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My friend David Adams has been promoting The Fast Diet for some time. David is also the person who has tuned me in to thinking about gaining lightness rather than losing weight. And armed with the fast diet he has gained some fantastic lightness by fasting two days out of seven over the past half year. Now Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is promoting the same programme in the Guardian. What is interesting about his article is the context. "All my books and TV shows are largely complicit with [society's] disastrous approach to eating," he writes. "I like to think I am at the healthier, more natural end of the spectrum...but I think it would be unwise not to acknowledge that even the 'River Cottage diet' - rich as it ought to be in fresh vegetables and fruit - is open to abuse. "The fact is that even those of us who know exactly what a sensible...healthy diet looks like still struggle to keep to one much of the time. "The industrialisation of f...

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother would not recognise as food, says Michael Pollan in his new, cheap book called Food Rules An Eater's Manual. If you sell treats, top-up food items or everything, this book will help you plan your future. "There are now thousands of foodish products in the supermarket that our ancestors simply wouldn't recognise as food. The reasons to avoid eating such complicated food products are many..." he writes in rule two on great-grandmothers. However, in his introduction, Pollan offers his basic philosophy for healthy eating: Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants. Rule 64 is break the rules once in a while. Rule 60 is Treat treats as treats. Rule 44 is Pay more, eat less... Rule 36 is Don't eat breakfast cereals that change the color of the milk. What makes this book so enjoyable is it is very short, well written and provides you with plenty of food for thought about what is going on in your shoppers' minds. Perhap...