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

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If you just want the bullet point, it turns out that we are better off nutritionally, financially and environmentally to drink tap water. Different people have different sensitivity to salt, sugar, fat, different gut bacteria compositions (microbiomes).

This is clearly spurious: pregnant women may well want to eliminate their likelihood of ingesting listeria by cutting out cheese but are unlikely to be able to cease driving their cars entirely. In general, I liked it, though I would: the basic principles are "ignore fads and alarmism, don't trust marketing, don't bother with supplements or fake-healthy food, have a varied diet with a lot of plants, be moderate with the treats". One of the great points about this book is the author's willingness to

Food is our greatest ally for good health, but the question of what to eat has never seemed so complicated. Increasing energy expenditure through exercise is not very significant, as you would only be affecting about 10% of your daily energy expenditure (the majority (~>60%) is basal metabolic load which doesn't change too much). He is the author of several books for the scientific and public communities and presents regularly in the media. Dit boek is een tegengif tegen de sprookjes over voeding die we ingelepeld hebben gekregen en waardoor we alsmaar ongezonder en ongeruster zijn geworden. Switching to bottled water confers no health benefits; there are far more chemicals and potentially harmful substances in the plastic packaging of bottled water.

A testing kit consisting of three packets of standardised muffins (to test your biological responses and challenge your metabolism with high doses of fat and sugar), a continuous glucose monitor, plus stool and blood sampling kits; the idea is to test how people respond to various foods over a two-week period, and provide them with personalised scores for thousands of foods, and nutrition coaching, based on these results. It was shocking to find out how little we really know about nutrition and how many things I thought I knew (e.Question the science (oftentimes its sponsored by 'interested parties'), the labels, and especially the marketing. 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’s that diversity of gut microbes that gives you a diversity of chemicals and, we believe, a healthier immune system and a better metabolism,” Spector says. Moving away from misleading notions of calories or nutritional breakdowns, Food for Life empowers us to make our own food choices based on a deeper understanding of the true benefits and harms that come from our daily transactions with the foods around us.

That said, it would serve as a good introduction for someone new to the subject as it is concise and accessible. Not sure who wouldn't find at least something here interesting - we all eat, most like a coffee or a glass of something, and climate change is coming for all of us. What I would not be surprised to see in ten or twenty years time, however, is that the gut microbiome focus of the author - and crucially attempts to commercialise it as a diet or wellbeing tool - is just another overly simplistic attempt to profit from confused consumers seeking answers.I stopped reading at the chapter which claims that food intolerances have been fabricated by the media and the only allergies which should be taken seriously are those which result in anaphylactic shock. Unless you've tried cutting it (where it = meat /milk /nuts / relatives' cooking) out and you feel better.