Food companies did an amazingly good job in creating cheap r food. But i think a lot of it was bad science and not realizing that we didn't really understand as much as we did. We're massively simp fying every problem in order either to get a publication or, you know, a book on the subject,. The secama war caused more nutritional problems than the actual war itself. And from that dire situation where there were scaletal peoplend and people dying of malnutrition and having stunted growth, very rapidly, evolved into this state with plenty of calories.
Food is the best medicine, believes genetics expert Tim Spector, but most of the dietary advice that we are given is wrong, he claims. In his latest bestselling book, Spoon-Fed: Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Food Is Wrong, he argues that the most dangerous myth of all about food is the assumption that we all respond to the same foods in the same way and the food industry's oversimplified approach to diet. For this discussion, Tim is joined by Dan Saladino, the award-winning food writer and broadcaster. Dan's new book, Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them, is a love letter to the world’s great food traditions and a wake-up call to protect the planet’s genetic biodiversity.
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