Spoonfed by the convenience food sector

BROWSING the pages of the Financial Times on Saturday, February 11, I was surprised to read Margaret McCartney’s account of a new study which suggests that what we eat may have less impact on our health than we think - entertainingly entitled ‘Eat Fat and Be Merry’.

The survey found little difference in health among people who ate whatever they wanted to eat against those who kept fat and other perceived undesirable food stuffs out of their eating plans.

The findings are not going to change world eating habits, especially as the study was a one-off, but the results seem to undermine the widely accepted view that we can eat our way to better health.