UnDiet: Eat Your Way to Vibrant Health [Paperback]

As a holistic nutritionist I’m always on the lookout for new alternative health and wellness books and I have to admit I was incredibly excited for the release of Meghan Telpner’s Undiet: Eat Your Way to Vibrant Health.
This book is a game changer. It’s completely inspiring, totally authentic, the writing sings, and the research is solid. Most importantly, however, Meghan encourages her readers to take responsibility for their own state of health by reconnecting with the foods they put inside their bodies and listening to how those food choices make them feel. This book educates and empowers by demonstrating just how easy and attainable healthy living truly is if you take small steps every day towards your overall goals. Meghan’s plan goes far beyond diet and segues naturally into a connection of mind, body, and soul to create a picture of joyful living that anyone would want to manifest. Undiet is a necessity for anyone frustrated by conventional health and nutrition and looking to take action to create a better body and life. It will have a place of honour on my bookshelf and will be the book I recommend to clients when they ask me where to start on their journey. As she says, we can either build health or disease, and with this book as a guide you will joyfully choose to build health every day for the rest of your abundant and beautiful days.
Some specifics about the book I thoroughly enjoyed were:
1. The inclusion of a sort of "cheat sheet" at the end of every chapter that summed up the key ideas and actions that had been covered.
2. Each chapter ended with delicious recipes that corresponded once again to the topic of said chapter.
3. The photography is beautiful and includes many authentic day-to-day shots of Meghan and her friends and family living joyfully.
4. The writing is captivating, honest, hilarious, and informative without being preachy. You will tear through this book.
5. Meghan included practical tips for slowly but surely overhauling your pantry and by extension, your life.
If you do yourself one favour in 2013, it should be to buy this very important and incredibly inspiring book!

Well, I guess that a book with the word “diet” in the title sells by itself but, WARNING, the book is not about dieting. It’s about a building a better life for you and the people around you! Un-diet here is like un-learning: get rid of bad old habits and fill in with new challenging but rewarding ones. It’s meant to inspire, through wise words coming from experience and expertise, and guide you one step (or as many as you can handle) at a time to incorporate and re-learn new routines to build a better health from the inside out. And it’s not all about food, so don’t expect food recipes galore in the book. For that, internet is actually an amazing resource! However you’ll find recipes here, not just for yummy meals and snacks, but recipes to create an enhanced and happier you!

I’ve loved every piece of it: the topics Meghan covers, the suggestions, the way it’s written, the colours used… It truly transmits positive energy!

Want to feel healthier? Don't want to drink green juice, give up eating meat, or gulp expensive uber-processed "nutrition" drinks? No problem. Meghan gives great ideas of how you can make the healthy choices that are easiest for you and your family. She'll show you how to read a nutrition label (and tell you what information to ignore), how to quickly and cheaply make staples like almond milk at home, and which of the things in your kitchen cupboards you might want to try as cosmetics. I know I'll be coming back to my copy again and again in the next few years.