Entries by Amelia Tait

Beware the mix of food and fear – the truth about ultra-processed foods is still emerging | Amelia Tait

Research on UPFs should be a wake-up call – but if people miss out on nutrients in a quest to avoid them, is it really helping?If you consumed a lot of news last year, you’d be forgiven for thinking that strawberry yoghurt wants to murder you. Since la...

‘I wanted to be small and not seen’: how Shallow Hal almost broke Gwyneth Paltrow’s body double

When Paltrow put on a fat suit for the Farrelly brothers’ blockbuster, an unknown acting student was hired as her body double. Two years later, Ivy Snitzer was starving to deathIvy Snitzer has screen presence – even on Zoom – with her safety pin earrin...

I re-read my teenage diaries hoping for a dose of nostalgia – instead I was horrified

Lust, cruelty and a desperate need for attention ... I thought my old journals would bring back warm memories – in reality they were a document of the unique misery and painful insecurities of adolescenceI own nine of the most devastatingly embarrassin...

After years of torture, I broke free of the tyranny of calorie counting | Amelia Tait

Focusing on the calories in your diet is antiquated and destructive. I wish I could have told my anorexic teenage selfWhen science fiction writers imagine great, grandiose methods of social control – matrixes! Microchips! Really big bros! – they ignore...