12Eat Well

Eating should be enjoyable. As the Italian opera singer Luciano Pavarotti once said ‘One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.’ OK, so maybe Pavarotti ate a bit too well – his weight crept up to over 20 stone.

Our bodies come in different shapes, sizes, and abilities and we have different lifestyles, but we all need to eat a varied and balanced diet that provides our bodies with what they need to function at their best. But what should you eat and what shouldn't you eat? Which new diet to follow? What are the latest must-have superfoods? What are the right foods? What are the wrong foods?

If you feel overwhelmed by all the conflicting ...

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