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

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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. The reasons the UK has led the way in adopting the SAD diet are two-fold, according to Henry Dimbleby, cofounder of the Leon restaurant chain and author of the National Food Strategy. 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 Kitchen Prescription ebook by Saliha Mahmood Ahmed

Biography: Dr Saliha Mahmood Ahmed is a Gastroenterology Doctor, winner of MasterChef 2017 and author of Foodology and Khazana, which won the Observer Food Monthly Best Cookbook of the Year 2019.I am working as a specialist registrar in hepatology and gastroenterology, so essentially the liver, the digestive system and the bowels are my specialty. Her work in the kitchen, in the hospital, in NHS canteens and in the wider community is to be hugely admired! These foods have led to the disease of civilisation we see today: heart disease, strokes, high blood pressure, obesity, cholesterol problems and, it’s thought, certain cancers.

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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.They’re made for processing plants and natural foods,” she says of the mismatch between our biology and SAD foods. Vanquishing the toxic interaction between our evolved appetite and the commercial incentives of food companies might seem like an impossible task, but experts believe it is possible. The former chief economist of the Bank of England, Andy Haldane, warned in November last year that the worsening health of the British people is holding back economic growth for the first time since the Industrial Revolution.

The Kitchen Prescription: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: 101 The Kitchen Prescription: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: 101

I started in September 2022, however my first ever job as a junior doctor (FY1) was at St Mary’s over a decade ago. Dieting is forbidden and it is easy for me to concentrate on looking after my gut bugs as in incentive.The study, says van Tulleken, highlights the role of acrylamide, a molecule produced by deep frying, which is linked to brain inflammation. The Trust has recently launched a menu of budget buster meals in response to the cost-of-living crisis and to encourage people to eat more healthily. The books featured on this site are aimed primarily at readers aged 13 or above and therefore you must be 13 years or over to sign up to our newsletter. Also lots of ways to add vegetables that the kids won’t even notice like the shredded cabbage in the noodles. 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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We need to reduce the shame around weight and start to understand that we are all victims of a food system designed to make us sick. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. 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.The more diversely we eat, the lower our risk of heart disease, diabetes, obesity, depression, and the more enhanced our immunity. I'm the sort of person who needs to know when I need to start prepping and cooking and so it's a pain to have to do 5 mins of Maths before I can decide what/when to cook. After I won, so many women from South Asian backgrounds reached out to express their joy that I had shared our culinary heritage. I have always been drawn to hospital environments because you work alongside the best kind of people who become more than colleagues. Gut-friendly breakfasts, immune-boosting lunches, quick family suppers and a host of simple, mostly plant-based dishes make up this colourful collection of recipes.