Is Good Food History?Are You Looking for a More Nutritious Diet? The Answer Might Just Lie in the Past.

The Herald › February 14, 2005

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IT HAS been the focus of advertising campaigns and educational drives, recipe mountains and ink lakes: the Scottish diet, in all its dubious glory, has never been so talked about.

There has been much wringing of hands in the last decade over the links between the diet of Scots and the country's high rates of obesity and heart disease.

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Is Good Food History?Are You Looking for a More Nutritious Diet? The Answer Might Just Lie in the Past.

Yet while the nation's love affair with chips is a real one, it is also relatively recent. The diet on which Scots had subsisted for centuries - some even until a generation ago - was one that would make the most GI-jolly Californian nutritionist weep with envy. Oatmeal, oily fish, kale - Scottish dietary traditions are actually among the healthiest in the industrialised world. And the good news is that more people, following the example of chefs such as Nick Nairn, are rediscovering the simple go...

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