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somewhere. When commentators speak
of 2016 being the year of ‘post-truth’
they’re generally talking about how the
political conversation was hijacked by
sensation and misrepresentation as
fuelled by social media. But the same
might be said of the food conversation.
In the realm of dietetics, never before
have people been so thoroughly
overwhelmed and impressed upon by
‘wellness’ dilettantes and opportunistic
quacks. And from the Sugar Papers
scandal to the clean-eating rage, never
before have we been so misinformed.
So this is our 2017 Nutrition Issue:
a straight-up, informative and (we hope)
fun guide to your gut and how to love it,
inside and out. Yes, there are avocados.
But there are sausages, too. Crucially
there is veracity. Ahead of the Brexit
vote, Michael Gove famously stated
that people have had enough of experts.
He was wrong. We’ve had enough of
charlatans. This is our riposte.TOBY WISEMAN
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These five mouth-watering
recipes sit in the middle of
the Venn diagram between
dietary virtue and greasy vice
The Sugar Papers
could be the biggest
health scandal since
Big Tobacco. We
unsweeten the deal
Weightloss needn’t
feel so puritanical.
Our metabolism-firing
bacon breakfast will
make you long for 7am
International chefs share the
spices they live by, for a global
guide to toothsome health
The concept of ‘wellness’
has sprouted into little
more than a hashtag. MH
untangles the health facts
from the spiralling fads
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