Great health made easy.
Award winning books to help you stay on track to become healthier, fitter, and more resilient. Good food and nutrition do make a big difference to how you feel and function.
I've retired from dietetics and am clearing my stock at a give-away price that essentially covers packaging and postage costs! I'd rather you benefit than the books be put in a recycling bin.
The Books
this=that: a life-size photo guide to food serves (seconds)
$29.75 AUD Price includes postage and handling within Australia only.
See how much to serve with life-size photos. A quick and easy way to see what and how much to serve for the best results and health.
This book solves your nutrition puzzles.
They say you can't judge a book by its cover and that is true of my remaining stock. The last of my 'seconds' have marks (slight scratches, dents, or production glitches such as smudges or over-glue) on the covers but the inside pages are perfect.
More than 400 life-size photos inside clearly show serve sizes for people aged 14 and upwards. Simply place your food on the photos to reveal any differences in serve size.
Everyday foods. Your choice. Your health.
ISBN 9780975158852
Size: 316 x 231 mm
Weight: close to 1.7 kg
this=that child size: a life-size photo guide to kids' food serves (seconds or better)
$29.75 AUD Price includes postage and handling within Australia only.
Curious about your child's nutrition? Actual real life-sized photos show you how much your child needs to grow a healthy body. "Every parent needs a copy of this book".
Children's foods, serves and nutrition needs are quite different to adults'. The serves in this=that child size are the right size for children. Start with these serves and be confident that your child is being well fed. This is not a scaled down version of the adult book.
I am running my stock out now that I have wound up my dietetic business. The price is super low and includes postage and handling within Australia. Grab yourself a bargain. The covers of some copies are slightly marked but if you order early, you are more likely to get a perfect copy. This is a soft-cover book.
ISBN: 9780980653700
Size: 310 x 225 mm
Weight close to 1.2 kg
Want to buy a copy of these books?
To keep costs down for you, I no longer have an online 'shop' so if you want to buy a copy of my books, you will need to contact me directly.
Please either email foodtalkaustralia@gmail.com with your contact details or phone 0407 117 030 and leave a voice message if I don't answer. I will personally call you to arrange a payment method that suits both of us. Do not send any credit card details via email or voice message.
I am sorry to say, no voice message means no return call because I get far too many nuisance hang-up missed calls from junk spammers. I expect you have also had that experience.
Frequently Asked Questions
I dismantled foodtalk's e-commerce site because of retirement. It was too costly to maintain for these last few book sales.
I accept PayPal and direct debit. Please wait for my personal call to provide details.
You can pay via PayPal after I send an invoice to you.
If you want to buy five or more copies, please email foodtalkaustralia@gmail.com to find out what discounts are available.
All books are posted in a firm cardboard wrapping box with tracking with Australia Post. The postage cost is factored into the total price. These books are quite heavy and large.
These are the last of my stock and the books may have marks/dents/scratches on the covers so I do not accept returns on these book orders. Do not expect perfect copies.
But if the book is damaged in transit, keep all the packaging and go to your post office to report the damage. The tracking automatically includes insurance cover for books damaged in transit.
foodtalk [est 1993]
Trudy Williams is the founder and person behind foodtalk.
Trudy established foodtalk in 1993! She is an Australian dietitian, nutrition author, and presenter (retired 2023).
With more than 40 fantastic years as a dietitian up my sleeve and heaps of real-world experience, I have lost count of how many people I have successfully helped to
get healthier on the inside and happier on the outside
get off the dieting treadmill and roller-coaster, and
build a more flexible and better relationship with food.
Now, you can benefit from my award-winning books that have helped so many people achieve their health goals, before the stock runs out.
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A message from Trudy
Industry, media, influencers and others thrive on presenting confusing, conflicting and, often, false or misleading information. They pummel us with crazy claims, fancy formulated foods and pseudo-science designed to trick us all into believing and buying into their latest product or adding to their followers for future income.
I'm here to tell you that the foundations of good nutrition are not complex ... the foods and drinks are pretty simple really but there's no value in this message for food and nutrition manufacturers and digital content producers.
Start with the basics and build your health and nutrition up from there.
I've retired and I am glad not to be battling the misguided gurus and misinformation that nutrition attracts.
So how did I start .....
When I was young, I wanted to be a medical doctor. I loved science and maths and still do. Queensland University accepted me into Med school. One day during an exam in the anatomy lab, it dawned on me that I didn't like cutting into human flesh; blood and guts were not for me (not that there’s blood in the anatomy lab). Somehow my childhood vision of helping people to get healthy and stay well didn’t factor in these medical basics.
I switched across to study Science.
After extensive studies in biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology and microbiology, and in my final year of Science at uni, I had no firm direction or purpose. What was I going to do with a Science degree? By chance, I stumbled across the field of human nutrition and dietetics. It offered the perfect combination of science, maths and helping people to get well and stay well.
Medicine without the blood. Medicine through food.
Why hadn’t I heard of nutrition and dietetics earlier?
At 20, I didn’t even know that human nutrition was a field of study. I knew down to the cellular level about how food was used. I knew oodles about chemical structures and enzymatic pathways within the human body but somehow, I didn’t join the dots with food. Food was nothing more than something I ate.
I was not a foodie. Super foods didn’t claim titles back then. I couldn’t afford to eat out or buy fancy foods. At night, I worked as a night-filler stacking shelves at the local supermarket (the shops were not open 24 hrs) and during holidays I trimmed fresh pineapples at the pineapple canning factory.
Adding to a Science degree (BSc), I graduated from dietetics in 1979. My experiences span medical nutrition therapies for adults and kids, weight and health management, nutrition research, university teaching, food services, public health nutrition, corporate and industry consultancy, nutrition communications, and private clinics.
I've helped people around the globe to become happier with their weight and size, and enjoy better health through my books, speaking and writing engagements, and one-on-one clinics.
I am an award-winning dietitian and my books are award-winning as well.
I have seen a lot of fad diets come and go, diets recycled with different names. I have seen diets promoted by celebrities and nutrition coaches who claim authority and expertise after taking brief on-line pseudo-science nutrition courses but who don’t have either the genuine qualifications or bonus knowledge that experience brings.
I hope you are more aware of who to trust your body’s nutrition to now that you have read my story and background. Seek professional advice from fully trained dietitians, with extensive experience in the concern you have.
Where am I now? At retirement, my interest shifted from nutrition to creating felted wearable and functional art from merino fibres. I show and sell my felted works in galleries.