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Tim
Spector
All photography by Issy Croker
Tim Spector has pioneered a new approach to nutrition, encouraging us to forget misleading calorie counts and nutritional breakdowns. In Food for Life he draws on over a decade of cutting-edge scientific research, along with his own personal insights, to deliver a new and comprehensive approach to what we should all know about food today. In this extract from the new book, Tim talks about how science has changed his cooking habits.
Food for me is the perfect combination of science and pleasure; the more I learn, the better it tastes. When you discover the amazing complexity of what’s going on in your body every single time you take a bite – and all the trillions of microorganisms that depend on what you eat – it’s quite humbling. Your food choices are simply the most important ones you can make for your overall health and happiness.
While I can tap into this knowledge now, it’s still only relatively recently that we’ve been able to connect the dots between the science of food, the art of cooking and their interactions with our health. With this cookbook, I want to share my knowledge with you and show you how simple it can be to eat for both pleasure and health. The recipes build from the six key principles for eating well that I set out in my book Food for Life. In those pages, I examined the latest science and made the case for changing the way we eat in theory; this book is all about turning that theory into practice. Working with brilliant chefs and nutritionists from ZOE, the science and nutrition company that I co-founded, we’ve created recipes that will help you adopt and live these six principles in your own life to help you make better food choices every day, whatever your starting point.
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'The recipes build from the six key principles for eating well that I set out in my book Food for Life. In those pages, I examined the latest science and made the case for changing the way we eat in theory; this book is all about turning that theory into practice.'
My early attempts at changing my cooking habits brought small triumphs, big failures and new rituals. I may be an expert in the clinic, but I was an amateur in the kitchen. In changing my habits, I’ve discovered the pleasure of eating in accordance with the latest science, and it has helped me resolve constipation, have more energy, improve my mood and concentration, sleep better, enjoy food more, and reduce my belt size after years of meal-deal lunches.
To help me translate the scientific findings and six principles of Food for Life, I’ve worked with fantastic recipe developers and ZOE nutritionists, including Georgia Tyler and Dr Federica Amati, to create a set of delicious, achievable recipes that bring the latest science into your life and kitchen every day. This is the book I wish I’d had a decade ago. Using it as a guide, with its tips and inspiration, I could have become smarter in the kitchen and healthier a lot quicker. I hope that’s what it does for you.
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