Meet Camilla Honeyleaf, who runs the ‘Sugar is Poison’ YouTube channel that, she’ll proudly tell you, ‘has given thousands of people the eating disorder they so badly need’. An entrepreneur and an activist, Camilla has a calling: to bring health to the masses, or at least the massive. She won’t rest until friends and strangers alike discover the joys of a cupcake made entirely from avocado, burnt quinoa husks and a semi-organic sweetener that has definitely not caused tumours in laboratory rats. 

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Healthy living, she says, is not an option but a calling. She is fond of a pithy bon mot (‘They’re like sentences trimmed of fat!’), including ‘Life began when I became vegan’ and ‘Treat your colon like your closest friend.’ She lives by the latter dictum in particular, and has been named Customer of the Month at her local high-colonic clinic three years on the trot.  

Camilla’s latest venture, a beetroot smoothie purportedly made from an ancient Roman recipe beloved by the Caesars, claims to boost both gut health and feminine hygiene. (Slogan: ‘Veggie vaggy meat-free!’) She is in talks to supply the smoothie to women’s prisons, a project she views as deeply charitable. Jail, she explains, is........

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