Join Chris in his travels through the world of food science and a UPF diet to discover what's really going on. 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). In this book, Chris van Tulleken, father, scientist, doctor, and award-winning BBC broadcaster, marshals the latest evidence to show how governments, scientists, and doctors have allowed transnational food companies to create a pandemic of diet-related disease. The solutions don't lie in willpower, personal responsibility, or exercise. You'll find no diet plan in this book-but join Chris as he undertakes a powerful self-experiment that made headlines around the world: under the supervision of colleagues at University College London he spent a month eating a diet of 80 percent UPF, typical for many children and adults in the United States. While his body became the subject of scientific scrutiny, he spoke to the world's leading experts from academia, agriculture, and-most important-the food industry itself. But more than teaching him about the experience of the food, the diet switched off Chris's own addiction to UPF. If you only read one diet or nutrition book in your life, make it this one. It will not only change the way you eat but the way you think about food. And it does all this without a hint of finger-wagging or body shaming. I came away feeling so much better informed about every aspect of ultra-processed food, from the way it affects the microbes in our gut to why it is so profitable to produce to why it’s so hard to eat only a single bowl of Coco Pops to why any food that is marketed as ‘better for you’ is almost certainly not." - Bee Wilson, author of Consider the Fork and The Secret of Cooking One interesting side note that has caused me to re-think another book I read recently (Outlive) is the effort by Peter Attia and his partner to pin the blame for the obesity epidemic on sugar. Attia and Taube founded an organization called NuSI to study how sugar in food drives obesity, and, to give them credit, they had a strict scientific methodology in their studies. The problem is that studies showed no difference between calories obtained from fat or carbohydrate or protein in terms of obesity outcomes. What does make a difference is whether the food has high UPF content. Attia, in his book, pushes a high protein diet but says he now believes nutrition is far less important than exercise in controlling weight. I think this new stance comes from being burned (and losing millions of dollars) in his NuSI initiative, so I now have other questions about Attia's assertions in his book. But I digress.

This book is going to hurt, exposing the food industry’s underbelly in painstaking, gory, unanaesthetised detail And CVT knows his shit. A molecular biologist, the book is “scholarly”, charting the invention of UPF, the techniques behind it and its medical impact, cataloguing “commerciogenic malnutrition” caused by companies and other deeply unpleasant diseases linked to UPF, from type 2 diabetes to cancer.He states that UPF is "strongly associated with an increased risk of death, diabetes, depression, dementia, all cancers, frailty and other conditions set forth as a dozen bullet points (p62) to which he later adds others, including climate change. He claims a high UPF diet "is linked to more deaths globally than tobacco, high blood pressure or any other health risk--22 percent of all deaths. (p167). Highly readable . . . van Tulleken writes with the confidence of a doctor who has a reassuring bedside manner. . . . A scientist at heart, [he] isn’t afraid to take sides on some of the most controversial topics surrounding nutrition.. . . Charming. . . . You’ll never read a food label quite the same way again.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune Thanks to "Ultra-Processed People," I'm now committed to reducing my consumption of UPFoods. The book has empowered me with knowledge and a new perspective on the food choices I make. I can't emphasise enough how valuable this book is for anyone who cares about their health and the quality of the food they put into their bodies.

Chris van Tulleken is an infectious diseases doctor at UCLH, and one of the BBC’s leading science presenters having worked on many flagship Health & Science programmes. His research focuses on how corporations affect human health especially in the context of child nutrition and he works with UNICEF and The World Health Organisation on this area. Chris co-presents CBBC’s Operation Ouch! alongside his twin brother Xand van Tulleken. Chris’ recently released book Ultra-Processed People explores the world of ultra-processed food and the affect it’s having on the health of the public. An eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and production of ultra-processed food.** Join hosts Doctor Xand van Tulleken and Dr Rochelle Burgess for Season 3, Episode 2 of Public Health Disrupted with Chris van Tulleken and Christina Adane. EPISODE DESCRIPTION Mindblowing. You’ll never see food—or your body—the same way again.” —Alice Roberts, author of Anatomical Oddities In the book, Chris takes you on a wild ride through the ups and downs of our modern food dilemma, proving it's not our fault (at least not completely)...I mean, I've always been someone who sees overweight people and just assumes it's laziness. And I've completely changed my view, realising the grip that the food industry has on us, often with messages from 'trusted' people like our own governments. And it's all from the profit hungry machine, that makes us feel like we're hungry all the time!

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humans are evolved to carefully regulate our own energy expenditure. doing 500 calories of exercise doesn't necessarily mean we can eat 500 extra calories of food. rather, it means that we burn about 500 less calories throughout the day on other things. this may come in the form of deeper sleep, reduced hormonal activity, or reduced anxiety/stress. the way i see this affecting my life is i no longer want to use exercise as a means to lose weight, but rather as a way to become stronger, sleep better, and feel better. Supermarket bread contains emulsifiers, and gluten or protein isolates,” the doctor said this morning. “That’s a UPF. We are sure now, as a category of food, this is driving up diet-related disease. Diet-related disease has replaced tobacco as the leading cause of death on planet Earth.

In this book, Chris van Tulleken, father, scientist, doctor, and award-winning BBC broadcaster, marshals the latest evidence to show how governments, scientists, and doctors have allowed transnational food companies to create a pandemic of diet-related disease. The solutions don’t lie in willpower, personal responsibility, or exercise. You’ll find no diet plan in this book―but join Chris as he undertakes a powerful self-experiment that made headlines around the world: under the supervision of colleagues at University College London he spent a month eating a diet of 80 percent UPF, typical for many children and adults in the United States. While his body became the subject of scientific scrutiny, he spoke to the world’s leading experts from academia, agriculture, and―most important―the food industry itself. But more than teaching him about the experience of the food, the diet switched off Chris’s own addiction to UPF. After reading up on it, I've found myself reading the ingredients on pretty much everything I buy. I mean, a 30 minute shopping trip is taking me well over an hour now! and Formerly Known As Food: How the Industrial Food System Is Changing Our Minds, Bodies, and Culture. An eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and production of ultra-processed food. Disregarding any scientific definition of UPF the author defines it in the Introduction : "UPF has a long, formal scientific definition, but it can be boiled down to this: if it's wrapped in plastic and has at least one ingredient that you wouldn't ordinarily find in a home kitchen, it's UPF." (p6) He adds on pp(217-218) "whether something might be UPF, it's probably a good rule of thumb that,if any of the ingredients are in your deodorant or your enema, then it probably is."UPFs include foods we might even view as harmless. Forget fatty meat or microwave lasagnes, supermarket bread is ultra-processed, the book says. A devastating, witty and scholarly destruction of the shit food we eat and why.” —Adam Rutherford, bestselling author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived PDF / EPUB File Name: Ultra_-_Processed_People_-_Chris_van_Tulleken.pdf, Ultra_-_Processed_People_-_Chris_van_Tulleken.epub