Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns, now picture you, zooming past

it all, light and breezy, ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic.

Make your train journey via vantewescoast.co.uk, a vantewescoast, feel good, travel.

You know, it's not really different to how we think about drugs or medicines, they're chemicals

and all the neurotransmitters in our brain which are chemicals, so everything's a chemical.

We've just dumbed it down to think of food as calories and saturated fat and not much

else.

The logic of that is that food is also medicine.

Absolutely yes, it's both poison and medicine.

It's make a futile resolution time again, often starting with food and drink.

Maybe it's no sugar for a year or less meat or no wine or fast a day a week or

eating nothing but lobster. But unless you understand a bit of the science of what you consume

and what it does for you, your action is likely to be pointless or worse.

But there is someone who can help you out here who knows things like most of our immune

cells are actually in our gut, talking to our gut microbes all the time.

You're listening to stories of our times and the times and the Sunday times, I'm David

Aronovich. Today, the new science of eating well.

In recent years, there's been a lot of talk about the health of our nation and most of it

has been pessimistic. We don't eat well. For example, obesity, according to a recent report

by the World Health Organization, has reached epidemic proportions. The public health cost

is catastrophic. And obesity is only one of our food related problems.

The tragedy is that so many of us eat and drink the wrong things when the right things

...