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Author Spotlight: Gillian McKeith

March 25, 2008 by Romy

Scottish nutritionist and health guru Gillian McKeith has been a household name across the pond for several years now, hosting several popular British television programs and penning bestselling guidebooks and recipe collections.

Inspired by her father’s passing due to lung cancer, McKeith made a vow to dedicate her life to the crusade for anti-smoking and health awareness that led her to meet her husband, the owner of a successful health food store chain in the United States. While in the USA, McKeith appeared regularly as a health correspondent on television, including a stint on the Joan Rivers talk show. Her family now resides in the UK where McKeith runs a successful online business promoting her popular diet programme and food products.

McKeith’s programme takes a holistic approach to nutrition and ill health, promoting exercise, a pescetarian vegetarian diet high in organic fruits and vegetables, and suggesting the avoidance of processed and high-calorie foods. She recommends detox diets, colonic irrigation and supplements, also making statements that yeast is harmful and that the color of food is nutritionally significant, which has led her methods to be questioned by many health professionals.

Her bestselling book, You are What You Eat, has sold well over one million copies since it was first published in 2005.

You Are What You Eat
By Gillian McKeith