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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Most Replayed Moment: The Truth Behind "Healthy" Food Labels - Dr. Chris Van Tulleken

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this Moments episode, Dr. Chris Van Tulleken (the Junk Food Doctor) delves into the complexities of foods labelled as "healthy." He explores how certain food products, from diet sodas to breakfast cereals, might not be as beneficial as they're marketed to be, suggesting that the food industry's labelling tactics could influence consumer choices. Tune in to gain insight into how you can be more mindful of your food choices, starting today. Listen to the full episode here - Spotify: https://g2ul0.app.link/Vlc73NVEHUb Apple: https://g2ul0.app.link/fZJ9EW0EHUb Watch the Episodes On YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/%20TheDiaryOfACEO/videos Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.2

Rich people don't eat bad food because they don't want to eat bad food. And people without money eat bad food because they're forced to eat bad food.

0:37.9

And the cognitive dissonance that you and I were talking about, quite often we will find people with low incomes making quite cogent arguments about the food that they eat, appearing to side with the companies that are predating on them.

0:52.0

Because otherwise, how could you live with this dissonance in your life? Otherwise, you're just a powerless victim of transnational food

0:57.4

corporations. So I have almost no interest in personal responsibility. I think you, if you give

1:04.0

people technical knowledge and you give people income and opportunity, most people want to be

1:09.3

healthy and live good lives.

1:17.0

1970, the food environment changes. Can you tell me exactly how the food environment changed that caused multiple demographics to gain weight? There are two answers to that. One,

1:24.9

the sort of proximate reason is the invention of ultra-processed food. So the industrialization

1:30.4

of food supply. And you can talk about why that happened in a lot of different ways. Part of it was to,

1:35.0

you know, a booming population post-war. And these products were extremely convenient. They allowed

1:42.4

women to continue to be in the workplace.

1:44.6

Of course, women had entered the workplace in the war.

1:47.2

So there were a lot of things that were immediately appealing about these products.

1:51.0

TV dinners, Swanson TV dinners appear in the 50s.

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