The best diet books for 2021 Katie Law
After an especially tough year, unhealthy weight gain has never been more of a problem. Rather than telling us to simply cut the calories or exclude certain food groups, the best of the new diet books address lifestyle issues from anxiety and overwork, to how to save money by batch cooking, to eating more mindfully, as well as cultivating good gut bacteria.
Burnout’s a B tch! by Rosie Millen (Mitchell Beazley, £20)
Who: In 2014 Millen, AKA Miss Nutritionist, developed Adrenal Fatigue and now specialises in helping others to recover from burnout through diet and lifestyle.
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by Frankie Bridge (Octopus £18.99, 256pp)
Pop star Frankie Bridge was at the height of her career with The Saturdays when she suffered a breakdown aged 23 and was hospitalised in 2012.
For years she tried to cover up her mood swings and panic attacks, ashamed of being paralysed by depression when to the outside world she appeared to have everything.
Her book is part-memoir, part-self-help manual, tracing the roots of her mental illness to her undiagnosed anxiety during childhood, but focusing on the positive steps anyone can take towards healing. This is no celebrity wallow in gloom Frankie’s coping mechanisms have worked well for her and she earnestly wants to share them.
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