by NRB | 19 Oct 2021 | Non-fiction |
Dr Norman Swan investigates the evidence for common assumptions we make about what is and isn’t good for our health. Despite its 432 pages, a brief description of Swan’s book could be ‘a health compendium for busy people’. Part memoir, part handbook, it ranges...
by NRB | 24 Sep 2020 | Non-fiction |
Can animals teach us how to eat in healthier ways? David Raubenheimer and Stephen J Simpson think so. There’s nothing like being compared to slime mould to bring you down to size. As a species we think we’re really something – illustrious, monstrous, baffling – but...
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