What to Eat: Protein, Calories and Cutting Through the Noise

Work out what goes on the plate, and stop relitigating it every week.

A practical guide to everyday eating. Setting protein and calorie targets from your own numbers rather than a generic chart, building a small set of meals you are happy to repeat, shopping and cooking without it swallowing your week, and handling restaurants, drinking and the stretches where it all falls apart. Also runs the popular approaches - low carb, fasting, high protein - against what the evidence actually supports, and says plainly where it is still unsettled.

• Setting protein and calorie targets from your own numbers, not a generic chart
• A small set of repeatable meals, so eating well stops depending on willpower
• Eating out, drinking, holidays, and the weeks it all falls apart
• What the evidence supports across low carb, fasting and high protein