Eating for energy after sixty
The original site said a sixty-year-old should still feel energised. Appetite, protein, teeth, company and the slow redesign of the evening meal.
Helen Cho · 13 May 2026
The third key · Key 03
Food and Absorption
Photograph: Dietmar Rabich / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0. See image credits.
The third key was never a diet. It was a reminder that chips and chocolate are not a breakfast, that absorption is not appetite, and that it is better to love the food you eat than to eat the food you love. We write from that sentence.
Afternoon crashes, lunch timing and the 3pm slump
The slump is not always a character defect. It is often lunch, light, heat and a meeting that should have been a walk.
Tom Reilly · 28 April 2026
Love the food you eat
The old site said it is better to love the food you eat than to eat the food you love. That is not a slogan. It is an argument against punitive dieting.
Mara Ellison · 9 April 2026
The Australian gut, fibre and what a probiotic can and cannot do
Sauerkraut at the Saturday market is not a personality. Fibre, fermented food and the long, unfashionable work of a working gut.
Priya Nadesan · 25 March 2026
Absorption over appetite
The original Energy Field line still holds: it is not only what you eat, it is what the body can use. A quieter way to look at breakfast.
James Whitaker · 25 February 2026