From the bestselling author of Spoon-Fed and The Diet Myth , a comprehensive guide to the new science of nutrition, drawing on Tim Spector's cutting-edge research.
Food for Life by Author Tim Spector presents a groundbreaking approach to personalized nutrition, providing readers with a practical and science-based guide to eating for optimal health and well-being based on their unique gut microbiome.
From the bestselling author of Spoon-Fed and The Diet Myth , a comprehensive guide to the new science of nutrition, drawing on Tim Spector's cutting-edge research.
Food for Life by Author Tim Spector presents a groundbreaking approach to personalized nutrition, providing readers with a practical and science-based guide to eating for optimal health and well-being based on their unique gut microbiome.
From the bestselling author of Spoon-Fed and The Diet Myth, a comprehensive guide to the new science of nutrition, drawing on Tim Spector's cutting-edge research.Food is our greatest ally for good health, but the question of what to eat has never seemed so complicated. In his new book, Tim Spector creates a unique, thorough, evidence-based guide to the real science of eating. 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.Combining cutting-edge research with a personal insights, and taking a wide angle lens on everything from environmental impact and food fraud to allergies and deceptive labelling, Spector takes a deep dive into each food type. Food for Life also includes easy-to-implement action points and useful tables as practical tools in our everyday food decisions, presented in a novel and comprehensive format. 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.
“The nutrition revolution is well underway and Tim Spector is one of the visionaries leading the way. His writing is illuminating and so incredibly timely.”
Tim Spector makes healthy eating exhilarating, empowering and achievable. -- Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
A brilliant deep-dive into how food affects our wellbeing – and more importantly, what we can do about it. Enlightening and empowering -- Liz Earle
Spector writes as a food lover... Every person's ideal diet is different, and should be based on sensible choices from a position of knowledge. Food for Life is a feast of that knowledge... A valuable reference book to keep on a kitchen shelf. Guardian
The nutrition revolution is well underway and Tim Spector is one of the visionaries leading the way. His writing is illuminating and so incredibly timely. -- Yotam Ottolenghi - praise for SPOON-FED
[A] weighty and detailed guide to modern living... [Spector] explains how to boost your microbiome and tailor your diet. Sunday Times, Books of the Year
Tim Spector, MD, is Professor of Epidemiology at
King’s College London. He is the bestselling
author of The Diet Myth, Spoon-Fed and Food for Life and scientific co-founder of ZOE, the nutrition science company. With a focus on cutting-edge science and honoured with an OBE for his impactful work in fighting Covid-19, Tim stands at the forefront of his field. The original pioneer of microbiome research, he is among the top 100 most cited scientists in the world.
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