Common beliefs related to food have been surrounding us since childhood: who hasn’t heard that you need to drink milk in order to grow up faster, that fish will help you become smart, porridge will help you be alert and energetic, and meat and eggs will help you become strong and healthy? Tips on what to eat and what not to eat are pouring in like a cornucopia.

Tim Spector conducted an unprecedented study, as a result of which he realized how unfounded most of the ideas deeply rooted in our minds about food . In each chapter of his book, he explains why almost everything we have been told about food is not true.

After reading his book, you can completely rethink your attitude to food and learn how to form your own individual diet based on scientific recommendations.

Published in Russian for the first time.