The Mid Life Health Boost

Ditch those fad diets and instantly boost your future health

- Megan Rowe

We all get sucked into the latest fad diet – but the conflicting nutritional advice can be confusing. One minute we’re told to ditch carbs at night, the next eat kale with every meal and increase our protein intake. Eek!

But the older we get, the more vital it is to avoid fad diets and convoluted nutritional approaches like detoxing and “clean eating”.

Mimi Spencer and Sam Rice, authors of The Midlife Kitchen, look beyond buzzwords and crazy diet plans. They’re all about commonsense eating and taking a more sensible, grownup approach that doesn’t overpromise. Here they reveal their basic guiding principles.