In this series on health, I will be reading Tim Spector’s book, “Spoon-Fed,” with my family, and will update you on what we have learned.
Spector wrote that research on food is hard and not enough money is given to test one food or diet against another in humans. This means that most information we hear about the good or bad things about food comes from small studies or studies done on animals that aren’t always the same as humans.Â
Some studies are also paid for by food companies and aren’t always true. Bigger studies that follow many people over a long time give us more information, but they are not always accurate because people don’t always tell the truth about what they eat.
New technology like smartphones can help us get more accurate information. Even when looking at many possible links between food and diseases, it is easy to find fake links. Nutrition studies are harder to do well than drug studies. Sometimes, when studies are done on foods, the results are not always correct…