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From: Intelligence Squared To: j leevacation@gmaiLcom> Subject: What Should We Eat To Live Long and Healthy? Last Few Tickets Remaining Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 15:56:41 +0000 ib,tn emgcn e A The Bittersweet Truth about what we Eat Thursday 16th Feb. 7pm. RGS What should we be eating to live a long and healthy life? How is it that some people can eat absolutely anything and stay slim, while others on a healthy' diet get fat? Why is it that Cubans are much healthier than Americans. despite eating on average twice the amount of sugar? To unpack the truth behind the often confusing information about the food we eat, Intelligence Squared are bringing together some of the worlds leading experts on the science of human nutrition and health. Sugar has recently replaced saturated fat as the nutritional enemy number one. The theory is that it messes with our metabolism and causes heart disease, obesity and diabetes. Arguing that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium in our event will be acclaimed science writer Gary Taubes. whose new book The Case Against Sugar has been making waves on both sides of the Atlantic. No one doubts that consuming a lot of sugar is unhealthy, but does the 'sugar is poison' theory really tell the whole story? A different explanation lies in a subject that has been getting a lot of attention recently — our gut microbiome. This is made up of the trillions of bacteria that inhabit our intestines and help digest our food and keep us healthy. The bad news is that the diversity of our microbes has plummeted in recent years due to the narrower range of foods and the predominance of processed junk in the Western diet. Research indicates that, rather than any single foodstuff being to blame for the rise of obesity and other modern diseases, the root of the problem lies in our depleted microbiomes. Setting out the new research on our gut bacteria and debunking many popular myths about diet will be Tim Spector, an award-winning scientist who runs the British Gut project. What makes the subject even more fascinating is that we all have a very individual cocktail of bacteria in our gut, and Speakers ; t..; Dr Sarah Jarvis GP, Clinical Director of Patient.info, and resident doctor on the Jeremy Vine show and the One Show. She is the author of six books on health and medicine including The Welcome Visitor, a book on the ethics of dying co-authored with John Humphrys, as well as three books in the popular 'For Dummies' series including Diabetes for Dummies. ;..1 IIr Professor Eran Segal Computational biologist at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. He runs the Personalized Nutrition Project, which uses a machine- learning algorithm to accurately predict an individual's blood glucose responses to food based on knowledge of their microbiome. His research shows that personalised diets based on the algorithm significantly lower blood glucose responses to food. Professor Tim Spector Professor of Epidemiology at King's College London and author of The Diet Myth: The Real Science Behind What We Eat. which was described by many reviewers as 'life-changing'. He has won several academic awards and published over 700 academic papers, many of which relate directly to nutrition and the causes of obesity. Since 2014 he has been leading the UK's largest open-source science project. British Gut, to understand the microbial diversity of the human gut. Gary Taubes (via video link) Award-winning American science and health writer, who argues in EFTA00635942 research shows that the way we respond to food relates more to our own specific set of microbes than the calories in the food itself. Joining us will be Eran Segal, one of world's leading scientists in this field, who will explain how his lab can wire you up and predict precisely which carbohydrates you should and shouldn't eat so as to prevent weight gain and be healthy. The results can be surprising. In 60% of cases, they show that you can enjoy sugary ice-cream but should avoid rice. A sharp critic of many of the 'fashionable' theories about diet and wellbeing is Sarah Jarvis, a GP who appears regularly on BBC radio and television. Her goal is to help her patients and the general public get the best quality information on nutrition and lifestyle so that they can make the informed decisions they need to be in control of their health. Chairing the event will be Xand van Tulleken. a medical doctor and popular television broadcaster, who with his twin brother Chris. has presented a number of documentaries, often testing various diets on their identical genes. Come to the Royal Geographical Society this Thursday February 16th listen to our fascinating experts and join in the debate. G. his acclaimed new book, The Case Against Sugar, that obesity is a hormonal disorder, switched on by sugar. Taubes is co-founder of the Nutrition Science Initiative and his previous publications include Why We Get Fat and The Diet Delusion. His writing has appeared in Discover, Science. The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Nature and the British Journal of Medicine. He has received three Science in Society Journalism Awards from the National Association of Science Writers and is the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research. Chair Dr Xand van Tulleken Medical doctor and broadcaster who has presented numerous shows for the BBC and Channel 4, often alongside his twin brother Chris. Their 2014 BBC1 Horizon programme on the Sugar V Fat debate was a huge success and gained a lot attention in the press. Other programmes Xand has fronted include Blow Your Mind, Secret Life of Twins, How to Lose Weight Well and Medicine Men Gone Wild. His book How to Lose Weight Well, which accompanied the television series, went straight to the top of the Amazon book charts. He is a contributing editor to the first edition of the Oxford Handbook of Humanitarian Medicine and has worked for Doctors of the World, Merlin and the World Health Organization in humanitarian crises around the world. P c sil Witter dj OU I UDC Intelligence Squared is proudly supported by its media partner VANITY FAIR bounaciouri itaul2salte Intelligence' Ltd , Newcombe House, 45 Notting Hill Gate, London WIT 3LQ Copyright © Intelligence' LW. All rights reserved. EFTA00635943 EFTA00635944