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Food Intelligence
The Science of How Food Both Nourishes and Harms Us
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Nutrition isn't rocket science; it's harder. There are new diet fads, bold claims about superfoods, and articles promising the secrets to lasting weight-loss and longevity. The more 'expert' advice we hear about diet, the less clarity we have about what to eat. In Food Intelligence, award-winning...
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Nutrition isn't rocket science; it's harder.
There are new diet fads, bold claims about superfoods, and articles promising the secrets to lasting weight-loss and longevity. The more 'expert' advice we hear about diet, the less clarity we have about what to eat.
In Food Intelligence, award-winning health journalist Julia Belluz and internationally renowned nutrition and metabolism scientist Kevin Hall cut through the myths about nutrition to deliver the definitive book on food, diet, metabolism, and healthy eating.
Breaking food down into its constituent parts, they reveal the science behind how protein, fat, carbs, and vitamins impact our bodies. They shine a light on the wonders of metabolism and debunk the latest 'theories' about blood sugar trackers and ultra-processed foods. They reveal the ways that the world around us—our food environment—shapes our eating behaviours and the food choices we make every day. Diseases like obesity and type 2 diabetes are not a result of a failure of will power; they are consequences of food systems working as designed.
Humane and deeply reported, this journey into the science of what we eat will equip you with the food intelligence you need to better understand what's on your dinner plate, how it got there, and why you eat it.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781472282200
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 23 September 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Wildfire
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 41g
Pages: 352
About the Author
Kevin Hall, PhD (Author)
Kevin Hall, PhD, is an internationally recognised expert in human nutrition, metabolism, obesity, and neuroscience. Despite being a physicist by training, Dr. Hall has led groundbreaking clinical research investigating how our food environment shapes our diet and how our diet affects the physiology of our bodies and our brains. Dr. Hall has twice received the Director's Award from the US National Institutes of Health and has also received the E.V. McCullum Award from the American Society for Nutrition, the Lilly Scientific Achievement Award from The Obesity Society, and the Guyton Award for Excellence in Integrative Physiology from the American Physiological Society.Julia Belluz (Author) Julia Belluz is a journalist and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. She has reported extensively on medicine, nutrition, and global public health from Canada, the US, and Europe. Previously, Belluz was Vox's senior health correspondent in Washington, DC, and a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. A Canadian, she holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science and lives with her family in Paris, France.Also by Julia Belluz
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