We spend millions starving and carving our bodies to rid ourselves of it, yet fat manages our fertility, balances our energy books and supplies our defences. Don't fuss over food. It is to be hoped that middle-class parents who chivvy their children about their diet will also be prepared to pay for their private health insurance subscriptions when they are adults. Parental concern, admirable though it may be, may have the effect of not only giving their children an obsession about food, but at the same time their bossiness may modify the child's natural appetite, and response to it. Fat 'is an organ' say scientists.
Scientists believe fat plays an important role in helping the body to work properly.
Your life on a plate. Don't eat that. Professor Cooper says that there is now so much information and advice about healthy food and diets, consumers are having difficulty coping. One of the problems is that we have so many conflicting reports from doctors on what is nutritious. The advice changes all the time.