Time to get smart about your relationship with food?

The phenomenon of comfort eating is well established but many of us don’t realise how much our brain influences our attitude to food, says Jonathan de Burca Butler

We all know ‘we are what we eat’. But what if it weren’t necessarily true or at least if things like where we eat, how we eat and what we eat with have more of an effect on us than we previously thought.

“There’s a lot more to food than food itself,” says Professor Charles Spence of Oxford University. “And it’s the same for drink.”