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Spoon-Fed
- Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Food Is Wrong
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 8 hrs
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We are all bombarded with advice about what we should and shouldn’t eat, and new scientific discoveries are announced every day. Yet the more we are told about nutrition, the less we seem to understand.
Through his pioneering scientific research, Tim Spector has been shocked to discover how little good evidence there is for many of our most deep-rooted ideas about food. In a series of short, myth-busting chapters, Spoon-Fed reveals why almost everything we’ve been told about food is wrong. Spector explores the scandalous lack of good science behind many medical and government food recommendations, and how the food industry holds sway over these policies and our choices.
Spoon-Fed is a groundbreaking book that forces us to question every diet plan, official recommendation, miracle cure or food label we encounter, and encourages us to rethink our whole relationship with food.
Diet may be the most important medicine we all possess. We urgently need to learn how best to use.
Critic reviews
"The nutrition revolution is well underway and Tim Spector is one of the visionaries leading the way. His writing is illuminating and so incredibly timely." (Yotam Ottolenghi)
"Will actually help you decide what to add to your next grocery shop... This is one of the clearest and most accessible short nutrition books I have read: refreshingly open-minded, deeply informative and free of faddish diet rules." (Bee Wilson)
"Dispelling decades of misinformation...Spoon-Fed is a fascinating read." (Tony Turnbull)
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- Linda Wild
- 03-12-20
Educational
Extremely interesting and makes you reconsider everything you have ever learned about food. Each chapter can be picked out and read alone.
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- Trucker Jay
- 12-09-21
It challenges what we thought was known about food
Written by a scientist in layman’s terms.
This book keeps you listening, it is open and honest.
I have brought paperbacks of this for a few people I know.
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- Allan Paterson
- 27-03-21
Significant Diet Guide
This is superb, probably the best diet guide you will ever read along with "The Diet Myth" by the same author.
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- Victoria
- 04-02-21
Great listen and very informative
Great listen & very interesting. Highly recommend this book. Lots of habits I will change in my diet because of this book.
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- Simon
- 27-09-22
Spectacular
Highly recommended!! A different way of looking at things! A must!!!
Thanks TS respect Si
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-11-21
Excellent and informative
Life changing, huge respect for Tim Spector and all his research explained in a comprehensible manner.
Definitely changed my eating habits and mindset. Thank you.
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- rubyplum
- 22-01-22
Life changing stuff
Fascinating, exhaustively researched, compelling. I listened to this after hearing Tim Spector on A Life Scientific and now I'm hooked! His twin studies and the Zoe app for gut health, soon to be launched 🤞in the UK, are potentially life-changing.
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- Mrs A Robinson
- 12-01-21
Must read for those who care about their health and our planet
Despite having taken keen interest in healthy living and environmental issues in recent years, I felt much enlightened by this book and will further change my shopping and eating habits. I really believe that everyone should read it as it’s also about each one of us taking responsibility for not unnecessarily burdening our health system and eco system. It’s very well read and easy to follow, highly recommend.
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- 30-11-20
Voice of reason, at last.
Fascinating and factual. Will shake your faith in Government, medical professionals, food industry ‘advisors’ and the media.
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- Alice C.
- 16-09-22
Absolutely brilliant
I am so shocked at the state we are in nutritionally speaking. It’s terrifying. Everyone should know about this. Everyone should read this.
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