Dr Chris van Tulleken: The Food Industry Wants to Buy My Silence

Mm. We've reached the same threshold of of understanding as we did with tobacco, that it's not merely associated. You know, we know that this food causes physical and mental health problems. The thing about the f the food companies is they're not just similar to tobacco companies, they were the tobacco companies. When the government scientific advisory committee on nutrition has such close relationships with the food industry,

It's little wonder we have light regulation. You cannot solve a problem that you profit from creating. Here's a question I want you to ask yourself next time you pick something up in the supermarket. Was this made by someone who loved you? Well, it kinda sounds simple, doesn't it? But ever since Damien and I sat down with Doctor Chris Van Tulliken, it's a question that I've realized you have to ask every time. So Chris is an NHS doctor, an associate professor at UCL, an advisor to the World Health Organization, and the author of the best selling book. Ultra processed people. Now he once spent a month eating a diet that was eighty percent ultra processed food as part of a study with his colleagues at UCL. And what happened?

He says everyone around him suddenly became unbearable, his colleagues, his wife, his kids. He found himself snapping at the people he loves the most. Then forty eight hours after he stopped. The clouds parted. Now just think about that for a second. How many of your bad moods, your short fuses, your difficult days, your I just can't stop eating this moments. Might not actually.

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