Food: A User's Guide

ISBN-10: 1787330494
ISBN-13: 9781787330498
Series: Food
Language: English
Published: 2022-10-27
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Author: Tim Spector

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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 health Food for your microbes Food as medicine Food for mental health Food for immunity Food for the planet Food for life Food is our greatest ally for good health, but the question of what to eat has never seemed so complicated. Tim Spector has pioneered a science-based approach to nutrition, encouraging us to forget misleading notions of calorie counts or nutritional breakdowns. In Food for Life he draws on over a decade of cutting-edge scientific research, along with his own personal insights, to deliver a new and comprehensive guide to what we should all know about food today. Taking a wide-angle lens on everything from environmental impact and food fraud to allergies and deceptive labelling, Spector also shows us the many wondrous and surprising properties of everyday foods, which scientists are only just beginning to understand. Empowering, practical, wide-ranging and filled with intriguing insights, Food for Life is nothing less than a new approach to how to eat - for our health and the health of the planet.

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Other editions

Food: What to Eat and Why It Matters
- 2022-10-15
- 304 pages
- Paperback
- HarperOne
Food: Nutrition, Packaging, Waste and Safety
- 2020-05-29
- 265 pages
- Paperback
- Nova Snova
Food
- 2020-04-20
- 320 pages
- Ebook
- John Wiley & Sons
Food: A Can-You-Find-It Book
- 2020
- 18 pages
- Paperback
- Pebble

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