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No-Nonsense Nutrition: THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. The Science-based Plan to Transform Health, Lose Weight, Feel Amazing
Love real food, look and feel amazing, with this life-changing guide. Over 100 healthy recipes to stay fuller, longer.
Food is one the most powerful tools we have for good health. Acclaimed clinical nutritionist Dominique Ludwig has helped thousands of people transform their health, reset their appetite, boost energy and mood, and lose weight with her science-proven method.
Her six evidence-based principles will revolutionise your approach to food and introduce you to eating that fuels your body and promotes longevity and happiness, without ever missing out.
By re-learning how to eat, what to eat and when to eat, we can unlock our body’s natural wellness and stimulate the release of GLP1 reducing food noise, curbing cravings and feeling ready to enjoy life at our best. No fads, just delicious food. All of the enjoyment, none of the nonsense.
The simple balanced recipes have been developed following Dominique’s pioneering combining fibre, protein, plants and healthy fats to satisfy and energise.
With a real-life track record, Dominique’s no-nonsense
· Boosts your body's natural GLP-1, the hormone that signals fullness
· Silences food noise and ends the cycle of constant hunger
· Promotes natural weight loss learning to eat balanced plates and stop grazing
· Increases energy and aids good sleep, improving your mood in less than two weeks
· Reduces inflammation and promotes healthy gut microbiome
· Promotes longevity, helping us to be healthier into old age
· Includes macro counts, two week meal plan and meal prep advice
This stunning guide makes healthy eating easy to understand and even easier to follow. It is your definitive guide to a healthier, happier you.
Food is one the most powerful tools we have for good health. Acclaimed clinical nutritionist Dominique Ludwig has helped thousands of people transform their health, reset their appetite, boost energy and mood, and lose weight with her science-proven method.
Her six evidence-based principles will revolutionise your approach to food and introduce you to eating that fuels your body and promotes longevity and happiness, without ever missing out.
By re-learning how to eat, what to eat and when to eat, we can unlock our body’s natural wellness and stimulate the release of GLP1 reducing food noise, curbing cravings and feeling ready to enjoy life at our best. No fads, just delicious food. All of the enjoyment, none of the nonsense.
The simple balanced recipes have been developed following Dominique’s pioneering combining fibre, protein, plants and healthy fats to satisfy and energise.
With a real-life track record, Dominique’s no-nonsense
· Boosts your body's natural GLP-1, the hormone that signals fullness
· Silences food noise and ends the cycle of constant hunger
· Promotes natural weight loss learning to eat balanced plates and stop grazing
· Increases energy and aids good sleep, improving your mood in less than two weeks
· Reduces inflammation and promotes healthy gut microbiome
· Promotes longevity, helping us to be healthier into old age
· Includes macro counts, two week meal plan and meal prep advice
This stunning guide makes healthy eating easy to understand and even easier to follow. It is your definitive guide to a healthier, happier you.
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527 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 26, 2026
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March 25, 2026
This book is aimed at people who are keen to measure their fibre intake and spend £50 per month on mixed seeds.
Ludwig's advice is very much in the same vein as the Zoe crowd (Tim Spector) and The Doctor's Kitchen (Rupy Aujla). If you're already aware of the 30-plants-per-week-rule and you've seen a high fibre seed 'bread' recipe, then there isn't much new here. If you've actually made and enjoyed said high fibre seed 'bread' recipe then this book might have a handful of new recipes for you.
The book is made up of two halves: the first half explains nutrition science and Ludwig's 6 principles for a nutritious diet; the second half is recipes.
Ludwig describes her approach to nutrition as 'back to basics'. Her 6 principles explain familiar ideas like eating a balanced diet, gaps between meals and how to choose good protein, carb and fat sources. If you're new to the world of nutrition, it's a good and thorough overview of all you need to know.
However, the book promises food freedom, but instead simply promotes a new way to measure your nutritional intake. The first section states, "I want to steer you gently away from calorie counting, and other forms of control over food, towards a more liberating and positive approach to eating." Yet one of Ludwig's main points is her Triple 30 nutritional guidelines: 30g protein per meal, 30g fibre per day and 30+ plant varieties per week. The message is: don't count calories - count these three nutrition stats instead!
