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Food Isn’t Medicine

By: Dr Joshua Wolrich
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Summary

Brought to you by Penguin. 

Losing weight is not your life's purpose.

Do carbs make you fat? 

Could the keto diet cure mental health disorders? 

Are eggs as bad for you as smoking? 

No, no and absolutely not. It's all what Dr Joshua Wolrich defines as 'nutribollocks', and he is on a mission to set the record straight. 

As an NHS doctor with personal experience of how damaging diets can be, he believes every one of us deserves to have a happy, healthy relationship with food and with our bodies. His message is clear: we need to fight weight stigma, call out the lies of diet culture and give ourselves permission to eat all foods.

Food Isn't Medicine wades through nutritional science (both good and bad) to demystify the common diet myths that many of us believe without questioning. If you have ever wondered whether you should stop eating sugar, try fasting, juicing or 'alkaline water', or struggled through diet after diet (none of which seem to work), this book will be a powerful wake-up call. Drawing on the latest research and delivered with a dose of humour, it not only liberates us from the destructive belief that weight defines health but also explains how to spot the misinformation we are bombarded with every day. 

Dr Joshua Wolrich will empower you to escape the diet trap and call out the bad health advice for what it really is: complete nutribollocks. 

©2021 Dr Joshua Wolrich (P)2021 Penguin Audio

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Serial dieter no more!!!

This book is everything I needed to hear after 12+ years of trying every diet under the sun and constantly feeling guilt towards weight gain and personally responsible for my size. As a woman who has been clinically diagnosed with PCOS, weight and fertility issues are a constant concern for me now that I am wanting to start a family. This has led to drastic attempts at weight loss, often cutting out major food groups in an attempt to be a ‘healthy weight’ to become pregnant. I now feel so differently after listening to this book and will now try and repair my relationship with food to prepare me for motherhood. I want my children to feel positive towards food, not with w mother who is constantly ‘dieting’. Thanks, Joshua!

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Changed my life

Not only did this book make me laugh, I found it so reassuring. I have been an avid follower of ‘nutri bollocks’ for years and if I’m honest, it gave me health anxiety and a pre occupation with my weight. I now feel so much more relaxed about myself and I trust my body more (and the midi al profession). I’m a hypnotherapist and I will be recommending this book to all my clients who want weight loss. First they myst read this.

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very interesting and great advocate for HAES

loved it, great narration, definitely recommend to all my friends and family and a great advocate for Health At Every Size. we need more Dr Wolrichs in the medical profession

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Required reading/ listening

I don’t know anyone who doesn’t have some kind of disordered eating. Dr Wolrich smashes our food myths without making you feel guilty or stupid. This book really does give you freedom from those disordered ideas with grace and humour.

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This book is the dogs (nutri)bollocks!

This book is excellent, but I real wish that it wasn't. I very much want there to be an amazing, sustainable diet which will help my shift loads of weight quickly, whilst still feeling full and satisfied and without having any cravings... Sadly, that's not going to happen and this book looks at all the reasons why. Plus, as you might have guessed from the title, it also goes into detail about why food and medicine and two very different things and the dangers of confusing the two.
Full of wisdom on restoring your relationship with food, and scientific fact on nutrition - this book should be taught in all medical schools. And everyone else would do well to read it too.

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Insightful

Really enjoyed this - debunked myths I didn’t even know I believed! Follow Joshua on Instagram so had an idea what to expect : was not disappointed.

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What a breath of fresh air in January!

January is tough: for months we're being told to indulge, but by Boxing day the merciless diet industry tells us to put the mince pie down, stop eating anything that isn't juiced or a milkshake disguised as a meal. Add this to the gym memberships and expensive exercise bikes to get bikini ready for summer, and we've got ourselves a whole bunch of guilt and nutrib*llocks! This book is full of actual - wait for it - FACTS. Read it; it will do you more good than a new fitness app or cleansing juice.

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Great new view on things

I really enjoyed his fresh new take on eating healthy and to avoid fads and guilt. The required change in mindset after 3 decades of doing it one way will take some work though. Especially with him finishing the book by saying sort your relationship out with food before looking at weight loss, as it is a very unappealing process of delay to a very long held desired outcome, not matter how necessary. Also not knowing how long it will take and IF I'll get there requires a lot of faith... but then I suppose all diets/new ways of doing things require that. fingers crossed

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Clear, Consise, and just what we need

This is a brilliant book. Clear, concise, and packed full of backed up science. Dr Wolrich is a great narrator and has written a book that I want all my friends to read.

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Fantastic real talk

Great clear and simple way to describe how we can be manipuleted in our most burnable situations. Food is not medicine great eye opener.

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