"It's a good idea to have longer periods without food"

rer Michael Mosley's goal is to improve people's health and not to thwart them. Whether it's people struggling with food issues or the food industry who grows unhealthy snacks, he always chooses his words carefully. But the man who revolutionized diet with the 5: 2 diet is frustrated by the speed at which things change.

The nutritional advice of the NHS tells us first of all that it is important to eat five times a day, and that your meals should be mainly based on starchy foods such as potatoes, bread, rice and pasta. So, the NHS tells us to keep bodies constantly loaded with carbohydrates, as if we had not learned anything about the benefits of intermittent fasting that …