Eat Smarter
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Eat Smarter

How to use food to improve our health

In Eat Smarter: Use the Power of Food to Reboot Your Metabolism, Upgrade Your Brain, and Transform Your Life, Shawn Stevenson takes the reader on a journey of discovery into the wonderful world of food, and analyses how it triggers many of the countless reactions in the human body that benefit our physical and mental wellbeing. His fun writing style manages to simplify the most complex and relevant concepts, making them easy for anyone to understand and entertaining to follow. 

Eat Smarter
Read in 13 min.
Listen in 16 min.
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Nutrition is actually an extremely simple concept; it is our relationship with food that is complicated

Food is one of the most valuable and multifaceted resources in the universe, but nutrition is actually a very straightforward concept. All throughout history, civilisations have been founded on food, as people settled where it was most abundant. What’s more, at some point in time, we have attempted to eat absolutely everything on the planet, with varying degrees of success.

There is a common misconception that the tastiest food is also the most harmful to our health, but there are actually many delicious foods that are extremely good for us. Food is so much more than our ‘fuel’ for survival, so if we hear anyone say, ‘we eat to live, not live to eat', we should probably start running for the hills, to avoid picking a fight. Food is meant to be enjoyed, savoured, and relished; it is there to give us satisfaction and happiness as well as energy.

When we eat, it not only affects our weight, but also our ability to concentrate, the way we communicate with others, and even our earning potential. According to the author, nothing else in the world affects so many areas of our life, which is why the relationship between human beings and food often becomes much more complex than it needs to be.

  

The key ideas of "Eat Smarter"

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Nutrition is actually an extremely simple concept; it is our relationship with food that is complicated
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The bright side of fats and the important differences between them
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Our microbiome affects the slimming process, among many other things
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The importance of probiotics: what to take to stay healthy and why
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Macronutrients are widely debated in the field of nutrition, but how much do we really know about them?
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The key role of the brain in body nutrition
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Nutrition not only affects our health, but also our behaviour
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The importance of our eating schedule: intermittent fasting
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Quotes
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Take-home message
 
 
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