Hello and welcome to the Get Your Globe Up podcast. I'm joined today by one of the world

leading scientists of food and nutrition, microbe expert, Professor Tim Specter, author of

Spoonfed and the Diet Myth and founder of Twins UK Registry and the COVID Symptoms Study

app. On today's episode, Tim shares his wisdom on all

things diet and nutrition, how we can separate fat from fiction when it comes to healthy eating

and what so many of us have been getting wrong. Honestly, it was such an amazing chat. I learned

so much from him and I just think he has such sound sensible and easy to implement advice.

I'm so excited to share today's episode with you. Let's bring on the amazing professor, Tim Specter.

Welcome Tim to the podcast. Thank you. Looking forward to it. I'm really excited to have you on.

I'm a big fan, so I can't wait to start our conversation.

It seems like we've never been more health conscious at the moment,

and yet obesity continues to be a huge issue.

What are we getting wrong?

Pretty much everything, really.

I think everyone is conscious of food in a certain way, following cookery programs on TV.

And we're being told what to eat all the time by the government and by health food shops

and the internet, it's clearly not

working because we're all getting fatter and getting more diabetes and less healthy. So I think

we need to have a hard look at the advice we've been given. And really a lot of these boils down

to our misconceptions about food and diet

that are really quite hardwired in us. And so unless we change those real dogmas,

it's going to be very hard for us to realistically get healthier as a nation. And in the UK, we're the most obese nation in

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