{"id":2028,"date":"2020-10-06T14:37:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T13:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=2028"},"modified":"2020-10-06T14:37:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T13:37:32","slug":"review-spoon-fed-why-almost-everything-weve-been-told-about-food-is-wrong-by-tim-spector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-spoon-fed-why-almost-everything-weve-been-told-about-food-is-wrong-by-tim-spector\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Spoon-Fed: Why Almost Everything We&#8217;ve Been Told About Food is Wrong, by Tim Spector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.  <em>Myth.<\/em>  Calories accurately measure how fattening a food is.  <em>Myth.<\/em>  All processed food is bad for us.  <em>Myth.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so on.  Tim Spector has identified more than 20 &#8216;myths&#8217; about food and this book is his attempt to set things right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of the &#8216;myths&#8217; are familiar territory for me and for many of you.  (For example, &#8216;all meat is bad for us&#8217;).  One can read those chapters with a self-knowing grin, because we knew that all along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The more challenging chapters are the ones where I&#8217;m not sure that Spector gets it entirely right &#8212; for example, he&#8217;s very skeptical about exercise as a way to lose weight.  I think many of us who have lost weight know that it&#8217;s a combination of better eating and moving more than seems to do the trick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He&#8217;s also completely dismissive of food supplements, such as multi-vitamins.  Again, as someone who&#8217;s been taking these for many years, I&#8217;m not sure I agree with his arguments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reading those chapters was more challenging, which I guess is the whole point of a book like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, this is an interesting, evidence-based book that deserves a wide readership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Myth. Calories accurately measure how fattening a food is. Myth. All processed food is bad for us. Myth. And so on. Tim Spector has identified more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2030,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions\/2030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}