Hunger Games: Bee Wilson

‘So many of our anxieties around diet take the form of a search for the perfect food, the one that will cure all our ills.

Eat this! Don’t eat that! We obsess about the properties of various ingredients: the protein, the omega oils, the vitamins. But nutrients only count when a person picks up food and eats it.

How we eat how we approach food is what really matters. If we are going to change our diets, we first have to relearn the art of eating, which is a question of psychology as much as nutrition. We have to find a way to want to eat what’s good for us’

Governments keep trying to fix the obesity crisis with well intentioned recommendations But advice alone never taught a child to eat better so its strange that we think it will work on adults.

Read the Guardian’s article>