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

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

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/48Va311 Follow Chris: Instagram: https://bit.ly/491nqwz Twitter: https://bit.ly/46Ryafc Watch the episodes on Youtube - https://g2ul0.app.link/3kxINCANKsb My new book! 'The 33 Laws Of Business & Life' is out now: https://smarturl.it/DOACbook Follow me: Instagram: http://bit.ly/3nIkGAZ Twitter: http://bit.ly/3ztHuHm Linkedin: https://bit.ly/41Fl95Q Telegram: http://bit.ly/3nJYxST Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I ate a diet that's very normal for a British purse. I gained so much weight not in this vicious cycle of overeating anxiety
0:07.5	sleeplessness scanned my brain and if I continued for a year. I would have Dr. Chris Van Tolkin.
0:14.0	Dr. researcher and a bafter award-winning broadcaster.
0:17.0	Chris forensically examines the effects ultra-processed food have on us all.
0:21.0	75% of the calories that are consumed globally come from six companies.
0:26.0	Food mafia.
0:27.0	They are controlling our food and what we eat.
0:29.0	Engineered to be consumed to excess.
0:32.0	Whether it's a burger from a fast food chain or
0:33.9	of supermarket bread everything is adjusted so that things become
0:37.3	irresistible. And a pandemic of diet-related disease has taken over the world.
0:41.7	One in five people in this country get 80% of their calories for
0:45.2	ultra processed food.
0:46.2	Poor diet has overtaken tobacco as the leading cause of early death on planet Earth.
0:51.2	And at the age of five, kids in this country will be that much shorter
0:55.2	nine centimeters compared to other countries and it is all dying.
0:58.9	Now you can't stunt a body by nine centimeters and not also stun them intellectually.
1:03.6	Why don't we just all make better choices?
1:05.2	I have almost no interest in personal responsibility.
1:08.2	This is about social justice.
1:09.6	And people without money, they're forced to eat bad food.
1:12.3	If you've got rid of poverty, you would get rid of around 60% of the problem of diet related disease.
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