From A Royal Institution of Great Britain lecture | Dr Chris van Tulleken on FOOD

The harsh reality of ultra processed food - with Chris Van Tulleken

 Is Diet Coke REALLY that healthy? 

Whilst its label might be full of green indicators, how healthy are its raw ingredients? Will drinking Diet Coke help you lose weight?

Join award-winning broadcaster, practising NHS doctor and leading academic Chris van Tulleken as he explores the invention of Ultra Processed Foods.

Royal Institution of Great Britain

Well it scared the heck out of me . . . the whole lecture is worth checking out as before despair at what to do in the face of such processing and food fascism overtakes us what CAN we do to combat it!?

We're in a new age of eating, but how is ultra processed food harming our bodies - and the world?

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00:00 Why we need to talk about our diets

03:40 We’re part of an experiment we didn’t sign up for

10:05 What is ultra processed food?

12:50 What Donald Trump got right about UPF

14:20 What Diet Coke does to your health

17:53 How ultra processed food is made

23:55 Why does ultra processed food cause obesity?

29:05 Doesn’t exercise burn calories?

35:37 What about willpower and diet?

38:18 What role do stress and genes play?

39:45 How does ultra processed food harm us?

47:33 How UPF affects the planet

50:41 Ultra processed food is addictive

52:25 The food system is financialised

54:28 What are the solutions? This lecture was filmed at the Ri on 19 September 2023 through the generous support of Digital Science.

This lecture was filmed at the Ri on 19 September 2023 through the generous support of Digital Science.

Personal note: he cites the thinking behind Alan Carr’s Easy Way To Stop Smoking the ONLY way I found out how to stop after 47 years and an addiction that proved to be the last one and now over ten years free from my addiction to nicotine (smokers please note) I cannot recommend highly enough. Its called de-programming, changing your way of thinking if you wil allowl, stopping being brainwashed if you will!? 

Of course this now leads me to look at what I eat as I am diagnosed amongst other things a type II diabetic!

I say again: 

 This started the beejayzus outta me and tis worth a long long look . . . . . .and listen to what we can do about it . . .the shortened version depressed me but the whole lecture is really worthwhile staying with in terms of what on earth (sic) we are doing to what we EAT!