A healthy respect for Lisa’s diet guru

Hats off to Amelia Freer, a former personal assistant to Prince Charles, for making such a success of her diet business, as you reported last week. What particularly pleases me is that she is speaking from experience: she overhauled her own diet to improve her health.

No wonder celebrities such as TV presenter Lisa Snowdon listen so readily to her and take her advice. There’s no arguing with someone who can say: ‘I know, because this worked for me.’

May we have more experts out there who don’t just dish out advice because they’ve read about it somewhere. As they say, there’s no substitute for experience.

F. Cates, London

Spiralised squash? Palmyra jaggery? Coconut nectar crystals? Rest assured, Amelia Freer, I, for one, won’t be calling upon your services any time soon if that’s what you recommend eating for a trimmer figure.

If anyone really wants to be shrunk this way, I suggest they go see a shrink! Vincent Hefter, Richmond-upon-Thames FOLLOWER: Lisa Snowdon owes her trim form to Amelia’s regime