What ultra-processed foods really do to our bodies, with Chris van Tulleken

The Liz Earle Wellbeing Show

Liz Earle

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🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Did you know that ultra-processed foods (UPFs) make up 60% of the average UK diet? Chris van Tulleken joins Liz on this episode to lift the lid on how UPFs are really affecting our bodies.

The leading academic, award winning broadcaster and practising NHS doctor reveals why exercise and willpower can’t always prevent ill health - and why it’s often actually down to what we’re eating instead.

Liz and Chris discuss what responsibility policy makers need to take to provide alternative ways for us to eat. The episode also covers the definition of UPFs, what to look out for on ingredient labels and Chris' month-long experiment of eating a diet made up of 80% UPFs.

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0:00.0	So, one of the features of ultra-pressure food is its soft.
0:04.0	Soft food, and most UPF is soft and dry, we consume it quickly because it's very energy
0:10.1	dense.
0:11.1	It is often sugary and fatty and there's no water in it.
0:13.6	We consume calories at a rate that our bodies can't keep up with so we don't get the fullness
0:19.7	signal from our gut until we've already eaten too much.
0:23.2	And some people think the food is so, it's been so disintegrated before we eat it.
0:28.5	He's actually digested before it gets to the bit of the gut that releases the hormones
0:32.4	that tell us to stop eating.
0:34.2	Well, that's the voice of leading academic award-winning broadcaster and practicing
0:41.6	NHS doctor Chris Van Tulliken.
0:44.5	He is lifting the lid on how ultra-processed food, UPFs, are really affecting our bodies.
0:52.1	This is the Lizzle, well-being show, the podcast helping us all to have a better second
0:57.2	half.
0:58.2	I'm Lizzle and I'm on a bit of a mission to find ways for us all to thrive in later life
1:03.8	by investing in our health and our wellbeing today.
1:07.5	Well, ultra-processed foods, UPFs, as we'll refer to them from here on in, now make up 60%
1:15.3	or more of the average diet in the UK and we consume a shocking eight kilograms of additives.
1:22.4	A year, eight kilos, just of additives, that is massive.
1:27.0	Well, Chris has written an absolutely brilliant, but in many ways, petrifying
1:31.8	book called ultra-processed people, examining what UPFs are really doing to our bodies.
1:39.0	If you feel that you just can't stop eating these kinds of foods, then you might not be to blame.
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