Looking back, the first hint that I was ageing prematurely was the 15 kilograms of extra weight I’d stealthily accumulated through my 20s and mid-30s.
For decades, scientists and the rest of us assumed that middle-aged spread is inevitable. Yet it turns out that this is far from the case. Our metabolism, the rate at which our bodies burn calories, doesn’t change much at all between the ages of 20 and 60.
Instead, as I discuss in my new book, The Age Code, the problem is more about what we’re eating. Diet is increasingly being shown to be the biggest contributor to
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