Death by Comfort: How modern life is killing us and what we can do about it

Our genome has not changed in over 45,000 years, but the world has changed enormously and there are multiple mismatches with modern life.

Homo sapiens evolved and thrived because we hunted down prey with the tools we made, ate a range of natural foods from the environment and led highly physical lives necessary for the proper functioning of our bodies and brains. Now, most of us spend most of our day sitting on our backsides, and more than 50% of our diet is made up of ultra-processed foods...