As Chris shows, not only have these foods been formulated to ensure that we eat them constantly and without thought, but they hijack our ability to regulate what we eat, primarily by affecting our brains. So I spoke to someone at a massive investment fund at BlackRock, and she said, “You do realise that Danone are not in control of their business model, right? More than the principal obstacle to “eating right,” UPF has been linked to metabolic disease, depression, inflammation, anxiety, and cancer, while the production, distribution, and disposal of UPF and related products globally is known to cause devastating environmental damage.

Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t

This urgent and captivating read digs deep into one of the huge reasons, the rise and rise of ultra-processed food. His account of what happens to our food during its trip to our gut, and the connection that bad food has to the epidemics of obesity and diabetes . For too long we've been told we just need to make different choices, when really we're living in a food environment that makes it nigh-on impossible.

Van Tulleken is at his best when using his own scientific expertise to help readers through otherwise unnavigable science, data and history, explaining with precision what we are actually eating. It’s not as simple as stumbling across the right diet trend, finding time to meal plan, or avoiding over-indulging in sugar, fat, or carbs or any other culprit. Van Tulleken delves into the science and economics of UPF, reframing obesity as a "commerciogenic disease" driven by an unregulated industry and caused by the consumption of knowingly harmful, addictive substances. A tour of how the science of processing has allowed companies to produce goods that are no longer even faint echoes of the real food of which they are copies.

Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken | Waterstones

Any changes made can be done at any time and will become effective at the end of the trial period, allowing you to retain full access for 4 weeks, even if you downgrade or cancel. So consumers are hammering the supermarkets down, the supermarkets hammer the suppliers, the producers, so we end up with kind of the root problem being poverty and inequality. Medical doctor and broadcaster Chris van Tulleken has spent his career trying to reframe the conversation around eating right, balancing the hard (and sometimes shocking) facts about what we’re putting into our bodies with empathy for the natural desire to keep eating what we like, have time for, and can afford. Van Tulleken is at his best when using his own scientific expertise to help readers through otherwise unnavigable science, data and history, explaining with precision what we are actually eating Jacob E.An eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and production of ultra-processed food. So many of the people I spoke to in the food industry were like, ‘We would love to stop selling addictive garbage to children.