The Complexity of Food

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Recent science has shown there's over 30,000 different chemicals in the food we eat. We've been dumbing it down for the last 50 years to try and sort of get a few health messages across which we believe were true. And so we're eating ingesting many more chemicals that we've never known in nature. Most of the chemicals you get on the back of a pack are just from the petrol industry.

Tim Spector is a Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at King’s College London, director of the Twins UK study, Scientific co-founder at ZOE, and one of the world’s leading researchers. He's also the author of Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well, his latest book focusing on nutrition and health. Tim trained originally in rheumatology and epidemiology.

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