Daily Mail, Thursday, March 5, 2020^ Page 37
Tamsin: Corset agony sent me to osteopath
Restrictive role: Tamsin Greig in BelgraviaAS THE star of a period drama, she had
to wear a corset for 12 hours a day on
set. But Tamsin Greig said she was
forced to see an osteopath as a result.
The actress plays Anne Trenchard in
ITV series Belgravia, written by Down-
ton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes.
However, she found the role rather
too restrictive, insisting on being taken
out of the undergarment at lunch asshe struggled to move. The six-part
historical drama, adapted from Fel-
lowes’s 2016 novel, tells the story of
upper-class families in 1840s London.
Miss Greig, 53, said yesterday: ‘I was
under the care of an osteopath quite
quickly. I should have prepared myselfbefore filming by actually wearing a
corset for a couple of hours a day. To
suddenly be in one for 12 hours a day is
pretty tough because we’re used to
being able to move our spines. We had
a half hour for lunch and I began to
insist that I had to be taken out of it.’
Belgravia, which also stars Philip
Glenister and Tom Wilkinson, begins on
March 15 and airs at 9pm.By Eleanor Sharples
TV and Radio Reporterate more red meat – which
could be behind the link.
After researchers took such
dietary factors into account,
along with others such as age
and lifestyle, they found
there was no association
between egg consumption
and cardiovascular disease.
They wrote: ‘Results from
t h i s c o h o r t s t u d y a n d
updated meta-analysis show
that moderate egg consump-
tion – up to one egg per day –
is not associated with cardio-
vascular disease risk overall.’In a linked editorial, Profes-
sor Andrew Odegaard at the
University of California Irvine
said the results of the studywere convincing. But he
added: ‘We should not put all
our eggs in this observational
basket for formal guidance
on eating eggs.
‘If frequent egg consump-tion is occurring in the con-
text of an overall dietary pat-
tern known to be cardio -
protective, or eggs are being
consumed for essential nutri-
tional needs, then it is proba-
bly nothing to worry about.’
Dietitian Dr Carrie Ruxton,
adviser to the British Egg
Information Service, said last
night: ‘Given that eggs are
rich in protein and nutrient-
dense, providing one of the
few dietary sources of vita-
min D, it’s great that we can
put people’s minds to rest.’GOING to work on an
egg won’t do you any
harm after all.
Plans to bring back the
1 9 5 0 s s l o g a n – m a d e
famous by TV adverts star-
ring comedian Tony Han-
cock – were vetoed in 2007
because it failed to pro-
mote a balanced diet.
Experts feared that eating
too many eggs raised choles-
terol – a major cause of heart
attacks and strokes.
But now a 30-year study of
210,000 Americans, led by
Harvard University research-
ers, concluded that eating
one egg a day would do noth-
ing to raise the risk of cardio-
vascular disease – including
heart attacks and strokes –
compared to eating fewer
than one a month.
The study, published last
night in the British Medical
Journal, suggested the origi-
nal fears about heart disease
may have been linked to
other factors. Those who ate
more eggs, for example, alsoBy Ben Spencer
Medical Correspondent
Cracking! Youreally can go to
work on an egg
‘Put people’s
minds to rest’