Abandoning self denial
There have always been health fads, but rather like the late David Niven observing that Xmas seems to come every three months, the rapidity of different and often contradictory health fads is breathtaking.
Yesterday we heard that rosehip syrup could sort out arthritis and other ailments. Echinacea and St John’s wort all have distinct properties which add to one’s health and wellbeing, as does garlic or ginger. Pomegranate juice is the new elixir of life – apparently.
Somehow with all the ever-changing do’s and don’t’s on offer, it is hardly surprising that we simply give up over Xmas and eat all sorts of things which we shouldn’t. What the faddists forget, I think, is the wonderful sense of wellbeing and satisfaction from eating excessively. Somehow in our subconscious I think we deserve it! The guilt comes later……..