Sublime

In a busy life, the organization required for regular, shared dinners can seem unattainable; even if they can manage the shopping and the cooking, parents often hesitate to assume the authority to gather everyone together to eat, never mind to insist that everyone eat the same food. But the experience of eating disorders shows that this is partly a

wheat, fructose (the natural sugar found in fruit), and certain fats, proving that an extremely low-carbohydrate but high-fat diet is ideal (we’re talking no more than 60 grams of carbs a day—the amount in a serving of fruit).

The scientific evidence—both from humans and rats—shows that the theory of the “wisdom of the body” is flawed at best. For the theory to be true, omnivores would need to have specific appetites for the essential nutrients the body needed at any given time.

After 60 years of anxious, expert-driven over-control of family meal-times, we’ve finally learnt that parents need to relax about food intake. The little saying, ‘Parent provides, child decides’

there's a big crock of softened butter on almost every cook's station, and it's getting a heavy workout. Margarine? That's not food.

We accept the lie that there’s a perfect way of eating that will save your soul and send you careering blithely through your eighties, into your nineties and beyond. Do what you want, we’re told – but you’ll die if you get it wrong.

With the countryside fully settled and all of the natural resources owned by someone, there was very little opportunity to supplement food stocks from the wild. All wild animals and plants belonged in law to the person who owned the land they were on – not the person who rented it, but the freehold owner. This excluded most small-scale and even fai

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