Understanding
food as medicine
Simple recipes, and what food does for your body.
What we have read
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Five hundred calories nobody chose
Twenty people, locked in a research ward, fed two diets matched down to the fibre. On one of them they ate 500 calories a day more without deciding to.
The one food change with a trial behind it
Stanford put 36 people on ten weeks of fermented food. Microbial diversity went up, and nineteen inflammatory proteins went down. This is what “food as medicine” looks like when it is real.
The dullest finding in nutrition is also the largest
A hundred and eighty-five studies, a hundred and thirty-five million person-years, and a dose-response curve that keeps going down. Nobody sells it, because nobody owns it.
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