What is the SEAT plan, and can it change your life?

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Would you be offended if someone told you to stop eating all the time? If so, you wouldn’t be alone. The subject of people’s dietary habits has become so fraught that criticising how a person eats is akin to criticising their children. Or, worse, their dog.

But research is increasingly showing that one of the biggest health issues facing us today is that we never stop eating. It wasn’t so long ago that we were being advised it was healthier to ‘graze’ in order to prevent blood sugar peaks and troughs. Endless newspaper articles dictated five small meals a day, rather than three normal sized ones. So what’s changed? Well, the short answer is: awareness around gut health and insulin levels.

We now know that your digestive system needs time to recover between meals, in order to function as it should, and insulin levels are designed to go up and down. ‘Constantly elevated insulin levels impact a huge number of conditions, including heart disease, diabetes, l…