The Food Doctor: "Extra Protein Is Making You Fatter!" The 6 Food Lies Everyone Still Believes! (Brand NEW Food Science) - Tim Spector

Coffee is good for you, but orange juice is bad for you, and supposedly ‘healthy’ food isn’t healthy. The food doctor is here to set the record straight on the perfect diet.

In this new episode Steven sits down again with the world-renowned nutritional expert, Dr Tim Spector OBE.

Dr Spector is Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at King’s College London, and is the director of the Twins UK study. He is also co-founder of the in-depth nutritional analysis company, Zoe. He is the author of the bestselling books, ‘Food for Life’ , ‘The Diet Myth’, and ‘Spoon Fed’.

In this conversation Tim and Steven discuss topics, such as:

• Why he started talking in public about food
• His initial research focused on genes and obesity
• Starting to think about his own mortality
• The benefits of improving diet and gut health
• The diseases linked to poor nutrition
• How food impacts mood and energy
• Obesity only being a small side effect of poor diet
• The impact a poor diet can have in your future
• The importance of the speed and when you eat
• The impact of the menopause of the gut microbiome
• Why quality of food is more important than quantity
• Foods impact on fertility and libido
• Why supplements like protein are not necessary
• What is fibre
• How 95% people are not eating enough fibre
• Tim’s health hacks
• The importance of a healthy microbiome
• The benefits of fermented food
• Why different countries have better gut microbiomes
• The negative impacts of Ultra Processed Foods
• Why unhealthy snacking can impact a healthy diet
• The worst time for snacking
• How there is a snack epidemic and the need to change it
• Why healthy food doesn’t have health labels
• Perfect food habits
• The need to follow the 80/20 principle around diet
• Why coffee is good for you and improves your health
• How coffee is better for you than orange juice
• What diet advice has he changed his mind on
• Why drinking lots of water is not necessary
• Tim’s daily food routine
• Why certain fruits are better for you than others
• How there needs to be more nuisance to diet advice
• Why the carnivore diet is wrong
• Is artificial sweetener worse than sugar
• The truth about weight loss and need for sustainability
• His thoughts on Ozempic
• The need to stop thinking about calories and focus on food quality
• The benefits and negatives of not drinking alcohol
• The link between sleep and the microbiome
• His views on fasting

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