Fiona’s views on food, nutrition and eating…

“My approach to healthy eating is based on the principle that ‘there’s no such thing as a bad food, only a bad diet’. Of course some foods are healthier than others but, providing most of what you eat most of the time is healthy and balanced, that’s enough.

Food is one of life’s great pleasures or at least it should be and it’s important to enjoy the food you eat. It’s also important that you look after your body – it’s the only one you’ve got and it’s got to last a lifetime so you need to cherish it.

Although choosing a healthy diet is just one part of the ‘looking-after-your-body’ jigsaw, I believe it’s a pretty fundamental part.

In 2011, US journalist Michael Pollan wrote a book called ‘Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual’ – it’s an excellent book and if you haven’t read it already I urge you to do so.

In the book Pollan says everything he’s learnt about food and health can be summed up in seven words ‘Eat food, not too much, mostly plants’ for me this sums up the current thinking on how to eat a healthy balanced diet perfectly. At the risk of being presumptuous the only thing I think Pollan should add to this statement is ‘Enjoy what you eat!’

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