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Professor Tim Spector, who started his medical career in rheumatology but who has focused much of his interest in recent years on diet, is the co-founder of the ZOE app which has gathered Covid related data from more than four million people in the UK.

The topic has become a hot potato of political correctness, which means that any statement or research linking ill health to excess weight risks being vilified as “fat shaming”. We need honesty on an entirely new level from politicians as well as from health practitioners. Grass-roots education is vital, but will not in itself be enough. We need a complete overhaul of how and what we eat. Any kind of traffic light system, or focus on single ingredients, is pointless. Headline grabbing topics such as a tax on sugar and salt are, to my mind, simply not helpful. Cambridge Cookery School CafÃ© - Tine Roche, Managing Director of the Cambridge Cookery School.Pic - Richard Marsham. Hailed by some as a wake up call and criticised by others for not being radical enough, the report tackles huge issues within a complex food system from biodiversity and land use to food security. This summer saw the completion of the Henry Dimbleby-led independent review of our food systems, resulting in the National Food Strategy. Obesity, and the many consequences of the diabetes that it causes, is one of the fastest growing diseases of our time. Now it also means malnutrition in the form of poor quality over-nutrition, with many developing countries battling both starvation and obesity at the same time. Until recently, food poverty equalled under-nutrition and starvation. In the UK, and most other parts of the Western world, obesity is linked to lower socio-economic conditions - poor diet as a result of poverty. Now it can also mean the exact opposite - having access to plenty of food, but none of it giving us any sustenance.

Being well fed used to mean the opposite of going hungry. Our newfound reliance on processed food, made in distant factories and production kitchens, means the food we eat is depriving us of vital nutrients.

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In less than 50 years we have lost our connection to where food comes from and how to prepare it. Meals were not exciting, but they were nutritionally sound. Only a couple of generations ago, pre-supermarkets, pre-ready-meals and pre-Deliveroo et al, cooking was done at home, mainly on a very limited budget and based on frugal recipes. Whilst lockdown caused a flurry of interest in baking and to a lesser degree cooking, the reality is that more and more of our meals are being delivered to our door, as and when we fancy it. One of the major changes has been an increased reliance on food deliveries and with it a relaxing of previous principles around what is and isn’t acceptable at meal times. The past year has been different for most of us, some routines and habits have changed permanently. September is usually a month when we return from a less structured summer life to more fixed routines. Knowing how to cook fresh, from-scratch meals filled with flavour and nutrition isn’t a luxury: it’s a life skill vital to the health of both humans and the planet, writes Cambridge Cookery MD Tine Roche Fresh, flavour- and nutrient-filled salads are a staple on Cambridge Cookery's counter (49952953)