It’s a new year, and we are told by the media that it is time for a New You. Someone who is better, wiser and – most insistently – thinner.
Publishers traditionally pump out January diet books urging self-restraint after the season of mince pies and merrymaking. But this time I am not mournfully spearing a mouthful of kale after too much Christmas pudding. Being “lean in 15” is not for me, nor do I practise “clean eating”. In short, diets are not my thing.
May I suggest my alternative approach this New Year, rooted both in science as well as age-old Christian wisdom? Try eating with your mood, rather than your waistline, in mind.
