From gluten free to vegan: The truth about nutritional trends

Never before has the food we put in our mouths been more talked about, analysed and tutted over by self-styled food experts – those rangy, glossy-haired, bright-eyed girls who preach “clean eating” on social media and who seem to have given up on every food except, maybe, avocados.
We may sneer, but don’t we all secretly rather wish we could look a bit more like them? Record numbers of us are trying out their gluten-free, dairy-free, meat-free or vegan regimes. Search Instagram for #cleaneating and more than 25 million posts come up.
“We see these very pretty, personable girls and think we... read more