When Dominique Ludwig thinks back to her early and mid-20s, she winces when she recalls the frozen pizza, Diet Coke and orange squash that would routinely form part of her diet. She may have taken a degree in home economics, followed by a master’s degree in nutrition at King’s College London, but that didn’t make her immune to the lure of junk food.
At the time she was on a low student income, so loading her fridge with lots of cheap and filling foods seemed the obvious way to get by. “On my course we were studying deficiency diseases in the developing world, cardiovascular disease and cancer, but nothing about the major health issues of our time in our own society like obesity, inflammation and type 2 diabetes,” she says.
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