Practical tips provided at the end of each chapter and a useful appendix of food tables enhance the book’s value as a reference guide.

A must-read for anyone who wants to make their body, mind and the world better places in which they reside. Calorie counting is just one of many food myths that Spector sets out to demolish in Spoon-Fed: they can give consumers a “false sense of security and precision” about food.The nutrition revolution is well underway and Tim Spector is one of the visionaries leading the way. Food for Life provides practical insights and a new approach on how to eat for our health and the health of the planet.

Food for Life’ by Tim Spector offers a refreshing and informative perspective on nutrition and its relationship with our health and the environment. He is co-founder of the personalised nutrition company ZOE and leads the world's biggest citizen science health project, the ZOE Health study.

Like the pharmaceutical industry, the vast multi-national food companies have influenced nutritionists with gifts and sponsorship. Food is our greatest ally for good health, but the question of what to eat in the age of ultra-processed food has never seemed so complicated. Excellently written study of the current state of food chains, global eating habits and the impact on our guts.

They’re apparently good friends and that’s hardly surprising given that their approach to their respective specialist fields is the same. Spector is a medic turned professor of epidemiology, though his writing is always clear and hits that balance between not over-complicating the science, nor using language aimed at beginners. Tim Spector is Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at Kings College, London and Director of the TwinsUK Registry, which is one of the worlds richest data collections on 11,000 twins. Tim Spector has pioneered a new approach to nutrition, encouraging us to forget misleading calorie counts and nutritional breakdowns.Yet he actually agrees that mortality is somewhat increased in processed meat eaters, though he makes no mention of the nitrites that are considered the problematic aspect of bacon. The second part looks at various foods, including meat, seafood, fruits, vegetables, fungi and mushrooms, nuts and seeds, and more, outlining what we know about their benefits or not. With his years of experience and engaging writing, he navigates the fascinating and complicated relationship between food and health. On a plus side we can manipulate the stem-cell meat to be healthier, by adding polyunsaturated fatty acids such as omega-3, for example, altering the culture medium to replicate the effects of grass, or lowering the fat content. He is in favour of vegetables – as diverse a range of them as possible – but does not rate vegan sausage rolls as any healthier than the meat equivalent.

Even if the numbers on the menu were accurate, they still do not reflect the ways in which humans obtain nutrients from food. About the Author: Tim Spector is a professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London and honorary consultant physician at Guy's and St Thomas' hospitals. Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you.

Tim Spector, an epidemiologist and co-founder of the ZOE nutrition study, wants to change the way people think about food.