From the age of 40, dear young people who may read this column, something tremendous happens: your tummy becomes very fussy and everything starts to go wrong. “Shhhhooo, since I gave up flour, I feel great…, because flour is the devil, and that's why we are all inflamed.” “So thank you friends for the advice, but I am not psychologically prepared to lead a life without bread,” she says.

‘I have a theory: and it is that TV programming throws you distressing, “paranoid” information almost all the time, which makes you rethink this whole thing about loving life’