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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Health
Madeleine Aggeler

The radical practice of eating what you want

Graphic illustration split down the middle into a pastel blue background with a juicy pink grapefruit on pastel blue, and a pink donut with rainbow sprinkles on a yellow background.

Figuring out what to eat is complicated. What are you in the mood for? What do other people in your household want? What can you afford? What do you have time to prepare?

Add the ambient pressure of a culture that loudly celebrates certain foods, bodies and lifestyles as desirable while vilifying others, and the simple question of what to have for dinner becomes fraught.

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