The Sunday Telegraph

All the ingredient­s for a healthy old age

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SIR disagree with Dr Tony Hall’s prescripti­on for weight loss (Letters, June 6).

My weight is 160lbs, and I can still wear all the suits that I bought over 30 years ago.

How boring to live without wine. I drink half a bottle every day. We eat fish four or five days a week, drink instant coffee with full-cream milk, eat little bread, and never drink beer.

Today, however, we’re eating sausages, green beans, carrots and peppers. I am 88: perhaps Dr Hall and I should exchange notes in five years’ time.

Chris Minter

London SW6

SIR – I don’t know if Dr Tony Hall is hoping to live for 200 years, but with a diet of “broccoli, plain fish, nut cutlet, wheat beer and semiskimme­d milk” it will certainly feel like it.

John Newbury

Warminster, Wiltshire

 ??  ?? Bring me flesh and bring me wine: Le Saumon (1864) by Edouard Manet
Bring me flesh and bring me wine: Le Saumon (1864) by Edouard Manet

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