Calorie counting, a disaster?
For some books, the title tells you everything. How about: Spoon-Fed: Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Food is Wrong? I’ve just finished this disorientating book by Tim Spector, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at Kings College, London. You may well remember him from the Zoe app during the pandemic and his weekly YouTube updates. He has credibility. Basically, he sets out to show that nearly all our basic assumptions about food are wrong – and sometimes even dan