VICKI EDGSON has been a practising nutritional therapist for over 15 years, always working alongside medical doctors to create the bridge between allopathic medicine and complementary practices. She has written six books, including bestsellers Honestly Healthy and Honestly Healthy for Life (both published by Jacqui Small), and was one of the founders of The Food Doctor. As well as her busy nutritional therapy consultancy, she runs award-winning retreats both in the UK and abroad. She is a contributing columnist for Psychologies Magazine and regularly contributes to national and international newspapers and magazines. She has also co-presented two major television series '? Fat Nation for BBC1 and BBC3, and Diet Doctors for Channel 5. HEATHER THOMAS is a food writer and editor and the author of several best-selling cookery books, including The New Vegetarian Cookbook with the Vegetarian Society. Her latest book (published in January 2015 by Pavilion is Quick & Easy Low Calorie Cookbook , featuring 100, 200 and 300kcals recipes, which takes the guesswork and arithmetic out of calorie counting. She has also written books on nutrition, diet, pregnancy, health and fitness.

She has worked with many top chefs, slimming companies (Weight Watchers, Slimming World and Rosemary Conley Diet Clubs) and women's health organizations and charities, and has contributed to health and food magazines in the UK and the United States where she used to live. She now splits her time between London and Athens. Vicki Edgson has six books to her name, developed Food and has also appeared on television programmes including Fat Nation and The Diet Doctors.