Keep Weight Off Forever, the Healthy, Simple Way

How to Lose Weight Well (Updated Edition)

In this updated edition of How to Lose Weight Well, which accompanies the hit Channel 4 show, Dr Xand van Tulleken offers a preface to this new edition of the book, including details about diets featured on the latest shows, a section on veganism, an expanded chapter on exercise, and 5 new vegan recipes. 
 
 Dr Xand, who slimmed down from 19 stone, champions a foolproof weight-loss method. He presents a simple 4-step plan for a healthy diet, backed by fact. No gimmicks, no expensive supplements, no hassle &ndash; just practical advice and 70 easy recipes for every day of the week.For most people, diets fail when cravings and temptation get the better of them, but this diet addresses these common traps so that anyone can keep the weight off for the rest of their lives. Recipes include filling meat, fish and vegetable mains (including newly designated vegan recipes), breakfasts and even puddings. Additionally, a series of menu plans provides all the help readers might need to fit the recipes into their busy days.

Xand van Tulleken is a qualified doctor. He trained in medicine at Oxford and spent a decade working in the NHS before doing a Master&#39;s Degree in Public Health at Harvard University. He is well known for presenting popular TV programmes with his identical twin brother Dr Chris van Tulleken. He has presented numerous shows for the BBC and Channel 4 including the BAFTA-winning Operation Ouch, The Twinstitute, Planet Child, Horizon, Secret Life of Twins, Medicine Men Gone Wild and How to Lose Weight Well. He has also contributed medical analysis on CNN, BBC1 and 2, and Al Jazeera among others. As a junior doctor he worked in a variety of conflicts and disasters and this inspired a passion for the politics and medicine of conflict zones. He continues to teach and write about this subject and is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Humanitarian Medicine. He lives and works in London.

Operation Ouch!: The HuManual

Dan Green is the original concept creator, author and illustrator of the Busy Day series. Dan has over 25 years' experience illustrating and designing a wide variety of children's books for a range of clients and publishers.

Take a tour of one of the most complex, diverse and downright unusual places on the entire planet - the human body! Find out all about what makes YOU tick, from the wonders of the human brain to the tingling in your ticklish toes. From crazy bodily functions to bizarre real-life medical cases, this is the ultimate guide to getting to know yourself, inside and out! 
 
Operation Ouch! is a BAFTA-winning CBBC series, from the makers of Embarrassing Bodies and 10 Years Younger. It's presented by real-life doctors (and twin brothers) Chris and Xand van Tulleken.

Keep Weight off Forever, the Healthy, Simple Way

How to Lose Weight Well

Are you ready to lose weight well?Written by Dr Xand van Tulleken, who slimmed down from 19 stone, How to Lose Weight Well accompanies the hit Channel 4 show and champions a foolproof weightloss method. He presents a simple 4-step plan for a healthy diet, backed by science. No gimmicks, no expensive supplements, no hassle &ndash; just practical advice and 70 easy recipes for every day of the week.For most people, diets fail when cravings and temptation get the better of them, but this diet addresses these common traps so that anyone can keep the weight off for the rest of their lives. Recipes include filling meat, fish and vegetable mains, breakfasts and even puddings. Additionally, a series of menu plans provides all the help readers might need to fit the recipes into their busy days.

Dr Xand van Tulleken is well known for presenting popular TV programmes with his identical twin brother Dr Chris van Tulleken. He has presented numerous shows for the BBC and Channel 4 including the BAFTA-winning Operation Ouch, Blow Your Mind, Horizon, Secret Life of Twins and Medicine Men Gone Wild. He has also contributed medical analysis on CNN, BBC1 and 2, and Al Jazeera among others. As a junior doctor he worked in the genocide in Darfur and this inspired a passion for the politics and medicine of conflict zones which led to his academic appointment in the US. He now divides his time between New York and London.

Xand van Tulleken

This book is actually useful. Timely and thorough, it tells us what’s what.

A much-needed an injection of hard science into the booming global wellness industry. With the deep erudition of an actual doctor, the urgent prose of a proper public intellectual, and the story-telling nous of one of our greatest communicators, Xand van Tulleken's MAKE ME WELL has demolished several shoddy shibboleths and pointed the way to a better, happier, healthier life. I cannot think of a more valuable public service. And frankly I will never look at a vitamin supplement, longevity 'hack', or collagen dose the same way again.

If anyone can drag the wellness industry into the light and make you laugh while doing it, it’s Xand van Tulleken. Beautifully researched, clear-eyed and very funny — essential reading for anyone who’s ever scrolled past a wellness miracle wondering whether any of it actually works. A generous guide to an industry that depends on us not asking too many questions.

Make Me Well made me laugh, made me angry -- and ultimately made me feel better informed about my health. A deeply researched tour of a multibillion dollar industry that's more nutritious than any supplement you've ever seen advertised on a podcast. And he's made it funny, too. Put down your multivitamins and read this at once.

[A] revelatory and eminently accessible book.

A Quest to Understand the Confusing World of Wellness

There has never been a more confusing time to try to be healthy. In the past decade, the healthcare sector has witnessed a remarkable surge in innovation: drug design, genomics and diagnostic technology have all changed almost beyond recognition. 
 
Simultaneously, there has been a significant expansion in consumer health services, including the supplement industry, blood testing, consumer genomics and wearable technology, which claim to improve “wellness” (emphasising physical and mental performance and longevity) rather than curing or preventing specific disease states. 
 
For a typical consumer this is both confusing, as the health and wellness industries are almost indistinguishable, and expensive, as consumer health emphasises personalised products, often sold on a subscription basis. 
 
In Make Me Well, Xand van Tulleken investigates the new Wild West of the wellness industry, demystifying a landscape dominated by three products: supplements, blood testing, and wearable technology. In doing so, he shines a light on how people can take care of themselves better in this new and overwhelming world of wellness.

Xand van Tulleken

Praise for Make Me Well

This book is actually useful. Timely and thorough, it tells us what’s what.

A much-needed an injection of hard science into the booming global wellness industry. With the deep erudition of an actual doctor, the urgent prose of a proper public intellectual, and the story-telling nous ...

If anyone can drag the wellness industry into the light and make you laugh while doing it, it’s Xand van Tulleken. Beautifully researched, clear-eyed and very funny — essential reading for anyone who’s ...

This book is actually useful. Timely and thorough, it tells us what’s what.

A much-needed an injection of hard science into the booming global wellness industry. With the deep erudition of an actual doctor, the urgent prose of a proper public intellectual, and the story-telling nous ...

If anyone can drag the wellness industry into the light and make you laugh while doing it, it’s Xand van Tulleken. Beautifully researched, clear-eyed and very funny — essential reading for anyone who’s ...

This book is actually useful. Timely and thorough, it tells us what’s what.

A much-needed an injection of hard science into the booming global wellness industry. With the deep erudition of an actual doctor, the urgent prose of a proper public intellectual, and the story-telling nous ...

If anyone can drag the wellness industry into the light and make you laugh while doing it, it’s Xand van Tulleken. Beautifully researched, clear-eyed and very funny — essential reading for anyone who’s ...

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