The Truth About Food Book

Every day we read newspaper articles proclaiming that red meats will give us cancer and eggs can cause heart disease only to hear the next day that the same foods will prolong our life prevent disease give us healthy children. Is there any truth in any of this? It's time to find out. To be broadcast by BBC2 in January 2007 as six one-hour programmes "The Truth About Food" will be a huge flagship "BBC" series: a series which aims to tell its audience the truth and nothing but the truth about which foods benefit them and how. It will put unfounded beliefs to the test identifying once and for all which are simply myth and which foods can be scientifically proven to help us change our lives for the better. Proof from the scientific laboratory (for example from tests on identical twins) will be made accessible and presented for the general public by a string of household names: Fiona Bruce will tell you how to be healthy Vic Reeves will tell you how to be sexy Colin Jackson will reveal how to win and Lisa Tarbuck how to feed your kids. Can blueberries really make you more intelligent? Is it worth drinking eight glasses of water a day?Is there a food kids can eat to help them get better marks at school? "The TV" series and tie-in book will answer these questions and more. "The Truth About Food" will be the biggest-ever undertaking of its kind: a huge televised investigation delivering for the first time real and provable evidence of just how your diet influences every area of your life. You will see convincing proof of the incredible and sometimes shocking effect of food on the inner workings of your body from your immune system and appetite to your memory and even your libido. The tie-in book contains full-colour photographs illustrations and stills from the series.