Ultra Processed People

by Chris van Tulleken

A must read for everyone really. Very accessible and straightforward. Basically we're destroying our health by eating ultra processed food and there's not much we can do about it. It's not just killing us, but the planet as well.

Time to start eating proper food, cooked at home from basic ingredients. The rest doesn't really matter: sugar, fats, carbs, protein, you name it. Sweetners are sending the wrong messages to our brains so that our bodies expect to be full of energy, but they are not, making us eat more. Additives are interferring with the functioning of our bodies at a basic level, yet science does not understand how exactly. Nevertheless, the NOVA food group sutdies show a clear link between health outcomes and UPF.

Increasing numbers of people, especially poor people, live in food swamps where the only food they can actually buy is UPF.

Yet, the problem is not the UPF companies, who are only doing their duty of maximising shareholder value. Rather it must be solved through regulation, otherwise one company changing it's methods will not help. Others will fill the gap.

15.10.2024 to 07.12.2024.