Epigenetics is defined as the study of inheritable modifications in gene expression that do not involve changes in DNA nucleotide sequences
“At present around 80 per cent of the world’s farmland is used to graze animals or to produce crops to feed to animals. The combined weight of animals bred for food is now ten times the combined weight of all wild mammals and birds put together.27, 28”
― Ultra-Processed People: Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food
― Ultra-Processed People: Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food
“The food security that many of us enjoy is the product of a system of production that has kept costs low by destroying wild land and not paying for the costs of atmospheric carbon. These approaches will, ironically, create huge food insecurity. This is happening already around the globe, but nowhere more directly than in the areas of the Amazon that have been deforested to grow soy.”
― Ultra-Processed People: Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food
― Ultra-Processed People: Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food
“There are, it seems to me, four main pathways to the truth: science, reason, intuition and imagination.”
― The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
― The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
“The single greatest predictor of a healthy gut microbiome is the diversity of plants in one’s diet.”
― Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Gut Health Program for Losing Weight, Restoring Your Health, andOptimizing Your Microbiome
― Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Gut Health Program for Losing Weight, Restoring Your Health, andOptimizing Your Microbiome
“To tell an honest story, it is not enough for numbers to be correct. They need to be placed in an appropriate context so that a reader or listener can properly interpret them.”
― Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
― Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
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