Recovering from surgery in hospital, I was visited by an old friend who said “I expect you’ll survive” adding hastily “Oh don’t worry I checked to see if any of the docs had been struck off. No, it’s the food that could kill you!”

What was laughingly called lunch arrived in a plain brown wrapper er a cover. Before tasting I asked who the chef was.The answer”Our dietitian.”

I had an immediate relapse.

Dietitians/Nutritionists have been the most baleful of all influences on our food. They believe that you eat to live – period. Food is fuel. The only value it has is in calories which express energy. Nutritionists are puritans redux. Every time I read that chocolate is so good that it’s “sinful” wink, wink, I think of the cartoon of the vicar jumping the lady doing the flowers. “Oh Vicar, that’s not right. “No but it’s nice,”   more »