Last week dragged with it yet more news of the UK’s gastronomic inadequacy and ignorance of such nebulous concepts as “nutrition” and “balanced diet”. It’s been 20 years since the seemingly arbitrary five-a-day rule was conceived by a group of carrot-peddling fruit and veg companies in California, but it would seem that we Brits haven’t taken this particular stroke of marketing genius to belly, for we eat the fewest vegetables in all of Europe.

Not only are we not eating our greens, according to a recent study over half of the meals eaten out in this country are – gasp! – fast food.

As ever, the press cherry-pick the naughty side of fast food and have us believe that we’re scarfing tonnes of cheese-slapped patties flopped between two halves of a bun with a squirt of acrid gunge and a side order of fries. This is, of course, bunk. Continue reading at the Guardian...