Glossy hardback. Red and green title on and photograph of fruits and nuts on both boards. Green spine.

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This bestselling title is the definitive A-Z guide to safe and healthy eating. Calling on the wisdom of more than 300 nutrition experts, the book shows how minor changes to your eating habits can lead to major changes in your quality of life. Look up an ailment and find out which foods help and which harm.

Review: I have now acquired this book and find it to be not only very interesting but of top quality and visually very pleasant. The book contains 396 pages of interesting information about nutrition, health and food in general. It debunks food myths and reveals ways of checking food claims for and against health. It has an index of over 3000 topics.

The book contains excellent photographs of food items that are conveniently placed to enable easy access to information. There is very helpful information on nutrition to guard against illness; common mistakes to avoid with food and the debunking of long-established myths about food and health. We have the latest research on nutrition and health; information on how to personalise diet to assist one’s personal health needs; diet related to age needs; over 150 foods and 100 ailments from A to Z – and much, much more.

Contributors include, amongst others:

Dr Alan Lakin, food specialist

Dr Ann Walker, nutritionist and medical herbalist

Jonathan Brostoff, world renowned expert on food allergies

Nutritionists from the British Nutrition Foundation

Michael Van Straten, author of Superfoods and British broadcaster on health

And many other contributions from medical, dietician and nutritionists