Jacqueline Whitehart is an expert health-food writer and best-selling cookery author.
With a practical and light-hearted approach, Jacquelines books are full of helpful tips and advice, and are packed with her own fresh, healthy and delicious recipes.
Jacqueline is a busy working mum from Yorkshire who writes from the heart and from personal experience. Shes not perfect, or a perfectionist; her down-to-earth approach to dieting and cooking speaks directly to her many readers, and shes always happy to answer any questions her readers may have.
Jacquelines recipes are easy to follow with simple, readily available ingredients.
Jacqueline writes regularly on her blog, www.52recipes.co.uk, and has a weekly free-recipe newsletter.
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Source ISBN: 9780008268916
Ebook Edition © August 2017 ISBN: 9780008268923
Version 2017-08-11
Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Part 1: Feel Better from the Inside
Introduction
Is the 28-Day Gut-Health Plan for You?
How Does the 28-Day Gut-Health Plan Work?
Whats Wrong with My Gut?
How to Improve Your Gut Health
Initial Gut Assessment Quiz
The 5 Big Triggers
Everybody Is Different
Food and Drink
Is Your Lifestyle Affecting Your Gut?
Part 2: The 28-Day Plan
Lets Do It!
Day-by-Day Guide
Gut-Health Diary
28-Day Review
Bonuses
Part 3: Recipes
Step Up Recipes
Rest and Restore Recipes
Introducing Milk
Introducing Red Meat
Introducing Nightshade
Adventure Recipes: Milk, Red Meat and Nightshade
Introducing Gassy Vegetables
Introducing Wheat and Gluten
Adventure Recipes: Food Combining
List of Searchable Terms
List of Recipes
About the Publisher
Part 1
INTRODUCTION
Do you get that Christmas dinner feeling every day of the week? Does your weight seem unaffected by what you eat and how often you exercise? Do you sometimes feel drained and bloated after a meal? Do you get bouts of spotty skin even though youre way past being a teenager? Does your stomach sometimes keep you awake at night?
Talking about our gut-health problems is a taboo subject for many of us. If youd been up most of the night with stomach pains, would you mention it to your friend over coffee the next day? Would you mention your loose bowels at the school gates? Of course not. We keep the pain and anxiety well hidden. And if the pain and symptoms just get worse year on year, do we complain? No, we just get on with it and learn to manage the symptoms.
If you want weight loss, a flat stomach and a healthy digestion then let me steer you in the right direction. I challenge you to follow the 28-Day Gut-Health Plan. In four weeks, youll lose weight up to 3kg (7lb) and it will all come off your tummy. Youll banish food cravings and restore the healthy bacteria in your gut. Youll take the first steps towards permanent weight loss, a healthier digestive system and a fitter old age.
Whats more, with over 80 delicious recipes tailored to the programme, youll find the plan to be both simple and tasty.
There are some really useful quizzes and trackers in the book and if youd like them in a printable and reusable format, they are all available (at no cost) via www.52recipes.co.uk/28G