The Junk Food Doctor: "This Food Is Worse Than Smoking!" & "This Diet Prevents 60% Of Disease!" - Chris Van Tulleken (Ultra-Processed People Author)

What if what you were eating wasn’t really food but an industrially produced edible substance, and your diet was worse for you than smoking?
In this new episode Steven sits down with doctor and New York Times bestselling author, Chris van Tulleken.
Dr. Chris van Tulleken is an infectious diseases doctor and one of the BBC’s leading science presenters, appearing on shows such as, ‘The Doctor Who Gave Up Drugs’, ‘Trust Me, I’m A Doctor’ and ‘Operation Ouch!’. He is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling book, ‘Ultra-Processed People’.
In this conversation Dr. Chris and Steven discuss topics, such as:

What is ‘Ultra-Processed Food’

Why 80% of the average diet is not real food

The ways that ultra-processed food can impact your health

How there is a pandemic of junk food

Dr Chris’s experiment of living of ultra-processed food

The ways that junk food is causing a public health emergency

The ways that your diet can be deadlier than smoking

The lies we’ve been told about 'health' food

Why ‘health’ food isn’t actually healthy

The ways that food guidelines are actually nonsense

How half the world’s population is predicted to become obese in 12 years time

Why exercise can't burn off fat fast enough

How we are tackling obesity in the wrong way

The impact of a Ultra-Processed diet on intelligence

How you can inherit obesity

The ways that food companies have made their food addictive

How food companies are like the mafia

Ways that food companies target us with ultra-processed food

How ultra-processed food can be more addictive that nicotine

How the average diet is making people not just fatter but shorter

Why we need to start a food revolution


You can purchase Chris’ most recent book, ‘Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?’, here: https://amzn.to/3sikpaZ

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