The authors believe that the human body ideally requires constant diversity in food types to be its healthiest. The way to maximise this was through adding up the number of different plants some one at in a week, coming up with this magic total of 30. But i feel like our ancestors and many animals only found or eat a small group of things due to limited availability. What are your thoughts, tim? Are we awe being unrealistic and hiping the idea of diversity in diet? It's a great question, and i think i would have answered differently before we started doing studies directly looking at our indicator of got health. We've got to re educate our kids with some a very strong food culture
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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