Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well, by the #1 bestselling author of SPOON-FED

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These are urgent issues that matter not just for our health as individuals but for the future of the planet. His company, ZOE, launched an app which I and millions of others used to report daily on symptoms, vaccines, etc.

Tim Spector is a renowned Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at Kings College and Director of the TwinsUK Registry, a vast data collection from 11,000 twins. Reference material: The book includes an appendix of food tables, serving as a valuable reference for readers.Die Menschheit sollte doch zumindest aus den invasiven Arten gelernt haben, die sich durch den Menschen ausbreiten und die Ökosysteme bedrohen, statt neue, potentiell nicht mehr umkehrbare Veränderungen in die Natur einzubringen! Excellently written study of the current state of food chains, global eating habits and the impact on our guts. The nutrition revolution is well underway and Tim Spector is one of the visionaries leading the way .

I found it a bit of a slog to get through the book as he goes through every food and their vitamins and polyphenols, which doesn’t make for riveting reading. Tim Spector has pioneered a new approach to nutrition, encouraging us to forget misleading calorie counts and nutritional breakdowns.The book covers a wide range of topics, including the gut microbiome, food choices, and the impact of food on the planet. He also talked about the food industry, the environmental impact of producing food, the history of a particular food and so on. Since then I’ve read one of his books, watched his video podcasts, read his columns and have been duly impressed. Investigating everything from environmental impact and food fraud to allergies, ultra-processed food and deceptive labelling, Spector also shows us the many wondrous and surprising properties of everyday foods, which scientists are only just beginning to understand. But he’s sometimes frustratingly understated when it comes to the politics – and finances – of food.

Tim explains that due to the way we change our attitudes to food over the last few decades, we are no longer exposed to the very microbes that are an essential part of our physiology.This is just one example, but the key insight is ‘what is good for one, may be unsuitable or harmful to another. Tim Spector is Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at Kings College, London and Director of the TwinsUK Registry, which is one of the worlds richest data collections on 11,000 twins. Replacing sugar, salt, fat and gluten with weird and untested chemicals is usually pointless and probably dangerous, and the 1980s advice to change butter and cream for margarines and vegetable oils was “one of the biggest health scandals ever”. However, although briefly mentioned here and there, it doesn't account for the socioeconomic or racial aspect of food consumption, which was a bit of a shame.