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Ultra-Processed People - Chris van Tulleken - 2023
Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food
By: Chris van Tulleken
Narrated by: Chris van Tulleken, Dr. Xand van Tulleken
Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 05-09-23
Categories: Health & Wellness, Agricultural & Food Sciences, Hygiene & Healthy Living
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo
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.
It’s not you, it’s the food.
How much of our daily caloric intake comes from ingesting substances that, technically speaking, do not meet traditional definitions of “food”? 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. 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. At the same time, UPF represents the dominant, nigh-unavoidable food culture for millions upon millions of eaters.
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. As he argues in this book, we are all participants in an experiment we didn't consent to, one to determine how to get us to buy as much ultra-processed food as possible. 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. Nor is it a matter of individual will. It’s about learning to live in “the third age of eating”—defined by the overwhelming abundance of ultra-processed eating options—and arming yourself with the simple and not-so-simple facts that will help you make the choices that are right for you.
©2023 Chris van Tulleken (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Critic Reviews
"“Engrossing. . . . [Ultra-processed food] makes most fictional villains look quaint. You’ve got a diabolical product that scientists and capitalists have literally got into our bodies (even mine?!) profoundly affecting our health and even our thoughts. Chris van Tulleken has written an astonishingly well-researched book on a plague that most of us aren’t even thinking about, but one whose architects are most certainly thinking about us, with ill intent. Read it and fight back!”—Rob Delaney, New York Times bestselling author of A Heart That Works
“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.”—Hannah Fry, author of Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
“A wonderful and fascinating exposé. . . . [Chris van Tulleken] backs up his claims with a powerful self-experiment, along with lots of rigorous and often shocking research. Reading this book will make you question what you eat and how it was produced.”—Dr. Michael Mosley, bestselling author of The Clever Gut Diet
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