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🗓️ 1 July 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Renowned doctor, researcher and advocate, Chris Van Tulleken joins Jake and Damian for a candid conversation on the impact of ultra-processed foods on our mental and physical health.
He shares his insights on how certain foods not only harm our bodies but also mess with our minds, leading to anxiety, depression, and a lack of control. He explains his own 30-day junk food experiment and its effects and describes the physical and mental toll of such diets, highlighting their effects on sleep, mood, and digestion.
Chris expresses the urgent need for systemic changes, such as warning labels on food and removing financial ties between the food industry and government committees. He shares how his book ‘Ultra-Processed People’ aims to empower readers and spark a grassroots movement for better food policies.
He offers practical advice for families looking to make healthier choices now, without waiting for policy changes. This episode encourages us to channel our frustration with the food system into activism and policy change to create a healthier future for everyone.
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0:00.0 | You cannot solve a problem that you profit from creating. |
0:04.0 | When the Government Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition |
0:07.0 | has such close relationships with the food industry, |
0:10.0 | it's little wonder we have light regulation. |
0:12.0 | I mean, the scientists I was speaking to at the companies, right? |
0:15.0 | Men and women with PhDs who dedicate their entire lives |
0:18.0 | with almost unlimited budgets to making food that you can't stop eating, right? |
0:22.0 | You're somewhat powerless. I would say |
0:24.4 | that we've reached the same threshold of understanding as we did with tobacco that |
0:29.8 | it's not merely associated. You know, we know that this food causes physical and |
0:34.3 | mental health problems. That is author, doctor and junk food expert Dr. Chris |
0:40.3 | Van Tullican and this is high performance performance the show that unlocks the minds of the most |
0:44.9 | fascinating people on the planet and today we unlock the truth about ultra processed food. |
0:51.2 | What is really going on inside you? What is that food actually |
0:54.7 | doing to you? And why is it a battle that we simply have to win? I'm Jay |
0:59.7 | Humphrey and alongside Damien Hughes we learn from the stories the struggles and |
1:03.8 | successes of our guests allowing us all to find our own version of high performance |
1:08.6 | so let's welcome Dr Chris to the show. |
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