To be honest the thing I enjoy most about food is eating it! I find it amazing how the best chefs can create a party for your mouth – especially Heston’s cooking http://www.sbs.com.au/shows/hestonsfeasts/about/page/ he’s the closest thing I know to a cooking scientist!
But the other thing i find most interesting about food is how much it can impact our health and even the health of the next generations. I work a lot on epigenetics – its the “nurture” part of “nature vs nurture”. Epigenetics is why pregnant mothers take folate supplements – to make sure the epigenetics of their baby forms correctly.
Scientists now know that diet can change your epigenetics, which means the foods you eat can affect your genes. And it is also known that these changes to your genes can be passed on to your babies, and then even their babies.
This is a topic that lots of people are interested about, and one that needs lots more investigation before we know how it all works… but it is FASCINATING!!!
I agree with Kate: it’s amazing how much we still don’t know about food, given how important it is to us!
I also find that there are interesting social science — as opposed to biological/chemical science — aspects to ‘food’.
For example, I think that if you looked at someone’s weekly shopping list, you could tell things about them just from looking at what food they buy.
And it’d be interesting to find out why enthusiasm for cooking and celebrity chefs has increased so much in the last ten years. I think that someone, somewhere, must be writing a Masters Thesis [university study research project] on Master Chef…
Hi juliexd,
To be honest the thing I enjoy most about food is eating it! I find it amazing how the best chefs can create a party for your mouth – especially Heston’s cooking http://www.sbs.com.au/shows/hestonsfeasts/about/page/ he’s the closest thing I know to a cooking scientist!
But the other thing i find most interesting about food is how much it can impact our health and even the health of the next generations. I work a lot on epigenetics – its the “nurture” part of “nature vs nurture”. Epigenetics is why pregnant mothers take folate supplements – to make sure the epigenetics of their baby forms correctly.
Scientists now know that diet can change your epigenetics, which means the foods you eat can affect your genes. And it is also known that these changes to your genes can be passed on to your babies, and then even their babies.
This is a topic that lots of people are interested about, and one that needs lots more investigation before we know how it all works… but it is FASCINATING!!!
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Hi juliexd,
I agree with Kate: it’s amazing how much we still don’t know about food, given how important it is to us!
I also find that there are interesting social science — as opposed to biological/chemical science — aspects to ‘food’.
For example, I think that if you looked at someone’s weekly shopping list, you could tell things about them just from looking at what food they buy.
And it’d be interesting to find out why enthusiasm for cooking and celebrity chefs has increased so much in the last ten years. I think that someone, somewhere, must be writing a Masters Thesis [university study research project] on Master Chef…
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