I’ve just completed Amelia Freer’s best seller ‘Eat. Nourish. Glow.’ and I can honestly say there’s no wonder why it’s been flying off the shelves.
Healthy eating and wellbeing has been a general interest of mine for a few years now. For me it’s not so much about getting super slim and a thigh gap, but more for my own state of mind. I’m a great believer that a healthy body makes a healthy mind and as I’m getting older my diet is becoming increasingly more important to me.
I started reading Freer’s masterpiece when I was shown an article where Sam Smith recommended her. Sam seems to have had lost quite a bit of weight recently and he’s looking amazing… probably the best we’ve seen him since being in the public eye.
When I got home I grabbed my kindle and downloaded the sample (just to check that this book was really as brilliant as people had been raving). It was. I read the first few pages and when the sample finished I was thirsty for more. Her colloquial, yet matter-of-fact, style of writing was just what I’d been longing for.
While most health books are a myriad of healthy recipes (with ingredients we probably haven’t even heard of before) ‘Eat. Nourish. Glow’ offers so much more. I’m almost certain there is not one area of food that Amelia Freer did not cover. From fats to sugars, carbs to protein… I feel like my brain is swimming in facts.
One of the things I love is how the nutritionist kick starts each section with an inspiring/motivational quote from the food experts.
“You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces. Just good food from fresh ingredients.”
Julia Child, chef
“Don’t dig your grave with your own knife and fork.”
Old English proverb
“Indulge in life, not food.”
Dana James, Nutritional Therapist, New York
What’s more is that Freer has smartly structured her chapters under headings such as ‘The kitchen detox’, ‘Grace around food’, ‘Be consistent, not perfect’, ‘Why healthy food is happy food’ and many more appropriate titles that we all are craving to know the answers to.
I think the thing I love the most about the author is that she is a realist. She gets what it’s like to have bad habits (and perhaps not even realise it) and what it’s like to start from the bottom with a clean diet. She manages to balance empathy with a no-nonsense approach.
It might be the beginning of April, but that doesn’t mean it’s too late follow the ‘New year, new me’ cliché, and really make it mean something. There’s definitely a food revolution in terms of health brewing. When better to join?
Top words of wisdom from Amelia Freer’s ‘Eat. Nourish. Glow.’
“Food manufacturers have completely insulted our cooking confidence. They have come between us and the kitchen all under the guise of making our life easier… flattering our sense of busyness”
“You are what you eat. So don’t be fast, cheap, easy or fake.”
“…knowing it’s OK not be perfect is be of the most liberating things you can do for your body and mind”
“Our digestive system is the foundation of our health”
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