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From: Intelligence Squared To: j leevacation@gmaiLcom> Subject: What Should We Eat To Live Long and Healthy? Last Few Tickets Remaining Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 15:56:41 +0000 ib,tn emgcn e A The Bittersweet Truth about what we Eat Thursday 16th Feb. 7pm. RGS Speakers What should we be eating to live a long and healthy life? ; t..; Dr Sarah Jarvis GP, Clinical Director of Patient.info, and resident How is it that some people can eat absolutely anything and stay doctor on the Jeremy Vine show and the One slim, while others on a healthy' diet get fat? Show. She is the author of six books on health and medicine including The Welcome Visitor, a Why is it that Cubans are much healthier than Americans. despite book on the ethics of dying co-authored with eating on average twice the amount of sugar? John Humphrys, as well as three books in the popular 'For Dummies' series including To unpack the truth behind the often confusing information about Diabetes for Dummies. the food we eat, Intelligence Squared are bringing together some of the worlds leading experts on the science of human nutrition ;..1 Professor Eran Segal and health. Computational biologist at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. He runs the Personalized Sugar has recently replaced saturated fat as the nutritional enemy Nutrition Project, which uses a machine- number one. The theory is that it messes with our metabolism and learning algorithm to accurately predict an causes heart disease, obesity and diabetes. Arguing that sugar is individual's blood glucose responses to food the tobacco of the new millennium in our event will be acclaimed based on knowledge of their microbiome. His science writer Gary Taubes. whose new book The Case Against research shows that personalised diets based Sugar has been making waves on both sides of the Atlantic. No on the algorithm significantly lower blood one doubts that consuming a lot of sugar is unhealthy, but does glucose responses to food. the 'sugar is poison' theory really tell the whole story? IIr Professor Tim Spector A different explanation lies in a subject that has been getting a lot Professor of Epidemiology at King's College of attention recently — our gut microbiome. This is made up of the London and author of The Diet Myth: The Real trillions of bacteria that inhabit our intestines and help digest our Science Behind What We Eat. which was food and keep us healthy. The bad news is that the diversity of our described by many reviewers as 'life-changing'. microbes has plummeted in recent years due to the narrower He has won several academic awards and range of foods and the predominance of processed junk in the published over 700 academic papers, many of Western diet. Research indicates that, rather than any single which relate directly to nutrition and the causes foodstuff being to blame for the rise of obesity and other modern of obesity. Since 2014 he has been leading the diseases, the root of the problem lies in our depleted UK's largest open-source science project. microbiomes. Setting out the new research on our gut bacteria British Gut, to understand the microbial diversity and debunking many popular myths about diet will be Tim of the human gut. Spector, an award-winning scientist who runs the British Gut project. What makes the subject even more fascinating is that we Gary Taubes (via video link) all have a very individual cocktail of bacteria in our gut, and Award-winning American science and health writer, who argues in EFTA00635942 research shows that the way we respond to food relates more to G. his acclaimed new book, The Case Against our own specific set of microbes than the calories in the food Sugar, that obesity is a hormonal disorder, itself. Joining us will be Eran Segal, one of world's leading switched on by sugar. Taubes is co-founder of scientists in this field, who will explain how his lab can wire you up the Nutrition Science Initiative and his previous and predict precisely which carbohydrates you should and publications include Why We Get Fat and The shouldn't eat so as to prevent weight gain and be healthy. The Diet Delusion. His writing has appeared in results can be surprising. In 60% of cases, they show that you can Discover, Science. The New York Times enjoy sugary ice-cream but should avoid rice. Magazine, The Atlantic, Nature and the British Journal of Medicine. He has received three A sharp critic of many of the 'fashionable' theories about diet and Science in Society Journalism Awards from the wellbeing is Sarah Jarvis, a GP who appears regularly on BBC National Association of Science Writers and is radio and television. Her goal is to help her patients and the the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson general public get the best quality information on nutrition and Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy lifestyle so that they can make the informed decisions they need Research. to be in control of their health. Chairing the event will be Xand van Tulleken. a medical doctor Chair and popular television broadcaster, who with his twin brother Chris. has presented a number of documentaries, often testing Dr Xand van Tulleken various diets on their identical genes. Medical doctor and broadcaster who has presented numerous shows for the BBC and Come to the Royal Geographical Society this Thursday February Channel 4, often alongside his twin brother 16th listen to our fascinating experts and join in the debate. Chris. Their 2014 BBC1 Horizon programme on the Sugar V Fat debate was a huge success and gained a lot attention in the press. Other programmes Xand has fronted include Blow Your Mind, Secret Life of Twins, How to Lose Weight Well and Medicine Men Gone Wild. His book How to Lose Weight Well, which accompanied the television series, went straight to the top of the Amazon book charts. He is a contributing editor to the first edition of the Oxford Handbook of Humanitarian Medicine and has worked for Doctors of the World, Merlin and the World Health Organization in humanitarian crises around the world. 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