This week in food

This week I managed to catch an awesome program out of Channel 4 in the UK called "Eataholics" The premise of the program is to take someone with massive food phobias or a hugely selective diet and engage them with a nutritionist and a psychologist to find the root cause of their problem and help them work towards a healthier diet. I am not usually a fan of the voyeuristic but this program gives a really fascinating insight into one of the major concerns with a modern western diet, and that's the decreasing diversity in our diet. Even as the number of items in our supermarkets increase, more and more of these are simply reconfigurations of the same basic staples, paired with fat, sugar and salt. It also highlights the advanced psychological role food plays in our wellbeing, from creating a sense of community, to the role of comfort foods and our childhood diet. Well worth a watch.