Food for Life

Author Tim Spector
Narrator Leighton Pugh
Publisher Random House
Publish Date 27 October 2022
Run Time 17 hours and 54 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries, Conservation of the environment, Cookery for specific diets and conditions, Coping with allergies, including food allergies, Cultural studies: food and society, Diets and dieting, nutrition, Family and health, Popular science, Science: general issues, Society and Social Sciences, The environment.

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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

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Critics Review

Tim Spector makes healthy eating exhilarating, empowering and achievable.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

A brilliant deep-dive into how food affects our wellbeing – and more importantly, what we can do about it. Enlightening and empowering

Liz Earle

Spector writes as a food lover… Every person’s ideal diet is different, and should be based on sensible choices from a position of knowledge. Food for Life is a feast of that knowledge… A valuable reference book to keep on a kitchen shelf.

Guardian

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 - praise for SPOON-FED

[A] weighty and detailed guide to modern living… [Spector] explains how to boost your microbiome and tailor your diet.

Sunday Times, *Books of the Year*

No fads, no nonsense, just practical, science-based advice on how to eat well.

Daily Mail, *Books of the Year*

Food for Life is a fascinating tour d’horizon, deftly drawing on recent research… Well written [and] informative.

Literary Review

Tim Spector has been exploding the myths around food and health for years… Here he continues the demolition job in a rigorously academic book that welcomes the layperson with open arms.

The Times, *Books of the Year*

Tim’s book is a revelation. With his years of experience and engaging writing, he navigates the fascinating and complicated relationship between food and health. A must-read for anyone seeking a respected and trustworthy guide through the murky world of nutrition

Dr Rupy

A life-changing book

Davina McCall

User Reviews

Book 5.0

Narration 5.0

5.0

A thorough overview of the evidence in nutrition world, delving into different groups of foods and what the trends vs evidence is for or against them. Useful overview and as with Tim Spector, always relates back to the gut microbiota.

elih 04/10/2023

5.0

Tdk 06/07/2023

5.0

There is quote a lot to take in. Its a good guide to your general diet and goes into specific food groups and how to approach them. There where a couple of points where he stretched the science a bit but for the most part it seemed to be well referenced.

choffee 01/07/2023

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