The Diet Myth
by Professor Tim Spector · first published 2016
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I can highly recommend "The diet myth" by Prof. Tim Spector, who does a good job in explaining why there are so many myths about nutrition, food, digestion etc: http://tim-spector.co.uk/
on “There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast” ↗There's a great book about this called "The Diet Myth" by Tim Specter. IIRC he's a Professor of Genetics and specialized in twin studies and sort of stumbled into researching gut bacteria because he was fascinated by identical twins were one was obese and…
on “Who’s at risk for obsessive healthy eating? Toronto research sheds light” ↗You might find Tim Specter’s “The Diet Myth” interesting. He’s a geneticist specializing in twin studies who sort of stumbled into the role of the microbiome in obesity. It’s been a while since I’ve read it but IIRC he points to pasteurizing as…
on “A Chemical Hunger: Mysteries” ↗…research in this area. [6] [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15054345 [2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11753586 [3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24527563 [4] http://www.amazon.com/The-Diet-Myth-Science-Behind/dp/029760... [5] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141106132204.ht... [6] http://www.wired.com/2014/08/what-makes-us-fat/
on “Skipping breakfast might help you lose weight” ↗…lots of different vegetables, nuts, pulses etc, and cutting down/out highly processed foods. Variety seems to be the spice of life, quite literally. I've just finished reading Prof. Tim Spector's "The Diet Myth". The book's title is a little hyperbolic, but it works through all the major food groups and how we eat and talks about both the historic research and diet fads of the past (like Ansel Keys research…
on “Gut microbe linked to depression in large health study” ↗Tim Spector's book The Diet Myth: The Real Science Behind What We Eat has a chapter on B12 deficiency in vegetarians. He anecdotally found using himself as a trial that he couldn't retain B12 in blood level tests while on his usual vegetarian…
on “Vitamin B6 and B12 Supplements Appear to Cause Cancer in Men” ↗An interesting book was this geneticist's book 'The Diet Myth' http://www.tim-spector.co.uk/ which is a critical look at nutrition myths such as fish oil supplements though it has low signal to noise ratio, way too many personal stories. Maybe look at university…
on “Ask HN: What are the best books on health and diet tailored towards students?” ↗Gut microbes are only recently being studied as a potential weight gain cause, too. People having the exact same lifestyle and diet may have very different results.[1] [1]: The Diet Myth from Dr Tim Spector
on “Japan sets record of nearly 100k people aged over 100” ↗…"real story" when "everyone else" is lying, so I looked up the author: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Campos > Campos is perhaps best known for his 2004 book The Obesity Myth (later published as The Diet Myth) which reviews medical research on the association between higher body mass and health. Campos's contentions that obesity is healthy were praised by some sociologists and critical theorists, and overwhelmingly…
on “The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much” ↗I've read a few books on nutrition that are not in the same "ideological" agenda at all (e.g. How Not To Die, Why Proteins Don't Count). The book I'm going to read next is called The Diet Myth. I wonder if some people here read it and could share their opinions. It's mostly because I'm physically active and would like to understand more how the body works (including nutritionally). But, the…
on “Tell HN: You owe it to yourself to understand nutrition” ↗