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Food is intensely pleasurable, and people are afraid that if they change the way they eat, they'll stop having pleasure.

Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do to the digestive system? I am sure that an unhappy or suspicious stomach, constricted and uneasy with worry, cannot digest properly.

Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.

Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out to dinner. But they forget quite how difficult it is to talk to a stranger and eat at the same time.

You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying.

Food is not your remedy for problems. Food is not going to change your life. If you are lonely, food is not going to be your company. If you are sad, food is not going to give you solace.

I try to show that I have no fear. When you grow up hungry, you're not afraid of anything.

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.

Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'