The Happiness Diet - by Rachel Kelly (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Improve your mental health and make yourself happier with this mood-boosting, life-changing, holistic nutritional plan that includes recipes, advice, and the science behind it from an internationally bestselling author and a nutritional therapist.

Eat better, feel better!

There's a reason that our stomachs are often referred to as our second brains: the gut is responsible for producing around 90 percent of a person's serotonin, the chemical responsible for making you feel good. Since suffering from her last serious bout of depression in 2011, bestselling author and mental health advocate Rachel Kelly has developed a broad holistic approach to staying healthy and happy, and the heart of her recovery process involves a crucial shift in diet.

Over the past five years, Kelly has worked with nutritionist Alice Mackintosh to identify the foods that either drag us down or lift us up. Together, they have built up a repertoire of over five-dozen recipes that target particular symptoms, from insomnia and mood swings to anxiety and exhaustion.

In this bright, warm, beautifully designed cookbook with chapters ranging from Steady Energy and Beating the Blues to Hormonal Peace and Finding Comfort, they put all the theories into practice, explaining how you can incorporate these changes seamlessly into your daily life. Along with fantastic recipes and daily meal planners, each chapter features informative introductions explaining the nutritional science behind their advice. The Happiness Diet also offers cheat sheets of essential foods to incorporate into your diet, with comforting thoughts and inspirational quotes. Follow the advice in these pages, and even if it's the only life change you make, you will begin to feel stronger and lighter with each passing week. Happy eating!

Review Quotes

"I absolutely LOVE this book. It's so gracefully accomplished and full of hope and practicality. Stretches out a hand to the lonely, the lost and the exhausted. It's a great gift of hard-won wisdom."-- "The Guardian"

"Kelly writes with charm and kindness about overcoming depression."-- "Evening Standard"

"Small, simple steps to a happier life."-- "Daily Mail"

"The new Chicken Soup for the Soul."-- "BBC Radio Leeds"

"With philosophical gems, comforting poetry and breathing techniques, this inspirational read will bring brightness to the darkest of days."-- "The Lady"

International praise:

"Beautifully and truthfully written."-- "Daily Telegraph"

Praise for Walking on Sunshine:

"Hard to argue with a woman who proposes poetry as a means toward calm, and therefore happiness. She quotes Yeats's 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree'...Try it. I took my blood pressure before and after. It dropped."-- "New York Times"

About the Author

Rachel Kelly is the bestselling author of The Happiness Diet, Walking on Sunshine: 52 Small Steps to Happiness, and Black Rainbow. She began her career as a journalist in London at The Times. She is now an official Ambassador for SANE and Vice President for the charity United Response. Rachel lives in West London.