Our relationship with food is broken, but Dr Emma Beckett is here to help us repair it.

This is not a diet book, but it is a book about your diet, your life, and how food fits into it all.

Dr Emma Beckett has spent more than 15 years studying food and how it interacts with our bodies. In this fun, informative book, she takes her extensive research qualifications and experience and applies them to our everyday lives in her sassy and straightforward style. She shows us how and why food choices, eating and biology are not as simple as diet culture suggests. By embracing this complexity, we can empower ourselves to make changes that suit our unique lives and biology. Ditch the guilt that comes with trying to follow simple rules that don’t actually work, along with the pressure to be perfect.

Part manual, part memoir, part manifesto, You Are More Than What You Eat puts the person back at the heart of nutrition. Informed by a scientific evidence base, this is the perfect antidote to the misinformation surrounding the weight loss and diet industry. This book will teach you to embrace the complexity of your body and your life, reject the lure of simple slogans and heal your relationship with food.

‘An empowering and delightful demolition of diet culture. A guide to modern life.’ Dr Liz Allen, author of The Future of Us

‘Emma cuts through the nutritional overwhelm, the noise, the B.S and offers a fresh take on food and eating. She reminds us in her sassy, trademark style that there is no perfect food, eating plan, diet or set of rules and regimes. In fact our bodies are gloriously designed to self-regulate, adapt and evolve. She also makes EVERY-BODY, no matter of sex, income, age, body size, race, background etc feel seen and heard, a rarity in these types of books. She might have five academic degrees, but she perfectly translates nutritional science for the rest of us non-academics and empowers us to embrace imperfection, flexibility and – above all – enjoyment. I mean, have you ever tried avocado and chocolate? Neither had I until I took on Emma’s advice and, oh boy, it’s delicious.’ Felicity Harley, host of Healthy-ish

‘Emma’s passion for science communication and No BS nutrition straddles the space between educating and empowering, helping readers cut through the clutter of a notoriously noisy space. She brings to this book the same thing she brings to her interactions: empathy, evidence, common sense – all in a great frock, I’m sure!’ Alice Zaslavsky

‘Dr. Beckett, an exceptionally qualified nutrition researcher, challenges us to rethink everything we know about diet and health. Her empowering message helps us shed stress and guilt around food and embrace complexity, thus supporting – paradoxically – a simpler and more joyful approach to eating.’ Felice Jacka

‘Dr Emma Beckett’s debut novel You Are More Than What You Eat is a thorough fuck you to diet culture. It empowers readers to think critically, be kind to their bodies, and enables them to combat fatphobia.’ Dr Naomi Koh Belic

‘I have long admired Dr Emma Beckett for both her skills as a nutrition scientist and as a vibrant, eloquent communicator. She intimately knows the science, but also the real world where food is far more than the nutrients it contains. Her book is the much-needed antidote to diet culture, nutrition misinformation and body shaming. I highly recommend you stop following the latest diet trending on social media and take the time to read this book and rethink your approach. Healthy eating should be joyful eating, and Emma will help you bring a smile to your table.’ Dr Joanna McMillan