Dr. Joe Schwarcz

And once again, single foods do not make food angelic or devilish.

It's the overall diet that matters.

Yeah, very often you can trace it to that or to some sort of myth.

There's a story that goes around about tomatoes, that tomatoes are toxic because they are also in the nightshade family.

And the story is that in the United States, they were not eaten because of that until somewhere in the 1800s, when a gentleman by name of Johnson, in front of a crowd in Salem, Massachusetts, decided to demonstrate that tomatoes are healthy and bit into a tomato.

as a little orchestra played a funeral dirge in the background.

He had invited people to gather to watch this epic event because they thought that they would see his demise when he bit into a tomato.

He ate one and then he ate another.

As the legend says, at that point, tomato eating was initiated in North America.

Well, there is some science there.

The reason that people advocate intermittent eating is for weight loss, essentially.

And the story is that if you decide that you're only going to eat between certain hours of the day

It will be healthier and you will be able to control your weight better.

And mostly people who go on to intermittent fasting say that they will restrict their eating to between 8 o'clock in the morning and 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

And they feel better and they say they have better weight control.

I think that that is probably true because it automatically means that you're going to restrict your total food intake.

We do an awful lot of snacking at night.

And obviously, if you're cutting out eating after 4 o'clock, then you're cutting out all of that snacking.

And the studies show that people who do go in for this intermittent fasting do consume fewer calories.

No single discovery, because in fact, science doesn't work like that.