Sarah Wilson

Wilson was a journalist and the first host of MasterChef Australia when she began cutting sugar out of her diet, and I Quit Sugar turned that into a business of books, meal plans and an eight-week programme. She holds no nutrition or medical qualification, and dietitians criticised the programme for treating fruit as a problem and for the distance between the evidence on added sugar and the total elimination being sold. She closed the company in 2018 and gave the proceeds away. First, We Make the Beast Beautiful is about living with anxiety, which she has had since childhood, and about Hashimoto's disease.