Thinking on Monday: Why Diets Don’t Work

What should we be eating? When? How often? How important is food when it comes to our overall health? Nutrition expert Pixie Turner unpacks why diet and nutrition misinformation is so problematic.

Despite a wealth of information at our fingertips there are still so many things we get wrong about our health, and with a new diet book out every other day it’s no wonder people are confused. What should we be eating? When? How often? Just how important is food when it comes to our overall health?

Humans have always been a bit weird around food. We’re told eating certain foods are the key to living longer, some foods are ‘sinful’ or ‘bad’, that ‘you are what you eat’, and that we must seek to obtain health at all costs. All this means we follow crazy diets that make things worse rather than better and have a population where most of us dislike our bodies.

Pixie Turner will unpack why diet and nutrition misinformation is so problematic, on social media, in mass media, and on a public health level, and why we could all benefit from taking a moment to assess our personal relationship with food. Expect some mythbusting, diet rants, and lots of fully-referenced evidence-based science.

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Pixie Turner is a nutritionist (ANutr), food blogger, and science communicator. She graduated with a First Class degree in Biochemistry, and went on to complete a Masters in Nutrition with Distinction. She has been featured as a nutrition expert on BBC and Channel 5, and in publications such as Red magazine, Evening Standard, Grazia, the Telegraph and more. Her second book, ‘The No Need to Diet Book’ was March 2019 and will be available at the talk.

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Doors 7.15pm. Start 7.30pm.

Entry £8, £4 concessions (free to Conway Hall Ethical Society members, who should book these tickets in advance)

Event is subject to capacity, without exceptions. Space will be reserved for ticket holders.

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This event is in the Brockway Room on the ground floor (accessible, Induction loop audio). For accessi