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The Food Chain

Tweaks for 2026: How to eat better

The Food Chain

BBC

Arts, Society & Culture, Food

4.7545 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Ruth Alexander gathers the most useful, actionable nutrition advice from our episodes of 2025 to help set you up for 2026. Things like how to nourish your brain, keep an eye on portion sizes, and why it’s important to focus on fibre. Experts from around the world tell us about the small tweaks that can make a real difference to how we eat, think, and feel.

Producer: Izzy Greenfield Sound mixing: Hal Haines

(Photo: a person looks at a variety of foods, Credit: Getty Images)

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts.

0:05.6

Hello, I've just nipped in before your BBC podcast starts to tell you all about

0:09.4

You're Dead to Me. We're the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Also from the BBC

0:13.9

and presented by me, Greg Jenner. I should have told you that at the beginning. Sorry.

0:17.9

Anyway, like many other BBC podcasts, such as Desert Island Discs, Evil Genius, or In Our Time, your dead to me is available first on BBC Sounds,

0:26.3

a whole month earlier than anywhere else, in fact. So if you can't wait another day to hear

0:31.2

the very latest in history and loads of other good stuff, then listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:36.9

Hello and welcome to the food chain from the BBC World Service. I'm Ruth Alexander.

0:42.7

If you're rethinking your health this January, we might be able to help. In this programme,

0:48.4

we're gathering the most useful, actionable nutrition advice from our episodes of 2025

0:54.0

to help set you up for 2026. Things like

0:58.3

how to nourish your brain, keep an eye on portion sizes and why it's important to focus on fibre.

1:05.0

We're talking about the small tweaks that experts say can make a real difference to how we eat,

1:13.6

think and feel. Think of it as a practical guide to tiny changes with big potential. One of our most popular episodes last year asked a

1:22.3

simple question, should I eat breakfast? Listen to what our expert guests had to say. Professor Alexandra

1:30.0

Johnstone, a nutrition scientist based at the Rowett Institute at the University of Aberdeen in

1:35.2

Scotland. Marianella Herrera, an associate professor in public health nutrition at Central

1:40.6

University of Venezuela, and visiting lecturer at Framingham State University in the United

1:46.2

States, and Courtney Peterson, a researcher in intermittent fasting, an associate professor at the Harvard

1:53.1

T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the U.S. So we've had a lot of exciting research over the past 20 years,

2:00.5

and I'd say we learn the important

2:02.0

finding that not only what you eat and how much you eat, but when you eat matters.

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