How to eat now

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Few aspects of wellness are as controversial or contested as nutrition (and, in a world of everything from vagina steaming to perineum sunning, that’s saying something).

It’s a subject often best avoided because - like politics, religion and parenting styles - people become so entrenched in their beliefs that they take any other opinion as a personal slight. Which is funny because one thing I’ve come to realise about nutrition is how important it is to keep an open mind.

As an example of how drastically things can change, back in the 1980s and 1990s, fat in food was nutritional enemy number one. Public health information advised us to cut down on fat, causing an explosion of low-fat products, often packed with sugar or artificial flavours.

Of course, anyone with a passing interest in nutrition now knows the importance of good fats - such as those in nuts, seed…