Spoon-Fed: Why almost everything we’ve been told about food is wrong

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We are all bombarded with advice about what we should and shouldn't eat, and new scientific discoveries are announced every day. De drie boosdoeners zijn: slechte wetenschap, verkeerde interpretatie van onderzoeksresultaten en de voedingsindustrie.

My breakfast now is a mixture of kefir and full-fat yoghurt with some berries and mixed nuts and seeds on top, plus one or two big cups of black coffee. to the scandalous lack of good science behind many medical and government food recommendations, and how the food industry holds sway over these policies and our choices.it is eloquent and engaging written, free from any specialist jargon, and divided into digestible bite-sized chapters that focus on one issue at a time, i. Although he does eat breakfast himself, he notes that evidence is gathering for the benefits of time-restricted eating, where people skip breakfast and limit the time frame of their meals to six or eight hours in the day. The trouble is, although identical twins have many similarities, they can often be quite different – despite sharing the same genes. This is important, Spector explains, because chronic inflammation may increase the risk of various diseases, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease and certain cancers. This very light touch on the evidence allows an easier read, and the author generally explains (sometimes repeatedly) what our “take-aways” (lol) should be.

Ultimately, this book encourages us to fall in love again with food and celebrate its many wondrous properties, which science is still only just beginning to understand. This involves navigating all the bullshit that the food industry throw at us with their insidious and deceptive marketing strategies, such as the push to advance exercise as a solution to poor health, rather than poor diet. Coeliac disease is an allergy to gluten, an autoimmune disease where your own immune system attacks your tissues when you eat gluten, less than 1% of the population have a medical diagnosis of coeliac disease.This book is Tim Spector's personal attempt to bring us all out of our own traditions and out-dated beliefs and into the clear light of dietary advice in the year 2020. Dit boek is een tegengif tegen de sprookjes over voeding die we ingelepeld hebben gekregen en waardoor we alsmaar ongezonder en ongeruster zijn geworden. Among scientists, there’s a growing consensus that depression may be linked to elevated levels of inflammation in at least a subset of patients; Spector argues that having the right gut microbes can counter this, because they secrete a range of chemicals that both keep inflammation in check, as well as altering our mood more directly.