Nutrition

What we eat underpins our whole health.  In the wealthy West, where food of all kinds is plentiful, we should therefore all be thriving.  Instead, there's a correlation between populations adopting 'modern' Western diets, and an increase in heart disease and cancer.  The endless supply of food that we enjoy is often denatured by over-processing.  Meanwhile food manufacturers and retailers have multi-million pound marketing budgets to persuade us to eat cheap, high-fat, high-sugar snacks.

We need an ever greater level of education and willpower to navigate and understand the choices that our supermarkets offer us.   Over the coming months, these pages will carry a range of perspectives on how, as individuals and as a society, we can re-learn how to eat well.