Happy Food for Life: Health, food & happiness

(Hardback)

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Discover how eating well affects mental and physical health: vegan, veggie or carnivore, this book is for you! Based on ground-breaking new research, Happy Food For Life extends the conversation around gut health and its effect on our mental and physical health, ensuring every reader is equipped to make the best choices for our all-round health and the planet too. From mindful eating to how to get children to eat (almost) anything, and with an in-depth look at the increasingly popular Nordic diet, this book is packed full of simple, healthy recipes and great everyday advice. The quick, mouth-watering and wholesome recipes include: creamy salsify tagliatelle with mushrooms roast chicken soup with crudites buckwheat risotto with fennel and pea sprout salad whole roast sweet potato with mint, coriander, chilli and cashew nuts blood orange and Brussels sprout salad whole grilled sea bass with green vegetables and many more helping you put the science into practice!

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Happy Food For Life is the perfect balance of approachable scientific analysis ... blended with Ekstedt's carefully curated, very approachable recipes... These are refreshing, varied, plant-heavy recipes that help all of us eat better, nurture our guts and boost our immune system. New year's resolutions or not, surely that's more important than ever. -- Cass Farrar * GQ *
The Scandi trend has transformed our furniture, crime dramas and the food we eat, and now Happy Food is poised to change our digestive and mental health. * Good Housekeeping *
Even those who dont trust easy fixes will be impressed * Irish Examiner *
Based on the idea of enhancing and protecting good mood by fostering gut health, it presents both scientific research and achievable everyday ways to slot the advice into your own lifestyle... Recipes such as roast chicken with spelt and tomato will nourish the soul as well as the body. * Waitrose Food *

Author Bio

NIKLAS EKSTEDT is one of Swedens most treasured chefs and restaurateurs, having started several Michelin-starred restaurants. He is also well known for his cooking show Niklas Mat, which ran for over ten seasons in Sweden and is a regular on UK tv, often appearing on Saturday Kitchen and MasterChef, as well as his role as a food hero on Crazy Delicious. HENRIK ENNART IS a medical science journalist for one of Swedens largest newspapers Svenska Dagbladet. In spring 2017 he wrote an article about how people can find happiness through food, which became one of the most read articles to appear in the newspaper that year.