“Eating well is important, but I don’t go in for sugar-free diets. You should have a little bit of everything”


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Food writer and TV presenter Mary Berry is one of the country’s most recognisable – and well-loved – faces. Most people know her best for her role as a judge in the


Great British Bake Off when the TV programme was a BBC show from 2010 to 2016. However Mary has spent many more years in the public


eye, not just on our TV screens but as a food editor on homemaker magazines and as the author of more than 70 cookbooks (with sales of five million and counting). Not bad for someone whose first job was showing customers how to use electric ovens at an electricity board showroom. Mary was born in Bath and showed promise in baking


from an early age. But her domestic science studies were interrupted when, at the age of 13, she contracted polio and subsequently spent three months in hospital. She recovered


6 All About health


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She may be famous for her impeccable dress sense and flawless hair, but TV’s Mary Berry is also the nation’s undisputed queen of cakes. So how does she stay looking so young and healthy?


from her illness, but it left her with a twisted spine, a weaker left hand and a thinner left arm. That, however, didn’t stop her from going on to study at the Bath School of Home Economics as well as at the world-famous Le Cordon Bleu institute in Paris. Many years, magazines, cookbooks and TV programmes


later Mary was awarded a CBE for services to culinary arts in 2010. But she didn’t just have a busy and successful career, as Mary found time to have a family too, marrying her husband Paul Hunnings in 1966 and having three children.


A balanced diet For someone whose job revolves around making and tasting food, Mary never seems to gain any weight. So what, we wondered, is her secret?


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