It seems to be a case of lots of variety in your diet, ideally lots of different vegetables, nuts, pulses etc, and cutting down/out highly processed foods. Vari

It seems to be a case of lots of variety in your diet, ideally lots of different vegetables, nuts, pulses etc, and cutting down/out highly processed foods. Variety seems to be the spice of life, quite literally. I've just finished reading Prof. Tim Spector's "The Diet Myth". The book's title is a little hyperbolic, but it works through all the major food groups and how we eat and talks about both the historic research and diet fads of the past (like Ansel Keys research that sparked the obsession with low fat foods) and how all these different foodstuffs tie into our gut bacteria, which in turn affects us. Tim's "thing" is the human biome, but I didn't read it as him touting it as a cureall, but as something that is more important than almost all of us are aware, and which has been seriously neglected to the point that it's having an impact on many aspects of our health. He's also pretty open that a lot of this is still very much up in the air at the moment, and lots more study is needed to really understand many of the effects. He also seems pretty sceptical of the medicallisation and the obsession with isolating one factor and packaging it up as a supplement or magic pill that will solve your health issues.