“I began to realise that I was hugely underestimating the power of veg to deliver pleasure as well as goodness to me and my family”


Hugh’s fat fight


Being a celebrity chef surrounded by fabulous foods has its drawbacks, as Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall discovered this year


If you’re a fan of TV cookery programmes, you’ll no doubt be familiar with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s down-to-earth approach to food. The celebrity chef – who’s also a journalist and food writer – has campaigned on many food and environmental issues, and is probably best known for his River Cottage series for Channel 4. Indeed, 53-year-old Fearnley-Whittingstall has made more


than 20 cookery-based series and written more than 10 cookery books. He styles himself as a champion of healthy eating, claiming to enjoy vegetables as much as sirloin steak. “I began to realise that I was hugely underestimating the power of veg to deliver pleasure as well as goodness to me


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and my family,” he wrote in an article for The Independent. “That was when I decided that a stint as a vegetarian might do me – and my kitchen repertoire – some good.” Fearnley-Whittingstall’s latest challenge, however, saw him


taking on the issue of obesity. In his recent BBC series, Britain’s Fat Fight with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, the celebrity chef attempted to answer crucial questions including, why are we eating so much? “When you get to the point where two-thirds of the


population are overweight or obese, a quarter of the population are clinically obese, 30 per cent of us are prediabetic… you realise this is a problem that won’t just


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