I’ve always loved the seaside and I used to be a fairly keen surfer, but it’s a solitary activity so when my husband and I had children, we bought sit-on-top kayaks. Whenever possible, we escape to the coast or explore rivers with them. Alice Roberts Read Quote
So I had this fascination with old bones and being able to diagnose disease in old bones. And I was doing that, and started to do bone reports for the Channel 4 series ‘Time Team’. Alice Roberts Read Quote
Then the BBC approached me in 2005 and asked me to be one of the presenters of the series ‘Coast’, which turned into a very long-running series. Alice Roberts Read Quote
Biological anthropology tends to focus on skeletons because that’s what is often left behind in the ground, but I am a whole-body anatomist, I’m a clinical anatomist and that’s what I teach, I teach it all, not just the skeleton, the muscles and nerves, blood vessels. Alice Roberts Read Quote
The environment would be better off and everyone would be healthier if we stopped eating meat. Alice Roberts Read Quote
It’s tempting to look back into history with rose-tinted glasses. Most people in the Stone Age didn’t live anywhere near as long as we’re living now. Today we can enjoy a more wide-ranging diet and we have fruit and vegetables available all year round. Alice Roberts Read Quote
The science of being healthy is well-known. It is not esoteric. There are no magic bullets. If you want to live a long life, we’ve known the answers for more than a hundred years. It’s a wide-ranging diet with as much fruit and veg as you can stuff into yourself, and plenty of exercise. It doesn’t even matter what kind of exercise. Alice Roberts Read Quote
I have family connections with Salisbury through my godmother. Her sister lived there, so I have very fond memories of visiting the city as a child. Alice Roberts Read Quote
You can somehow get access to what is perceived to be a better school by either being religious or appearing to be religious. That is unfair. Alice Roberts Read Quote
