As part of the resources we like to offer, these are suggestions to teach, support and help you with well-being and mental health. Elizabeth Peyton-Jones is a master herbalist and naturopath with 25 years of experience in natural remedies and consultations.

What Every Model Needs To Know About Food

by Lillian Van der Veen

If you've been thinking about becoming a model for a while, or if you've already been working in the modeling industry, you might have done some research about what models eat.

This is what what we're going to cover in this book:

• We’ll tackle the confusion, and get to the bottom of what healthy eating actually is

• You’ll learn WHY healthy eating is so important for models (and no, it’s not just about your measurements)

• You’ll get my super simple formula for putting together delicious, healthy meals yourself

• You’ll get all my very best advice on how to manage your measurements (based on my own years of experience)

• You’ll get the inside scoop on how to be prepared for all of the different types of days in the life of a model (think castings, photoshoots, fashion week, travel days etc.)

• We’ll also talk through how to improve your body image as a model and how to set boundaries that will help you get the most out of your career

• Oh and did I mention that at the back of the book you’ll find some of my favourite healthy recipes?

Cook Yourself Young: Harnessing the Power of Food

by Elizabeth Peyton-Jones

This is a book to help you cook and eat more youthfully. It’s a kind of DIY youthing manual, full of practical and easy ways to rejuvenate your brain, body and immune system as well as any other bits you think might need some attention... The source of youthing power lies in your kitchen!

This book is called Cook Yourself Young: Harnessing the Power of Food because it seemed genuinely important to me to reacquaint people with that fundamental food-body-power connection. If you want to feel fresh, awake, vibrant, youthful, inspired and ready for new adventures, then look at what you eat. If you want to have clear, glowing skin, sparkling eyes, a lean physique, glossy hair, nails and a body that works seamlessly well, as well as stave off colds, flus and other bacterial illnesses, then your diet is fundamental.

That’s the theory. Here’s the application. Within these pages Elizabeth will:

# Take healthy, youthing foods mainstream so they become your ‘new normal’
# Help you understand what your body does with food, so you can feed it better
# Give you hundreds of ideas, recipes and suggestions so you can start cooking and eating youthfully right here, right now (and ditch addictive foods while you’re at it)

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First Aid Kitchen Remedies

by Elizabeth Peyton-Jones

THE LOST ART of KITCHEN MEDICINE

The shops are shut; its 10pm at night and your three year old has fallen over and cut them self. You’re alone, you’ve run out of TCP and Germolene, you need to stop the bleeding, disinfect the wound, bring down bruising and generally calm a frightened child without the use of normal over-the counter medicines? What do you do? …

This book brings alive the foods, herbs and spices that you have in your larder and gives them a presence way beyond that of a garnish or flavouring. These herbs, spices and vegetables are your medicine and will always be there for you. To use the above scenario as examples; a wet tea bag can stop bleeding due to the tannin in tea that helps blood coagulate.

The beauty of a medicine larder is that if you don’t use the contents for medicinal purposes, you can always eat them as tasty food! But in the meantime in the back of your mind, you will know that an alternative is close at hand. Let your larder become a powerful tool kit and you and your family’s best friend.

If you want to go one step further and create a First Aid Kit for your home, with a range of very therapeutic herbs, not normally on your everyday shopping list, then take a look at the list at the back of this book.

Eat Yourself Young

by Elizabeth Peyton-Jones

Eat Yourself Young is a practical guide to help you look, feel and live younger. Forget Botox, fillers and face-lifts – the quickest and most effective way to take years off your looks is simply by changing what you eat. That may sound unbelievable, but it’s true. You can eat yourself younger, and what’s more it’s easier than you may think.

On the Eat Yourself Young (EYY) Programme, you’ll quickly lose weight and feel lighter, more energetic and less stressed. Your skin will improve, you’ll sleep better. Soon, people will notice you are glowing with vitality. But most importantly, you’ll start to look and feel younger – it’s a real high when you suddenly realise it’s not your age that’s making you feel old, it’s your food.

‘A truly good doctor always tries first to cure with food,’ said Chinese physician Sun Ssu-mo nearly 1,400 years ago. Food is medicine, our best-revitalizing tool, though somewhere along the way we’ve lost sight of that self-evident truth. On a typical day, we’re more likely to be powered by supermarket sandwiches, flapjacks and copious café lattes than anything healthy. We think our bodies can handle the nutritional deprivation, and for a while perhaps they can. But as we enter our 30s and beyond, our looks take a battering – skin, hair and nails lose their gloss, energy levels flag and we start to look and feel worn out.

This is not a natural or inevitable part of ageing. None of us has a sell-by date imprinted in us like a stick of rock. Indeed, scientists today reject the idea that the body is programmed like a biological clock to decline in a certain way as we age. The typical symptoms of ageing are now considered to be around 25% genetic – with 75% from accumulated cell damage due to lifestyle and other factors. In other words, you age the way you do largely because of the foods you eat and the lifestyle choices you make.