Welcome
One thing I’ve discovered working on Healthy Food Guide is that healthy eating is a surprisingly emotive topic. Food isn’t only fuel for our body, it’s part of our identity. It plays a role in how we give or receive love and hospitality, spend time with friends and family, mark life’s significant occasions, nurture our children, express creativity, gain pleasure, and for some, process emotions and reward or deny ourselves. Because of this, trying to eat healthily can become a complicated affair. This is especially so when so much healthy eating advice is infiltrated by diet culture and weight-loss messaging, particularly in this era of social media, where ‘fitspo’ influencers push their plans, products and supplements onto anyone who follows them. For anyone who has struggled with their relationship with food, these messages…
