The cutting-edge science behind how our inner health reflects in our faces is a key driver for the new 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 the health of our hair, skin, nails and helps maintain a youthful appearance as we age. The book picks up on the principles of low carb, healthy fat (LCHF) eating, championed in the first book of the series.
Dr Zinn, a whole-food dietitian, and head of research at AUT University’s school of sport and recreation said 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 explained.
“This book tells you what you can do to nurture a healthy skin, gut and brain and it also delves into what happens when things go wrong – and what you can do about it.”
Grant Schofield, widely known as The Fat Professor and director of the Human Potential Centre at AUT Millennium, said in researching for the book he again found another whole field where conventional ‘wisdom’ does not match scientific reality.
“One of my favourite parts of What the Face! is the balance between stress and recovery – the fact is that stress, which harms us a little bit, is what gives us resilience, or to be more accurate, anti-
fragility,” he said.
I never intended to co-author a book about looking good! But 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.
“There is an emerging body of scientific literature showing the younger that people are judged to look compared with their actual age, the longer and better they actually live. Japanese researchers also proposed that the perceived (biological) age might be a better predictor of health than chronological age.”
All scientific research is referenced throughout the book. Chef Craig Rodger, who worked in Michelin-starred restaurants in his native Scotland, stated that 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.
If you want to start fermenting and brewing kombucha, or to get prebiotic-rich foods into your diet at every turn, this book tells you how to do it.
Professor Mark Orams, interim dean of health and environmental sciences at AUT explained that there is too much attention has been placed on fixing health deficiencies and problems after they occur.
“What my colleagues Grant Schofield and Caryn Zinn, and their friend Craig Roger, focus on is how we can live a more fulfilling and awesome life,” he said.
“The decisions we make about what we eat and drink, our movement and resting habits, and our attitude, all influence whether we flourish or struggle. This book provides guidance on how we can
live to be our absolute best.”
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. The new version calls on the latest science to outline how to live the ultimate low-carb, healthy fat lifestyle and features all new recipe photography.
WTF will be available from March 15th.
