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Health
Lydia Stephens

'I tried expert advice to eat 30 plants a week and this is how it went'

30 plants over one week. Doesn't sound hard, right? That is roughly four a day, one less than the recommended five a day.

But, what makes this "30 a week" different from the five a day? If you regularly hit your five a day by eating the same food every day, then you are probably miles off hitting the 30 a week, and Professor Tim Spector has a problem with that.

Tim Spector OBE is an epidemiologist, medical doctor and science writer and director of the TwinsUK registry at King's College London. He also runs the Zoe study - which was instrumental to learning about the impact of coronavirus on people during the pandemic. He says everything that we previously knew about food is wrong.

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