At the same time, UPF represents the dominant, nigh-unavoidable food culture for millions upon millions of eaters. If you’d like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. The past ten years has seen an inflection point in human history, where more people in the world are now dying of eating too much, than of eating too little. Chris van Tulleken is an infectious diseases doctor at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London.

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So you can get almost the same creamy custard-y thing that you get from eggs by using a chemical that costs 100 times less and doesn't have bacterial risk. Food is our greatest ally for good health, but the question of what to eat in the age of ultra-processed food has never seemed so complicated. Chris van Tulleken bravely turns himself into a guinea pig to explore the ins and outs of ultra-processed food. And you also talk about the fact that ultra-processed food is easier to freeze, it lasts for longer. But do we really know what it's doing to our bodies Join Chris in his travels through the world of food science and a UPF diet to discover what's really going on.The Omnivore’s Dilemma meets Fast Food Nation from a global perspective in this game-changing look at the science, economics, and history of ultra-processed food and the industry’s effect on our health and planet. 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 . A scientist at heart, [he] isn’t afraid to take sides on some of the most controversial topics surrounding nutrition. 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.

Ultra-processed People [2023] paperback Chris van Tulleken: Ultra-processed People [2023] paperback

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. Books come along once in a while, once every couple of years, once in a generation that meet culture at the exact moment with the exact language, with the exact appreciation of the reader – the nuance, the inclusivity.They carry salmonella, potentially’ – there was literally, just in the news the day before I spoke to him, a salmonella scare. There's a brilliant moment where you talk about being in the park and your daughter is having an ice cream. 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. 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? He is an associate professor at University College London and a practicing infectious diseases doctor.