“YOU are what you eat” is one of those phrases that conjure up ideas about the relationship between our diet and the kind of people we become. Those who used the phrase in its original setting and the makers of the Channel 4 diet programme with the same name were playing with the notion that the food we eat has a bearing on our state of mind and health and, of course, has a further bearing on the quality and longevity of our life.
What we eat, how much we eat and how well we look after our bodies is a crucial part of any holistic approach to personal well-being. Addiction, craving, compulsive disorder and dependence are all complex conditions which require detailed, determined and persistent remedies.