FOOD AND HOW TO SURVIVE IT
Why Ultra-Processed Food is bad for us and what we can do about it.
Are the bathroom scales your companion or enemy? Why do so many of us struggle with our weight? Why do we, as a nation, fail to tackle our health crisis? In her new book FOOD AND HOW TO SURVIVE IT, Kathryn Bullock calls upon her personal experience of regaining her health, by eating differently, stabilising her weight, and changing her lifestyle.
After years of meticulous, in-depth research, Kathryn debunks some of the historic food science. She explains why food matters and what we can do about our global health crisis.
64% in England are overweight or obese* – in Scotland, the numbers are even higher at 66% and their latest health survey shows that nearly a third of people are obese (32% – the highest figure ever recorded).**
FOOD AND HOW TO SURVIVE IT available from Amazon. Paperback £9.99 or download on Kindle for £3.99.
‘a well-researched, comprehensive guide on the increasing global problem of obesity’ Allan Spencer, Biochemist and Author.
Discover:
Why fibre matters in our diet.
Why counting calories is not the best way to approach eating.
Why some types of food are more harmful and addictive than others.
Why plant diversity is important.
Why the glycaemic index of foods matters.
Why we can’t rely on the food industry to keep us healthy.
What other countries are doing about solving their obesity crises.
How community effort, AI, and technology can together help us to make the right food choices.
Whether you’re battling weight issues or supporting those who are, reading this book can prove to be a turning point in lifestyle and food choices for you and your community.
“…covered an amazing amount of ground, despite its relatively short length, the book is quite encyclopaedic… Despite my medical background, there was much in your book which was new to me and which I found of interest. After reading its chapters I thought more about what I was eating, particularly when tempted to snack on UPF!”
Dr John Platt MB FRCP, retired consultant physician.
About Kathryn Bullock
When COVID-19 created the silent skies above us, Kathryn knew that her life in the travel industry was going to come to a rather sudden halt. She was invited to help a group of colleagues to look at the issue of how people could be incentivised to lose weight and started to read about another type of pandemic — the one created by ultra-processed food (UPF) more commonly known as “junk food”. The more she read, the more despair she felt towards the NHS, and that the quality of our food is a global issue that concerns organisations such as the World Health Organisation and the United Nations. She became immersed in looking at trends and industries that influence our eating habits, and the frightening consequences of obesity in both adults and children. She decided that she needed to do something to help people make sense of why the global obesity pandemic is happening and to look at what we could do about it. Kathryn has written this book to share what she has learned.
Following a master’s degree from Warwick University, Kathryn pursued an international, entrepreneurial career in the travel, digital, and retail industries. More recently, she has focused her attention on the struggles people experience with food and weight. Food and How to Survive It is the culmination of a lifelong curiosity about people’s different attitudes to food and health around the world and intensive, independent research into the global obesity crisis.
Kathryn is a founder and Director of Earn Your Health Community Interest Company.
She is focused on fund-raising to assist communities to motivate each other to prepare healthy meals on a budget and to lead healthy lifestyles. She lives in London with her husband David, and divides her time between the capital and rural Lancashire.
Author: Kathryn Bullock
Five takeaways from the book to start the New Year on a healthy footing:
Eat more fibre
Stop snacking between meals
Read your food labels
Mix it up – eat a broad range of plants.
No starvation diets
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- Public Health England – Health Survey for England 2022. ** Scottish Health Survey 2023.
For more information, to request a review copy or interview with Kathryn contact
Teresa Quinlan, [email protected]