Food companies have been masking the whole idea of quality of food by talking about how much fat is in there. In all these foods, there are hundreds of chemicals in each of them and we tend to fix eight on one particular ingredient. And it's this the idea that if we'v failed to relook at food quality, and i think this is something that comes out in both books, teaching people it's not about macronutrients, it's about the whole foodad.
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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