the most appropriate supplements You will also find revealing case studies and general advice on the habits that will help you stay healthy, from reducing your stress level to improving your diet and how to monitor which changes make the biggest difference to you. Covering everything from everyday ailments such as the common cold to more serious illnesses, this comprehensive book is the perfect guide to natural approaches to health.

We have a 50 per cent chance of dying from heart or artery disease. However, these devastating diseases can be prevented by using a simple yet powerful medicine - food. In Say No to Heart Disease you will learn how eating the right foods and correctly supplementing your diet can eliminate your chances of a heart attack, lower your blood pressure without drugs, reverse artery disease, maximise recovery after a stroke or heart attack, and add twenty years to your healthy lifespan. Informative and practical, it describes the cardiovascular system and what goes wrong with it, the key theories on the major contributors to heart disease, how to work out your own risk, and which areas of your diet and lifestyle to focus on in order to minimise your risk. It also gives advice on maximising recovery from a heart attack or stroke.

The Hybrid Diet is a radically different, practical and doable way to achieve a healthy weight and substantially reduce your risk of diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer and dementia.

Recent research has shown that a diet that is very low in carbs and high in good fats is effective for weight loss, can counteract many diseases and also help athletic performance and endurance. The drawback is that it is difficult to stick to - because most people love carbs. But, as The Hybrid Diet demonstrates, we don't need to choose. The human body has been designed through millions of years of evolution to burn two different sources of fuel - glucose (which comes from the carbohydrates in fruit and vegetables) and ketones (which are made in the body from fat) - and to switch between them when food is scarce.

The point of The Hybrid Diet is to show you how to make the best use of both options when you need them, and how best to switch between them. In their quest to discover the perfect diet, leading health journalist Jerome Burne and nutrition expert Patrick Holford have examined the latest cutting-edge science and have put together a plan that is sound, simple and delicious - one that is based on how your body works best.

We know that a plant-based, vegan diet is healthy. But how easy is it to incorporate it into our lifestyle? Are there any other steps that need to be taken to ensure our body is getting the nutrients it needs?

In Optimum Nutrition for Vegans, Patrick Holford, bestselling author of over 25 health books, shows you how to achieve optimum nutrition while following a vegan diet. This book features 100 delicious, easy recipes that will nourish your body and your brain. Patrick will also show you how to ensure you are getting enough protein and brain fats, control your sugar and energy, and other other steps that need to be taken for overall health for vegans.

Whether you already follow a plant-based lifestyle or you simply want to incorporate more meat, dairy and egg-free meals into your week, Optimum Nutrition for Vegans will be your guide for overall health.

Your homocysteine level is the single most important statistic you need to know in order to determine how healthy you are and how long you will live. Your 'H level' is now widely understood to be a greater risk factor for heart disease than cholesterol. Homocysteine expert Dr James Braly has shown that a high homocysteine score is a major risk factor for cancer, arthritis and even obesity. In this accessible book Dr Braly and leading nutritionist Patrick Holford show you how to assess your H level and suggest 10 remarkably simple changes to your diet and your lifestyle that will lower your score and dramatically cut your risk of ever having cancer, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and many more serious ailments. Learn how to: test your homocysteine levels; reduce your risk of disease; slow down the ageing process; improve your health; and radically increase your life expectancy.

Patrick Holford is one of the UK's best-known nutrition experts. In this book he outlines his unique detox diet, which in just 9 days will leave you looking and feeling fantastic. He explains why detox works, the crucial role of the liver in detoxing and how to go about detoxing your body. The 9-day plan is easy to follow, spread effortlessly over two weekends and the five days in between. You'll find simple information on how to get started and how to get the most out of your detox, including advice on the five bad eating habits to break, the five new habits to make, and a 9-day menu programme with mouthwatering low-GL recipes. With up-beat advice, based on cutting-edge research, this invaluable book will help you lose weight, boost your energy levels, become clear-headed, and shake off the strains of a high-pressure life.

