Five stars for a well-researched book on debunking the myths perpetuated by the food industry, governments and medical health professionals.
Tim Spector tackles the myths surrounding the use of vitamins, salt reduction, calorie counting, drinking water safety, low fat diet, plus many others. Myths that have succeeded in making many people afraid of what they eat. In some cases that may well be a good thing – junk food is simply bad for us. Sugar, salt and fat-laced junk “foods”, with virtually no nutrition, are designed for one thing only – lining the pockets of food companies, while those of us who eat their fare fall ill, potentially developing serious health problems, including diabetes, obesity and many other related illnesses.
Tim returns to the microbiome, our second brain, noting the calories-in, calories-out myth ignores the widely differing ways humans digest everyday foods in our guts.
Tim Spector provides an overview of the inherent naivety of accepting health claims made by the food industry, with their financial lobbying of governments designed to prevent taxes being raised on junk “food”. He also covers pesticides used to spray the food we ingest, pointing to an increasing number of studies linking poisons to an increase in blood cancers. Those who eat organic foods have been demonstrated to have lower risks of cancer.
There will come a day when future generations look back at deliberate obfuscation by the food industry on nutrition and the determination to keep people in ignorance about food production and wonder why governments were complicit.
Tim Spector touches on the inadequacy of medical training when it comes to nutrition. GPs in our modern world inevitably face many patients with obesity and diabetic health issues, yet a disturbingly miniscule part of medical training focuses on dealing with nutritional and lifestyle advice.
Ultimately, Tim concludes with generic tips on eating healthy foods, especially a wide variety of vegetables, avoiding junk, and getting mad with the food industry and governments kowtowing to them. The best way for consumers to have their say is to vote with our wallets and not buy rubbish, to avoid plastic containers where possible – especially purchased water with its hidden microplastics, and if we’re politically minded we can also lobby our governments in protest against financial pressuring by greedy food companies.
If we need to look further for detailed information, Tim provides reams of suggested reading through articles, journals and books at the end of his overview.
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