article_snippet: — recent memoir that food is fun, and that it is ridiculous and sad to vomit or starve to stay stick-thin .
article_snippet: I am a champion eater.
article_snippet: Food is fun, 68-year-old Bergen believes, and it is ridiculous and sad that 68-year-old Bergen contemporaries either starve or vomit in secret to stay stick-thin.
article_snippet: There are times — post-pregnancy, doing double-duty as a working mum or just imprisoned by sedentary work and depression —
article_snippet: That is quite different, though, from the neurotic, bulimic daily anxiety of struggling to be unnaturally thin, too skinny for your natural metabolism.
article_snippet: Others enjoy engaging in such ferocious sports that Others rarely put on an ounce.
article_snippet: But you can’t go cold-turkey on food, so what you need is a cheerful relationship with it and your body.
article_snippet: And if, as life goes on, some of nature’s bounty settles as padding on your healthy active body, so what?
highlights_snippet: Here, Libby Purves offers Libby Purves more balanced view towards eating .