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  • Published: 14 January 2025
  • ISBN: 9781787335233
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $59.99
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The Food For Life Cookbook

100+ Recipes Created with ZOE




The essential cookbook companion to gut-health expert Tim Spector's #1 bestselling Food For Life

** THE ONLY GUT-HEALTH COOKBOOK YOU NEED FROM THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FOOD FOR LIFE AND ITV LORRAINE’S GUT-HEALTH EXPERT **

In: 30 plants a week. Out: Calorie counting.
In: Fermenting. Out: Ultra-processed foods.
But, how?

The Food For Life Cookbook takes the ground-breaking guidance in Tim Spector's #1 bestselling guide to the new science of eating well and, in over 100 delicious and achievable recipes created in collaboration with ZOE, shows just how simple and enjoyable it can be to adapt to a gut-friendly way of eating.

Shaped by Tim's own experience of transforming the way he eats, as well as common requests from readers and ZOE members, chapters include 15-minute meals, ideas for eating well when the fridge looks bare, and generous feasts and sweet treats for special moments with friends.

Packed with inspiration for delicious meals to feed you, your family and your microbiome, as well as tips for increasing plant diversity and science-based explanations for the nutritional benefits of the ingredients and recipes included, The Food For Life Cookbook is a must-have for every gut-loving home and kitchen and the perfect gift for anyone who wants to embrace a new way of eating.

Go with your gut. Join the food revolution.

  • Published: 14 January 2025
  • ISBN: 9781787335233
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $59.99
Categories:

About the author

Tim Spector

Tim Spector is a professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London and honorary consultant physician at Guy's and St Thomas’ Hospitals. He is a multi-award-winning expert in personalised medicine and the gut microbiome, and the author of four books, including the bestselling The Diet Myth. He appears regularly on TV and radio around the world, and has written for the Guardian, BMJ, and many other publications. He is the lead researcher behind the world’s biggest citizen science health project, the COVID Symptom Study app. This free tool has been used by nearly 4 million people in the UK, US and Sweden to diagnose themselves without testing. It has confirmed new symptoms and risk factors for the virus, allowing scientists to monitor its progress and warn health authorities.

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Praise for The Food For Life Cookbook

Tim’s principles for eating well, now brought to your plate in these delicious recipes, are totally transformative

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, author of HOW TO EAT 30 PLANTS A WEEK

Phenomenal flavour, infused with science, and a delicious accompaniment to the original Food for Life book. A beautiful cookbook

Dr Rupy Aujla, founder of THE DOCTOR'S KITCHEN

Delicious and astonishingly, life-changingly, simple

Davina McCall

Seriously delicious recipes, packed with plant points, colours, flavours and recipes you’ll want to eat every day.

Melissa Hemsley, author of REALLY HEALTHY

Tasty, simple recipes packed with everything you’ll need for your body to be at its best

Steven Bartlett, host of THE DIARY OF A CEO

After years of telling us how simple it is to have a healthy diet, now Tim's showing us how, with a book full of fantastic recipes and ideas. In the nutrition revolution, Tim's definitely leading the way.

Yotam Ottolenghi

This cookbook is packed with food you will love – and that your microbes will, too! It’s full of enticing, colourful and accessible recipes that will enhance your gut microbiome, boost your health and mood, and so much more

Dr Clare Bailey Mosley

Exactly the kind of life-lengthening recipes that inspire me to cook more: delicious, simple and packed with exciting ideas for eating well

Dan Buettner, author of THE BLUE ZONES

Fabulous recipes for wellbeing with wise words for eating well

Liz Earle MBE, author of A BETTER SECOND HALF

Stuffed with super-healthy ideas for everyday eating... Plenty of quick, easy dishes in the "15-Minute Meals" and ‘Cupboard Raid’ sections... The Food for Life diet is also surprisingly inexpensive... Pick one of the Food for Life recipes once or twice a week and if you enjoy them, carry on. I plan to.

i Newspaper

Stuffed with gut health-boosting advice and blood-sugar-balancing dishes... There are loads of ideas for interesting, flavoursome things to do with vegetables and every dish looks delectable rather than boringly healthy

Get the Gloss

No fads, no nonsense, just practical, science-based advice on how to eat well

Daily Mail, Books of the Year, on FOOD FOR LIFE
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