Food Quotes by Alice Roberts

11 Food quotes by Alice Roberts

Alice Roberts blends her expertise in anatomy and anthropology with food, and these eleven brief statements reveal how she views meals through a scientific lens. It’s a compact yet intriguing look at nourishment from a scholar’s angle.

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Look what consumer power has done with organic food; we can do the same with clothes.

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The environment would be better off and everyone would be healthier if we stopped eating meat.

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The paleo diet is utter nonsense - it is such pseudoscience.

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After a few days of vegetable curry I crave my husband's home-made pizza.

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I gave up meat when I was 18, and it was an ethical decision. I loved the taste, and went on holiday…

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Lunch on the road is usually the same as breakfast and tea in remote places - packet meals. I'm veggie and generally…

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Eighteen years later, pregnant with my first child, I started eating fish. Oily fish in particular contains plenty of long-chain omega-3 fatty…

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Later, I found it too hard to give up, and so I've continued eating fish and other seafood, while trying to ensure…

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I was a fairly strict vegetarian - I ate eggs and dairy products but nothing that would involve killing an animal to…

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As well as tasting fantastic, blackberries are good for you. Anthocyanin isn't just a pigment, it's a flavonoid, a heroic antioxidant! The…

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I'm strict about taking nuts and dried fruit with me and, if I have access to milk, small packets of porridge to…

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