How We Eat: 3. Eating By The Rules
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Increasing numbers of people in Britain seem to eat according to very clearly defined rules, from fashionable Clean Eaters to religious believers to professional sportspeople. In this third programme in the series How we Eat, Sheila Dillon talks to them about the rules they follow and why, sometimes, rules make life not only easier but more enjoyable. She meets vlogger Madeleine Shaw, an Instagram Star with 275,000 followers, whose 12-point eating philosophy includes the rule "Don't Eat Anything Beige". She talks to followers of the ancient Jain religion, who believe it's deeply wrong to eat root vegetables or anything raw. If they break the rules, there is a complex system of atonement. She visits a slimming class to discover the pleasures of eating according to a clearly defined plan and why iced Chelsea buns are evil. And she talks to professional athletes, a jockey and a boxer, about how they eat when they know that their entire livelihood depends on not gaining a single pound.
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| 0:47.4 | We hope you enjoy it. How do we eat these days? Well, differently as we're finding in this series. Some people eat according to very clearly defined rules. |
| 1:05.0 | From fashionable clean eaters to professional athletes. |
| 1:10.0 | And to followers of ancient religions. |
| 1:15.0 | Picture it. |
| 1:16.0 | Picture it, a large house in Hendon, North London, an open plan ground floor dotted with |
| 1:30.2 | beautiful sofas, underfoot Indian carpets. with a |
| 1:35.0 | kitchen looking at a kitchen overlooking a garden so huge it's easy to forget you're in a city. |
| 1:41.0 | A lunchtime gathering of three generations, mostly in Indian dress, and in the |
| 1:47.6 | centre two special guests, distinctively dressed in floor-length white robes, |
| 1:55.0 | two nuns who follow the ancient Jane religion. |
| 1:59.0 | In India, Jane monks and nuns go from door to door with begging bowls. |
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