Very little of the eating that happens in the modern world is as simple as: feel hungry, eat food. The great challenge for most people is learning how to recognise when we have had enough.

One of the commonest ways our eating goes wrong is that we consistently choose foods that offer immediate satiation in the belly rather than longer lasting satiety.

Very little about the way we eat is, in fact, logical.

It’s easy to confuse hunger with other emotional states.

We eat so often and so much because we have more or less lost touch with the signals our body is sending us about hunger.

Up until the age of three, children have a remarkable ability to stop eating when they are full.

The loss of hunger regulation after the age of four is a phenomenon that transcends cultures and continents.

We need new eating methods to take account of the new ways we are being supplied with food.

It’s a chancy business, taking our cues about how much to consume from our surroundings.