Healthy eating makes you miserable

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Mary McCartney, photographer daughter of Sir Paul, and author of a new vegetarian cookery book, recently described her usual breakfast: "I make myself a disgustingly healthy smoothie every morning [...] if I've had something virtuous for breakfast, it doesn't matter so much if things go a bit haywire later on." Apparently - it's less an alternative to a slice of toast and Marmite, and more of a chemistry experiment.

So when did eating well become so complicated and so joyless? Michael Pollan, author of the bestselling In Defence of Food, says that humanity has been feeding itself successfully for millennia, but now we wait to be told what we should eat rather than decide what we'd like to eat. Nutrition therapist Ian Marber warns that obsessing about whether food is healthy or unhealthy may actually be one of the reasons one is getting fatter, the Daily Mail reports.

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