Evening Standard - ES Magazine
DINNER
Hannah Richards: 1 Pick your poison. If you love alcohol, have it, but limit the days you drink it. 2 Where possible, eat food that your ancestors ate — things that were alive, were pulled off a tree or dug up from the ground — as little messed around with as possible. 3 If anything has ingredients that don’t sound like food, don’t eat it. Amelia Freer: 1 Buy fewer ready-made products and prepare more meals: dressings, tinned foods, cereals, marinated fish and meat, ketchups, jams and sushi may contain hidden sugars. 2 Combine food that breaks down to sugar with protein and fats to prevent the metabolic peak and crash: for example, eat fruit in moderation and always with protein (don’t snack on it, juice lots of it or buy pre-made juices). 3 Be careful of ‘health’ products claiming to be low-fat and gluten-free as they often contain added sugar.
In short: remember the joys of eating (home-cooked) meat and two (preferably leafy green) veg.