(Chef) Bridget Davis - Eat Your Way Slim and Healthy

I am reminded daily that health is wealth, so I feel like the richest person on earth. I want to help you feel this good BRIDGET DAVIS

When I switched to sugar-free, gluten-free, dairy-free eating, my transformation was radical. I was in my forties, a wife and mother, and I lost 25 kgs in just over 4 months with zero exercise and fell in love with life again.

As a chef with over twenty years experience, creating healthy recipes packed with deliciousness and flavour is my priority. I swap out all processed foods, dairy, sugar and gluten for fresh, healthier ingredients to create delicious recipes for every meal of the day.

Say goodbye to brain fog, bloating, mood swings, tiredness and unhealthy weight. Join me on my journey and live your healthiest life, starting today.

Love, Bridget

As a dietitian, I cannot recommend Bridget's recipes more highly not only designed to heal your gut, but to please your palate, wallet and waistline

LIZ KAELIN, MSC, REGISTERED DIETITIAN

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Liz Kaelin MSc, RD

Five years ago I started a business connecting local chefs, cafes and restaurants to the catering needs of customers. A mutual acquaintance introduced me to Bridget Davis, a professional chef who had spent most of her life in kitchens and had gained a reputation for being one of the best chefs in Australia. Bridget was a brand ambassador for Grove Avocado Oil and Lenovo (in addition to being an incredible chef, Bridget was also highly social media savvy), had given a TEDx talk at Macquarie University, and was regularly sought after by Google to cater their most prestigious and important events.

At the time, I was a practising dietitian who knew food and how it affects the body, but very little of the hospitality business and the mentality of chefs. From the moment I met Bridget, I was struck by her kindness, passion, enthusiasm, and infectious positive energy. She freely gave me her time and expertise, although she was a busy professional with several businesses and a mum of small children to boot. Through Bridgets patience and guidance, I shifted my knowledge from one of medical nutrition therapy to learning about the hospitality business, and slowly built a business that after five years was turning over $1 million in revenue before being sold in July 2017. Much of the credit is due to Bridgets contribution.

Fast forward six months later and as a fan of Bridgets Facebook page, I begin to see Bridget post healthy recipes. But not just any healthy recipes these dishes spanned the worlds cuisines and were packed full of fresh garden vegetables, aromatic herbs, exotic spices and lean meats. The recipes were incredibly inventive, yet dead simple so important for todays world when time is at a premium for all of us. The ingredients of the recipes were highly accessible (aside from a few speciality items) and required minimum prep time. As I observed Bridget pump out recipe after mouth-watering recipe: Korean-spiced beef with pickled cucumber, one-sheet-pan chicken and asparagus, Jamaican-jerk fish curry with roasted cauliflower rice (now Im getting hungry!) I noticed a trend. The recipes contained no gluten and no dairy which is becoming a more popular health trend but Bridget was also not adding any sugar or fat to her recipes. The result was pure, clean, delicious meals real food which was tasty, easy to prepare and really, really healthy.

Bridgets recipes are primarily focused on gut health. Simply put, our gut, or gastrointestinal tract, is an organ system within humans which takes in food and digests it to extract and absorb energy and nutrients. The incredible complexity of the gut and its importance to our overall health is a topic of increasing research in the medical community. Numerous studies in the past two decades have demonstrated links between gut health and the immune system, mood, mental health, autoimmune diseases, endocrine disorders, skin conditions and cancer.

The gastrointestinal tract contains some 4,000 different strains of flora (bacteria) which have diverse roles in maintenance of immune health and metabolism.

But back to Bridgets recipes. Her style of cooking and eating promotes gut health on various levels:

No added sugar: A diet high in added sugars can decrease the amount of good bacteria in your gut. This imbalance can cause increased sugar cravings, which can damage your gut still further. High amounts of refined sugars, particularly high-fructose corn syrup, have been linked to increased inflammation in the body, which in turn can be a precursor to a number of diseases and even cancers.