After a few days of vegetable curry I crave my husband's home-made pizza. — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
Look what consumer power has done with organic food; we can do the same with clothes. — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
The environment would be better off and everyone would be healthier if we stopped eating meat. — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
I'm strict about taking nuts and dried fruit with me and, if I have access to milk, small packets of porridge to… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
I gave up meat when I was 18, and it was an ethical decision. I loved the taste, and went on holiday… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
Lunch on the road is usually the same as breakfast and tea in remote places - packet meals. I'm veggie and generally… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
Eighteen years later, pregnant with my first child, I started eating fish. Oily fish in particular contains plenty of long-chain omega-3 fatty… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
Later, I found it too hard to give up, and so I've continued eating fish and other seafood, while trying to ensure… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
I was a fairly strict vegetarian - I ate eggs and dairy products but nothing that would involve killing an animal to… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
As well as tasting fantastic, blackberries are good for you. Anthocyanin isn't just a pigment, it's a flavonoid, a heroic antioxidant! The… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
Our ape legs make us great generalists - we can walk, run and climb. But when you try to do too many things at… — Alice Roberts Copy Share
Pagan Romans started their midwinter celebrations with the feast of Saturnalia on 17 December, ending them with a new year festival, the Kalendae Januariae,… — Alice Roberts Copy Share
I'm slightly obsessed with Moomins. They were my specialist subject on BBC's 'Celebrity Mastermind' a few years ago! — Alice Roberts Copy Share
I gave up meat when I was 18, and it was an ethical decision. I loved the taste, and went on holiday to Greece,… — Alice Roberts Copy Share
As an anthropologist, I believe strongly in our common humanity. We can rise above the tribal divisions that have caused so much anguish and… — Alice Roberts Copy Share
If a group of humans began to run regularly, perhaps allowing them to hunt or scavenge more effectively, anatomical changes would follow, especially among… — Alice Roberts Copy Share
The real hallmarks of humanity are: curiosity and an amazing ability to cooperate. — Alice Roberts Copy Share
I've always loved the seaside and I used to be a fairly keen surfer, but it's a solitary activity so when my husband and… — Alice Roberts Copy Share
It's tempting to look back into history with rose-tinted glasses. Most people in the Stone Age didn't live anywhere near as long as we're… — Alice Roberts Copy Share
It is so stimulating for young children to hear someone who does science talking about it. It can be so exciting and inspiring. It… — Alice Roberts Copy Share
It's incredible that the layout of the centre of Chester, for instance, is still essentially that of the original Roman fort. — Alice Roberts Copy Share
More useful than beautiful perhaps, my favourite regular programme is 'Question Time'. And Charlie Brooker is just hilarious. — Alice Roberts Copy Share
Whatever happens to science in schools, there's something peculiar going on if students don't see it as creative. — Alice Roberts Copy Share
