The cutting-edge science behind how our inner health reflects in our faces is a key driver for New Zealand book What the Face!
The fifth book in the internationally best-selling What the Fat? series, by authors Dr Caryn Zinn, Professor Grant Schofield and Craig Rodger, What the Face! is about how to look and feel good from the inside out.
It reveals how what we eat impacts on the health of our hair, skin and nails, and helps maintain a youthful appearance as we age.
Dr Zinn, a whole food dietitian and head of research at Auckland University of Technology’s School of Sport and Recreation, says the scientific field of skin-gut-brain health is still young.
“Once you throw in the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries, it’s actually quite hard to know who and what to believe,” she says.
Professor Schofield, widely known as ‘The Fat Professor’ and director of the Human Potential Centre at AUT Millennium, says in researching for the book he again found another whole field where conventional ‘wisdom’ does not match scientific reality.
“As soon as you realise that the condition of the body on the outside almost perfectly reflects its condition on the inside, then you connect the dots.”
All scientific research is referenced throughout the book.
Chef Craig Rodger, who worked in Michelin-starred restaurants in his native Scotland, says for What the Face! he has focused on a how-to approach and has created recipes he hopes readers will want to return to again and again.
The WTF trio has also taken the opportunity to revise and update the book that started it all – What the Fat? Fat’s In, Sugar’s Out. whatthefatbook.com