Patrick Holford's revolutionary diet, based on balancing your blood sugar, is the most safe and effective way to lose weight. In this easy-to-read full-colour book, he highlights the basics of his approach. THE LOW-GL DIET MADE EASY explains the revolutionary Glycemic Load (GL) system and tells you which foods are low-GL 'heroes' and which foods you should avoid, how to get started, portion size and how to add up your GL count. There is also a comprehensive three-week action plan - including shopping lists, day-by-day menus and delicious mouth-watering recipes. THE LOW-GL DIET MADE EASY is essential reading if you want to lose weight safely and effortlessly, improve your health and increase your energy levels.

Burn Fat Fast is quite simply the easiest, healthiest and most effective way to lose weight. Alternate-day dieting, which involves taking in a very low amount of calories on alternate days, is all the rage - this diet takes it to a whole new level.

In this book Patrick Holford outlines how, by combining elements of alternate-day fasting with a low glycemic-load (GL) diet, you can lose fat fast, without going hungry or compromising your health. For those new to the low-GL diet it is a way to keep you blood sugar even. Why do this? Because if your blood sugar level resembles a rollercoaster ride you'll have a lot of insulin in your system - and insulin is the fat-storing hormone.

In Burn Fat Fast you'll find:

• Simple, easy-to-follow guidelines on how the diet works
• An outline of what to eat and what to avoid on both phases of the diet
• Guidance on fitting the diet into your lifestyle
• A short, highly effective fat-burning exercise routine developed by former Gladiator and Olympic athlete Kate Staples

And if you need any more encouragement, consider this: as well as encouraging the storage of fat, insulin promotes disease and ageing, so by combining a low-GL diet with alternate-day fasting you will not only lose fat fast but also improve your health and longevity.

Revised and updated, a guide to winning the war on colds and flus, decreasing allergy potential, and protecting yourself from cancer--all using food Preventing disease and fighting infection can be done, by using a simple yet powerful medicine--food. Understanding nutrition and correctly supplementing your diet is the key to boosting your immune system. Today, our immune systems also face a growing number of enemies, such as stress, pollution, pesticides, and food additives. This guide explains how to meet all these challenges in order to beat infections naturally, supplement for immune strength, assess which vaccinations are necessary, beat sinus infections and hay fever, stay healthy with an HIV-positive status, and much more. Easy-to-follow and practical, this book includes an action plan for immune power, complete with recipes, that will help you stay free from disease, feel great, and perform better.

Ten remarkably simple and effective habits that can help you not just survive but thrive Highly informative and practical, this guide covers 10 areas crucial to a healthy and happy life, including the key to gaining energy and losing weight, how to slow down the aging process, keeping your body and mind well oiled, sharpening your mind and improving your mood, keeping fit and supple, and finding your purpose in life. Some people have boundless energy and never get sick--what are their secrets? Patrick Holford and his team investigated by carrying out a comprehensive "100 percent health survey," which has now been completed by more than 55,000 people. This is a distillation of the fascinating insights provided by the survey's top scorers, and the author's 30 years of experience studying how to achieve good health. It shows readers how to discover where they are on the scale of 100 percent health and provides a new system of good health that is easy to follow and easily measurable--one that will enable people to transform their health and well being, whether they are relatively fit and healthy or struggling with health issues.

How we think and feel is directly affected by what we take into our bodies. Eating the right food has been proven to boost IQ, improve mood and emotional stability, sharpen the memory, and keep the mind young. This book covers a wide range of important topics and should be of interest to anyone who wants to think and feel great.

This groundbreaking book from the UK's leading spokesman on nutrition looks at why millions of people have cravings for substances such as coffee, sugar and alcohol, as well to drugs such as sleeping pills, antidepressants, marijuana and cocaine. It uncovers how the brain becomes addicted and how it can be 'unaddicted' through a combination of diet, supplements and lifestyle factors. The book is written in association with Dr David Miller, who has worked in the addiction field for 25 years and is an expert in relapse prevention. It looks at each of the most common substances that people become addicted to and offers specific advice on how to tackle that particular substance safely and effectively yourself. In-depth yet practical and accessible, HOW TO QUIT WITHOUT FEELING S**T, will allow you to understand why you feel the way you do, whether you have a dependency or have already given up but still feel lousy. The book provides a 12-week action plan for becoming addiction free - without suffering the deeply unpleasant symptoms of withdrawal that most addicts believe they must go through.