Happy Food for Life Health, food & happiness
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Biographical note
Niklas Ekstedt is one of Sweden’s 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 Sweden’s 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.
<i>Happy Food For Life</i> 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 don’t 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
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!
Introduction
Part 1: You’re as healthy as your planet
Chapter 1: Bottoms up
Chapter 2: Presenting your gut flora
Chapter 3: One with nature
Chapter 4: Dizzying new research
Chapter 5: What most affects your gut flora
Chapter 6: Emotional eating
Chapter 7: Food and well-being
Part 2: Meals that cheer
Chapter 8: Set for success
Chapter 9: How do you really eat?
Chapter 10: Flavours for both big and small
Chapter 11: Emotional upsets
Chapter 12: We’re all different
Chapter 13: A Nordic breeze is blowing
Chapter 14: Back to your roots
Epilogue
Recipes
Index
Bibliography
Product details
Biographical note
Niklas Ekstedt is one of Sweden’s 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 Sweden’s 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.