Professor Tim Spector has revealed the six key principles that people should follow in order to boost their overall health. The founder of the ZOE Health Study, Professor Spector outlined how people could stay healthy by following six simple steps. Amongst these slices of advice was the recommendation that people should consume 30 plants per week, “eat the rainbow”, pivot their protein, and think in terms of quality, and not calories.
Also among Professor Spector ’s tips were the incorporation of fermented foods into one’s diet, and a suggestion that maybe time-restricted eating could be beneficial for the gut microbiome, the group of bacteria based inside the gut. On that final piece of advice, Professor Spector wrote in the Mail on Sunday that time-restricted eating, also known as TRE, was based on the idea that when and how someone eats “can matter as much as what” they tuck into. He suggested that the “sweet spot” for TRE was a 12-14 hour overnight fast, because it was effective and could, importantly, be sustained in the long term.
Moving backwards to fermented foods, Professor Spector suggested the likes of kombucha, kefir as well as “fermented mushroom-and-garlic spread”. Among his other tips, was for people to “pivot” their protein to focus on getting more fibre into one’s diet - so moving from meat to legumes, cheese, eggs, and edamame. Professor Spector ’s other tips are ones which are considered staples of maintaining a healthy diet; suc.
