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Food for Life
- Your Guide to the New Science of Eating Well
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin.
Food is our greatest ally for good health, but the question of what to eat has never seemed so complicated. In his new book, Tim Spector creates a unique, thorough, evidence-based guide to the real science of eating. Moving away from misleading notions of calories or nutritional breakdowns, Food for Life empowers us to make our own food choices based on a deeper understanding of the true benefits and harms that come from our daily transactions with the foods around us.
Combining cutting-edge research with a personal insights, and taking a wide angle lens on everything from environmental impact and food fraud to allergies and deceptive labelling, Spector takes a deep dive into each food type. Food for Life also includes easy-to-implement action points and useful tables as practical tools in our everyday food decisions, presented in a novel and comprehensive format. Ultimately, this book encourages us to fall in love again with food and celebrate its many wondrous properties, which science is still only just beginning to understand.
Audio updated as of November 2022.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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- Brian Russell
- 24-07-23
Essential listening for us all
An book that you will dip into very often to remind yourself of the mass of information it contains as and when you need to. A book that I will listen to again and again I’m sure
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- 11-07-23
Fascinating
Learned some interesting stuff. Some great research. Would recommend to anyone who has interest in there health
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- alex blair
- 13-02-23
Fascinating insight into how food impacts our lives
Brilliant assessment of how food affects individuals based on real empirical evidence and research. Lots to think about. So much o I had to buy the book after listening to the audio version!
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- 26-01-23
Excellent summary of what we should all know about food
As a nutritionist I hear so much inaccurate theories from people about diets and food. I would recommend everyone to read this book
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- Willy Weasel
- 11-12-22
Essential food education for all.
Apprecition and a massive thank you Prof. Tim for your incredibly informative, and educational work. As others have said; ' A man on a mission.'
Not the common 'preachy' diet book.
An academic (science not fashion), no nonsence guide to food (and drink)
Could not recommend more for everyone to learn from.
For me, the audiobook is the best option allthough I also bought the hardback tome .
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- Lydia1
- 29-11-22
incredible every one should read this book
Extraordinary record of well researched information. Very interesting and informative. Children should be taught a simple version as it provides the well researched information in food, knocking out the hyped media stories that are so confusing, and explains where our food comes from and how to shop more sustainably. This is a book to listen to over and over there is so much to take in. I only skipped the chapters on meat suspecting as an almost vegetarian this would be a hard listen.
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- R. Harris
- 10-07-23
Great information, stilted narration
Great book and information if you can get past the odd pauses by the narrator
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- H. Marshall
- 04-08-23
Excellent
A comprehensive and mostly unbiased account of which foods are good for us and which not so good. Food science is not set in stone it is constantly being updated as new studies modify understanding from previous generations. As Tim Spector readily admits, much of the information given needs verification through expensive scientific studies.
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- Dr Fiona
- 08-11-22
Great book with some sloppy/lazy mistakes
A ground breaking & fantastically well written book. Unfortunately, on Audible, in the publishers’ rush to make it available, there are 3 fundamental & sloppy/lazy errors:
1. There are no chapter titles! Making it impossible to navigate effectively, jump to chapters of particular interest or relisten to especially relevant ones.
2. There are no references! Usually, a pdf of references would be included and I’m certain that they will be in the book. I have no idea why the publishers omitted them and I’m sure that Prof. Spector doesn’t realise that they have.
3. There’s no pdf of the recipes or methodologies mentioned in the book. I would love to try making my own sauerkraut …. I think it’s somewhere in the middle of chapter 12! But I need a visual reference not an auditory one. Very disappointing.
The narrator does a good job, but he’s not Tim, and we’ve become used to Tim’s reassuring voice throughout the Covid crisis. Again, very disappointing.
I would still thoroughly recommend the book. The content is phenomenal. I just wish that whoever had managed the Audible contract had done a better job.
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- Amazon Customer
- 18-03-23
An excellent book backed by science fact
A truly informative and factual book, with life changing information backed up by scientific research.
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