This incongruent message of liberated eating while still meticulously measuring continues throughout the whole book. In the section titled, "How to count your plant points," she outlines specific, practical rules for counting how many plants you eat. Yet at the end of the section she says, "I don’t actually recommend you count the points in all your meals though, as it is unnecessary if you are eating a balanced diet." So which is it? Do we follow the rules for counting plants, or not? Do we follow her Triple 30 guidelines, or not? How do we know our diet is balanced without measuring it? I suspect Ludwig, as an expert who can easily recognise the nutritional value of different foods, underestimates the effort it takes the average person to figure out how balanced their diet is.
The recipes themselves are wholefood meals that prioritise plants. Each recipe lists the protein, fibre and plant points per serving, in keeping with Ludwig's Triple 30 guidelines.
In my opinion, most of the recipes are inaccessible and unhelpful to the average person wanting to improve their nutrition. The recipes regularly use expensive or hard to find ingredients, like psyllium husk flakes, and Ludwig suggests some healthy swaps, like swap rice for peas or swap mashed potato for mashed white beans, that most of the population would simply laugh at. Ludwig states earlier in the book that 57% of an average UK adult's calories come from ultra-processed foods, so presenting them with a recipe for bread that contains 550g of nuts and seeds as well as psyllium husk seems optimistic, or perhaps simply pointless.
If you are already on the whole plant foods nutrition train and you are looking for guidelines and recipes to maximise your health, this book might be informative for you. But if you currently eat shop-bought white bread, this book is not for you.
Ludwig's advice is very much in the same vein as the Zoe crowd (Tim Spector) and The Doctor's Kitchen (Rupy Aujla). If you're already aware of the 30-plants-per-week-rule and you've seen a high fibre seed 'bread' recipe, then there isn't much new here. If you've actually made and enjoyed said high fibre seed 'bread' recipe then this book might have a handful of new recipes for you.
The book is made up of two halves: the first half explains nutrition science and Ludwig's 6 principles for a nutritious diet; the second half is recipes.
Ludwig describes her approach to nutrition as 'back to basics'. Her 6 principles explain familiar ideas like eating a balanced diet, gaps between meals and how to choose good protein, carb and fat sources. If you're new to the world of nutrition, it's a good and thorough overview of all you need to know.
However, the book promises food freedom, but instead simply promotes a new way to measure your nutritional intake. The first section states, "I want to steer you gently away from calorie counting, and other forms of control over food, towards a more liberating and positive approach to eating." Yet one of Ludwig's main points is her Triple 30 nutritional guidelines: 30g protein per meal, 30g fibre per day and 30+ plant varieties per week. The message is: don't count calories - count these three nutrition stats instead!
This incongruent message of liberated eating while still meticulously measuring continues throughout the whole book. In the section titled, "How to count your plant points," she outlines specific, practical rules for counting how many plants you eat. Yet at the end of the section she says, "I don’t actually recommend you count the points in all your meals though, as it is unnecessary if you are eating a balanced diet." So which is it? Do we follow the rules for counting plants, or not? Do we follow her Triple 30 guidelines, or not? How do we know our diet is balanced without measuring it? I suspect Ludwig, as an expert who can easily recognise the nutritional value of different foods, underestimates the effort it takes the average person to figure out how balanced their diet is.
The recipes themselves are wholefood meals that prioritise plants. Each recipe lists the protein, fibre and plant points per serving, in keeping with Ludwig's Triple 30 guidelines.
In my opinion, most of the recipes are inaccessible and unhelpful to the average person wanting to improve their nutrition. The recipes regularly use expensive or hard to find ingredients, like psyllium husk flakes, and Ludwig suggests some healthy swaps, like swap rice for peas or swap mashed potato for mashed white beans, that most of the population would simply laugh at. Ludwig states earlier in the book that 57% of an average UK adult's calories come from ultra-processed foods, so presenting them with a recipe for bread that contains 550g of nuts and seeds as well as psyllium husk seems optimistic, or perhaps simply pointless.
If you are already on the whole plant foods nutrition train and you are looking for guidelines and recipes to maximise your health, this book might be informative for you. But if you currently eat shop-bought white bread, this book is not for you.
March 26, 2026
a fabulous book, a wealth of knowledge and inspiration
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