Tim Spector
British epidemiologist, professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London and co-founder of the nutrition company ZOE, who writes the Gut Feelings newsletter.
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Their wordsWhat these foods have in common isn’t fermentation – it’s salt.
↗Do fermented foods cause stomach cancer?timspector.substack.com 1st of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsIn other words, what really moved the needle was less salt-preserved food and fewer H. pylori infections – not giving up fermented foods.
↗Do fermented foods cause stomach cancer?timspector.substack.com 2nd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsThe viral claim is a red herring. There’s no good evidence that fermentation itself causes cancer.
↗Do fermented foods cause stomach cancer?timspector.substack.com 3rd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsSo I still recommend three portions of fermented foods a day – it’s what I do.
↗Do fermented foods cause stomach cancer?timspector.substack.com 4th of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsFor some conditions, in other words, screening simply is not good enough to justify offering it to everyone.
↗Cancer screening: is it really as simple as it sounds?timspector.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsMy own view, and it is the direction the evidence points, is that we are better off spending our very limited NHS resources on encouraging people to be aware of their own bodies and to come forward early, and on building a faster, more efficient service to treat cancers when they are caught early, rather than on screening millions of people who will never develop these cancers.
↗Cancer screening: is it really as simple as it sounds?timspector.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsAlmost any position can be propped up by cherry picking a single study, or increasingly a review generated by AI.
↗Should adults drink milk?timspector.substack.com 1st of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsMilk, in other words, is not the bone protecting miracle food many of us once believed, and that I once championed.
↗Should adults drink milk?timspector.substack.com 2nd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsI don’t think adults need to drink milk if they eat a reasonable diet.
↗Should adults drink milk?timspector.substack.com 3rd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsBut if I had to choose, I would spend my daily food budget on yogurt, kefir and other fermented foods, whether made from dairy or from plants, rather than on another glass of milk.
↗Should adults drink milk?timspector.substack.com 4th of 4 in this piece