Even subtle differences in types of wheat, let alone different grains, impact our health. The more diverse the number of species are, the healthier we are. And so if you can people to eat a much wider variety of grains, which is a really great source of protein and fibre, then they will produce healthiergot microbes. This will in turn help their immune systems, which, you know, will help them prevent them dying of covid.
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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