Clare Bailey - The Clever Gut Diet Cookbook: 150 Delicious Recipes to Help You Nourish Your Body from the Inside Out

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Title: The clever gut diet recipe book : delicious recipes to help you nourish your body from the inside out / Dr. Clare Bailey with nutritionist Joy Skipper. Description: First Atria Paperback edition. | New York, NY : Atria Paperback, 2018. | Originally published in Great Britain in 2017 by Short Books. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017052701 (print) | LCCN 2017053947 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Weight loss. | Reducing dietsRecipes. | DigestiveOrgansDiseasesDiet therapy. | BISAC: COOKING / Health & Healing /Weight Control. | HEALTH & FITNESS / Diets. | HEALTH & FITNESS / Weight Loss.

Classification: LCC RM222.2 (ebook) | LCC RM222.2 .B3424 2018 (print) | DDC641.5/63dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017052701 ISBN 978-1-5011-8976-0 ISBN 978-1-5011-8977-7 (ebook)

Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, claimed over 2,000 years ago that all diseases begin in the gut. Its taken a long time, but we are beginning to realize just how profound Hippocrates insight really was. Theres never been as much interest in the human gut and its tiny inhabitants, the trillions of microbes that make up the microbiome, as there is now. New research tools have enabled scientists to probe the previously secret world of the gut, and uncover more and more about the impact that the 1,000 different species that live down there have on you, and you have on them. Thanks to advances in DNA technology, we have learned more surprising things about the gut in the last few years than in all of previous human history.

Its been a bit like Galileo inventing the telescope and using it to discover a whole new universe, one that is larger and more complex than anything that earlier generations could ever have imagined. These new discoveries about the gut are not just of academic interest. It is becoming ever clearer just how important the microbiome is for keeping the rest of our body, and brain, in good shape. We have recently learned, for example, that the mix of microbes in our gut can strongly influence our weight, our mood, and even our immune system. The tragedy is that a modern diet, which relies heavily on processed food, along with the widespread overuse of antibiotics, has laid waste to the modern microbiome. This helps explain some of the dramatic increases weve seen over the last few decades in obesity, type 2 diabetes, allergic diseases, and food intolerances.

Whats the link? Well, an addiction to junk food and the indiscriminate use of antibiotics have helped devastate our Old Friends. These are the microbes that live in our guts and which evolved with us. They are essential to our health. Devastating these Old Friends has in turn made space for unhealthy microbes to flourish, those that encourage inflammation, weight gain, and, possibly, depression. The good news is that its never too late to do something to help those Old Friends recover. Adding new foods to your diet, doing a bit more exercise, and simply getting outdoors more can all have a positive impact on your gut health.

This book is only possible because of the extraordinary work done by scientists from many different countries who have generously shared their time and research. But it is also a labor of love by its main author, Dr. Clare Bailey. I have known Clare for over 35 years. We met on our first day of medical school and married soon after graduating. As well as being a dedicated doctor, Clare has always been passionate and adventurous about food.

When she was working with the Save the Children Fund in a remote part of the Amazon jungle, she was fascinated as much by her medical work there as by the unusual foods they were eating. This included, on one occasion, a giant toad, as large as a chicken, which they shared between four people. Apparently it was delicious. These days Clare is a busy GP who, among other things, uses her love of food and interest in nutrition to help her patients improve their blood sugar levels and reverse their type 2 diabetes by losing weight, rather than relying on medication. This led to her writing the bestselling 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet Cookbook . Building on what she has learned, she is now using food to improve her patients gut health as well as their gut size.

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