Work out what works

Almost everything we have been told about food is wrong, according to Tim Spector. A professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London, he has done a deep-dive into the research and produced a myth-busting book on the subject.

Heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day? That the best diet is low-fat? Or carbohydrate-free? That meat is bad? Vegan is better? Spector’s book, Spoon Fed, takes a well-informed swipe at all the misleading half-truths and barefaced lies about food.

There is no perfect way of eating for all of us,