Since the 19 fifties and 19 sixties, driven by some very questionable science, we embrace some assumptions about what constitutes a healthy diet. The prime suspect has always been sugar when these epidemics are up. And i'm making the case in this book, and i describe it as a prosecution's argument that it should remain sugar for a lot of different reasons,. Even though ultimately the ex mental evidence is ambiguous.
To unpack the truth behind the often confusing information about the food we eat, in this archive discussion from 2017, Intelligence Squared brought together some of the world’s leading experts on the science of human nutrition and health. Joining our host Dr Xand van Tulleken to pick apart food truths and myths were GP and broadcaster Sarah Jarvis, computational biologist Eran Segal, Professor of genetic epidemiology Tim Spector, and award-winning science and health writer Gary Taubes.
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