Die Menschheit sollte doch zumindest aus den invasiven Arten gelernt haben, die sich durch den Menschen ausbreiten und die Ökosysteme bedrohen, statt neue, potentiell nicht mehr umkehrbare Veränderungen in die Natur einzubringen! Food for Life is a thought provoking book on all aspects of our eating lives from nutrition to environmental consequences of our choices. He also talked about the food industry, the environmental impact of producing food, the history of a particular food and so on. Eating just one extra red meat serving per day increased globally the risk of death by 13% for red meat and 20% for processed meats. Food For Life’ suggests that eating minimally processed plant-based foods is the best for our health.

It seems as though everything that might be good for me comes with horrible environmental consequences or is wildly expensive. Practical tips: Each chapter concludes with bullet-pointed tips, offering concise and practical advice for readers. Investigating everything from environmental impact and food fraud to allergies, ultra-processed food and deceptive labelling, Spector also shows us the many wondrous and surprising properties of everyday foods, which scientists are only just beginning to understand. Tim Spector has pioneered a new approach to nutrition, encouraging us to forget misleading calorie counts and nutritional breakdowns.

Anyway, the book is quite clearly structured and to summarize the sheer amount of information he puts in, he includes 5 bullet points at the end of each chapter that reiterate the key points.

Since then I’ve read one of his books, watched his video podcasts, read his columns and have been duly impressed. But the issue I have is some people might treat this as gospel (its in a book and if it works for him it must work for me!Applicability of cancellation rights: Legal rights of cancellation under the Distance Selling Regulations available for UK or EU consumers do not apply to certain products and services. A couple of essential takeaways were (1) we need to be careful about making generalisations about food and the effect of what you consume will be very specific to each individual, and (2) that we should be cautious of the claims made about the foods we consume without any supporting evidence. Food for Life’ by Tim Spector offers a refreshing and informative perspective on nutrition and its relationship with our health and the environment.