The Pioneer
The frontier and an appetite for the unknown, goes first.
Tim Spector reads as The Pioneer because his leadership sits at the frontier where established science meets new territory. As a King's College London epidemiologist and ZOE co-founder, he moves ideas out of the academy and into ventures that test them in the world.
“I found this myself when I started doing my glucose levels. Even brown breads were all over the place. There are some breads that I can eat in small amounts that are still healthy, things like rye breads, and if it's sourdough, that also improves it. But I think in general we're eating far too much bread for most people.”
“Yes, they do and they but importantly they live much longer and have much less of our chronic diseases or they sort of delay those problems by at least ten years. So I think we need to learn from the populations that are doing it right. And this is a really easy.”
“That wakes me up and I like it, and it's also good for me, but I won't have anything else until eleven o'clock. I'll go down and I fix myself, my bowl of full fat yogurt, and I'd put my diversity jar sprinkled in there, and I'd see what else is in the fridge.”
“Nearly any grain is better than white rice. It's got more fiber, it's got more protein in it, it's got more nutrients in it, and rice is the most overrated food, I think, even more so than bread, because, yeah, people think it's healthier than, you know, having potatoes or pasta.”
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