A Practical Guide to Whole Foods, Metabolic Health, Fasting, and Sustainable Nutrition
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What if the key to eating better isn't eating less-but understanding what your body actually needs?
For years, nutrition advice has been filled with confusing rules, restrictive diets, calorie counting, and promises of quick results. But what if you could step away from the diet noise and return to the fundamentals of food, metabolism, and sustainable habits?
Dr. Pradip Jamnadas, MD Diet is a practical guide for readers who want to develop a clearer understanding of healthy eating and make smarter choices without turning every meal into a complicated calculation.
Inside, you'll explore the principles behind whole-food nutrition, metabolic health, blood sugar, insulin, protein, healthy fats, refined carbohydrates, meal timing, mindful eating, and intermittent fasting. Rather than focusing on a short-term diet, this book takes a bigger-picture approach to building an eating pattern that can become part of everyday life.
You'll discover how to:
Most importantly, this book encourages you to stop thinking of nutrition as an all-or-nothing battle.
You don't need to eat perfectly. You need an approach you can realistically maintain.
A nutritious meal today is useful. A healthier habit repeated for months and years can be transformative.
Whether you're beginning your health journey, trying to improve your everyday eating habits, or simply looking for a more sensible way to understand nutrition, these pages provide practical principles you can take into your kitchen, grocery store, and daily routine.
Your next meal is an opportunity to make a better choice. Your next habit could change the way you eat for years to come.
Start with the food on your plate. Understand the principles behind it. Then build a healthier lifestyle-one sustainable choice at a time.
Michael Bennett (Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Whakaue) is an award-winning screenwriter, director and author. His first book, a non-fiction work telling the true story of New Zealand’s worst miscarriage of justice, In Dark Places, won Best Non-Fiction Book at the 2017 Ngaio Marsh Awards. Michael's second book, Helen and the Go-Go Ninjas, is a time-travel graphic novel co-authored with Ant Sang.
Better the Blood, the first Hana Westerman thriller, was shortlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction/Ockham New Zealand Book Award, as well as for the Audio Book of the Year at the Capital Crime Fingerprint Awards and Best First Mystery Novel at the Barry Awards. It was also longlisted for the CWA John Creasey New Blood Debut Dagger and was a finalist for Best Novel at the 2023 Ngaio Marsh Awards, where it won the award for Best First Novel. Return to Blood, the second novel in the acclaimed series, won the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel in 2025.
Michael's short and feature films have won awards internationally and have screened at numerous festivals, including Cannes, Toronto, Berlin, Locarno, New York, London and Melbourne. Michael is the 2020 recipient of the Te Aupounamu Māori Screen Excellence Award, in recognition of members of the Māori filmmaking community who have made high-level contributions to screen storytelling.
He lives in Auckland, Aotearoa (New Zealand), with his partner Jane, and children Tīhema, Māhina and Matariki.
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