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Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken — how our food Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken — how our food

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. As someone who grew up eating what I now understand to be ultra-processed foods and having carried that habit into adulthood, I'm pretty disgusted at how terrifyingly naughty the methods used to make them are, how cantankerous they cat within our bodies and entirely aghast at the overall impact on health. Neuware -An eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and production of ultra-processed food. Beautifully written, each page reveals hidden truths and asks you to re-think and re-connect to food in a way that has been lost for decades.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. Find out why exercise and willpower can’t save us, and what UPF is really doing to our bodies, our health, our weight, and the planet (hint: nothing good).

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This book is a diet grenade, the bold and brutal truth about how we are fed deadly delights by very greedy evil giants. Join Chris in his travels through the world of food science and a UPF diet to discover what's really going on. I spoke to the head of an ice cream company, Alec Jaffe, who's headed for having the second biggest ice cream company in the world. A wonderful and fascinating exposé of ultra-processed food, edible substances with strange sounding ingredients which are manufactured by some of the wealthiest companies on the planet and which, worryingly, form an increasing part of our diet.

van Tulleken’s investigation is an eye-opening one, as he digs deep into the processes that keep our foods from spoiling, make them not only delicious but addictive, and are suppressing and altering our bodies’ natural operations. An event publication that promises to change how we eat, saving ourselves and the planet at the same time. It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance. Ultra-Processed People] integrate[s] concepts of detailed food science and global market forces, showing how these affect individual humans.

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He is a multi-award-winning expert in personalised medicine and the gut microbiome, and the author of five books, including the bestsellers Spoon-Fed and The Diet Myth. Threaded throughout is a highly engaging personal account of the author's own confused relationship with UPF as a doctor, parent and sibling. And yet, we are constructing our bodies out of really quite bizarre substances that we've never encountered before that have very powerful effects on our physiology.Everything is so expensive: our transport, our energy, our accommodation, we're paying so much on rent, there's nothing left for food. He trained at Oxford and has a PhD in molecular virology from University College London where he is an Associate Professor. Read a page and think about it for the rest of the week -- Chris Evans A devastating, witty and scholarly destruction of the shit food we eat and why -- Adam Rutherford If you only read one diet or nutrition book in your life, make it this one. 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.

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He appears regularly on TV, radio and podcasts around the world, and is one of the top 100 most cited scientists in the world. Chances are, if you’re eating something that came wrapped in plastic and contains a funky ingredient you don’t have in your kitchen, it’s most likely—almost definitely—ultra-processed food, or UPF. 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.Packed with ‘I never knew that’ moments, Ultra-Processed People is a wonderfully playful book that changed forever how I think about what I eat and why. I mean, there are some fanatics who do, but until I became a scientist interested in ultra-processed food, I never read the ingredients on anything.