The Kitchen Prescription: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: 101 delicious everyday recipes to revolutionise your gut health

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In The Kitchen Prescription, Saliha draws on her love of good food and her expertise in gut health to create 101 recipes that are easy to make, incredibly delicious to eat and will effortlessly keep your gut and digestion in tip-top condition. Transform your gut health one delicious satisfying bite a time with Masterchef winner, Observer Food Monthly award winner and gastroenterologist, Saliha Mahmood Ahmed. France, for a contrasting example, didn’t reach the same percentage of urban population until the 1960s. Read about how we’ll protect and use your data in our Privacy Notice.

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While she thinks it would be misleading to say she never eats a red velvet cake or a burger and chips, they would only ever be an occasional treat. Dieting is forbidden and it is easy for me to concentrate on looking after my gut bugs as in incentive. It is incredibly humbling and empowering to be the first doctor to win MasterChef because there are food related ailments that I can relate to in a way that not many other people can. The consequences in the US are already dire; 70 per cent of the population is overweight or obese, and 40 per cent have metabolic syndrome, which means they suffer from obesity, bad cholesterol or elevated blood sugar. We live in a country well-suited to producing fresh food: rich pastures for our animals, fertile soils for our crops.The results of a study published this week suggest that eating too many fried snacks could make you depressed. The more we can do that, and the less we have sweet, sugary beverages and ultra-processed foods, the better it is for our long-term health. We know that because of the stigma associated with obesity, gaining weight is a risk factor for feeling sad,” says van Tulleken. In The Kitchen Prescription, gastroenterologist Dr Saliha Mahmood Ahmed draws on her love of good food and her expertise in gut health to create 101 recipes that are easy to make, incredibly delicious to eat and will effortlessly keep your gut and digestion in tip-top condition.

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The study, says van Tulleken, highlights the role of acrylamide, a molecule produced by deep frying, which is linked to brain inflammation. What started in the 1950s with the allure of the American fridge, the drive-thru and the baked Alaska, now threatens to destroy the fabric of our society. I'm the sort of person who needs to know when I need to start prepping and cooking and so it's a pain to have to do 5 mins of Maths before I can decide what/when to cook. The UK’s situation has been further exacerbated by our special relationship with America, both glorifying its consumer culture and its free market, which has allowed companies to make money at the expense of our health. To celebrate the publication of The Kitchen Prescription, we are gifting someone a virtual fridge exploration with Saliha, and a goody hamper full of gut health-friendly items.I am working as a specialist registrar in hepatology and gastroenterology, so essentially the liver, the digestive system and the bowels are my specialty. Dr Saliha Mahmood Ahmed is a Gastroenterology Doctor, winner of MasterChef 2017 and author of Foodology and Khazana, which won the Observer Food Monthly Best Cookbook of the Year 2019. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

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You’re getting an insulin spike and you’re not getting the beautiful phytonutrients that you get in food: the vitamins, the minerals and the polyphenolic compounds. The irony, says Mahmood-Ahmed, is that doctors are still not trained to talk to patients about good eating patterns or to give dietary advice. Her work in the kitchen, in the hospital, in NHS canteens and in the wider community is to be hugely admired! I have read many health cookbooks and many of them are off putting or preachy or require you to accept a dietary principle that you don’t believe in. They’re made for processing plants and natural foods,” she says of the mismatch between our biology and SAD foods.

My latest book, The Kitchen Prescription, is due to be published Thursday 30 March and features 101 recipes that we can eat to optimise our gut health and it explores the broad ranging implications of better gut health. If you’re attempting to make a change in your own eating patterns, Mahmood-Ahmed cautions taking up a restrictive diet, in favour of eating a lot of whole foods. The first takes us back to the Industrial Revolution and the severing of Britons from our food culture. They’re ultra-processed foods, a set of edible substances that are addictive for many and which are now linked to weight gain, early death and, yes – depression.