SOD the diets. That is what exercise and nutrition specialist Ian Craig says, anyway.They do not work, he says. There are various reasons for this, but the biggest is that different people need different diets, because, well, we are all individuals. His colleague Rachel Jesson agrees, and they have set it all out in a very readable book, Wholesome Nutrition for You.The premise is this: what the diets — any diet, take your pick — get wrong is that they present enthusiastically what works for a few as a panacea for all.It is pretty much a no-brainer that everyone has their own particular genetic and physiological make up, yet we act as though we are all the same. It is no surprise, they say, that this causes tears and family arguments.In fact, not only do we each metabolise food in our own way, we respond to exercise, sleep and whatever else we do in our own ways. That’s why the world produces people like Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, able to illuminate human speed in ways hitherto un...
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