LAURA THOMAS

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A registered nutritionist, Laura featured earlier this year on BBC1’S acclaimed Mind over

Marathon programmes. She also pops up on radio, in podcasts and in the print media. Why? Because she is the sworn enemy of fads, trends and tedious, unhelpful food fashions. She retweets good advice, engages in debate, calls out charlatans and generally acts as a one-woman sorting service for nutritional information. ‘ The biggest nonsense I see is that is that people have to eat the perfect diet in order to be healthy,’ she says. ‘ There’s the detox myth, the refined-sugar-free myth… As though if you have some semblance of balance that’s going to be your undoing. Suddenly messages such as cutting down on sugar get interpreted as cutting out sugar, moving from evidencebased nutrition into the arena of nutri-bollocks.’

And for the vast majority of readers, Laura’s trenchant views on chasing the body beautiful will be music to the ears: ‘ Many active people chase an aesthetic goal that is unrealistic because they’ve seen their “ideal” on social media, but despite monitoring and tracking everything that goes in their mouth, they don’t get there because everyone is different and genetics plays a big part. That’s the wrong attitude to have towards food. I help people to pay attention to their satiety and hunger cues, to learn how to fuel themselves for the joy of movement and to feel good, and to accept that they are probably not going to have washboard abs or a peachy ass and that this

is OK.’ Amen to that.