Might Gwyneth Paltrow have been right all along? While Goop, her £200-million lifestyle empire, has ended up on the wrong end of a gazillion jokes about the insane shit on which bored, pampered, rich women will spend money — jade eggs? Spirulina popcorn? Candles that smell like her vagina? — much of the tactics and tweaks and healing hacks Paltrow endorsed to haute ridicule a few years ago are now absolutely part of the mainstream. Think about it: Gwyneth was plugging intermittent fasting, refined sugar evasion, a good gut microbiome and reducing inflammation years before Tim Spector, the professor of genetic epidemiology who has us all signed up to his Zoe programme, slapping glucose monitors on our upper arms and fermenting our own kimchi.
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Gwyneth Paltrow: “I used to be more like a Camel Lights and Diet Coke kind of girl. It worked for me, for a long time”
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The Sunday Times
