Let them eat asparagus

Editor—Through the letterboxes of residents of East Fife recently dropped a booklet entitled Eating for Health published by the Health Education Board for Scotland.1 Tucked into the booklet was a letter from Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, minister of state at the Scottish Office, exhorting us all to read and digest the contents. The booklet gives advice about healthy eating—we should all eat more bread, cereals, fruit, and …