It doesn’t matter who you are – absolutely everyone can benefit from giving their gut a little TLC,’ says Naomi Devlin, author of new book Food for a happy gut: recipes to calm, nourish & heal (Headline, £20).
Devlin was a foodie and always loved to cook, until, after being diagnosed with coeliac disease, her relationship with food suddenly changed. ‘It became a source of anxiety and often disappointment; restaurants were fraught with danger, and old favourites, like crusty bread, were off the menu,’ she says. But instead of feeling sorry for herself, Devlin did something positive. She set about learning about what goes on in the gut, and soon realised that what she ate, how she lived her life and her emotional state all had a huge influence on…
