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'If you only read one diet or nutrition book in your life, make it this one' Bee Wilson

'A devastating, witty and scholarly destruction of the shit food we eat and why' Adam Rutherford

An eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and production of ultra-processed food. It's not you, it's the food. We have entered a new 'age of eating' where most of our calories come from an entirely novel set of substances called Ultra-Processed Food, food which is industrially processed and designed and marketed to be addictive.

But do we really know what it's doing to our bodies? Join Chris in his travels through the world of food science and a UPF diet to discover what's really going on. Find out why exercise and willpower can't save us, and what UPF is really doing to our bodies, our health, our weight, and the planet (hint: nothing good). For too long we've been told we just need to make different choices, when really we're living in a food environment that makes it nigh-on impossible.

So this is a book about our rights. The right to know what we eat and what it does to our bodies and the right to good, affordable food.

Paperback
Publication: 2 May 2024, Penguin, Cornerstone
ISBN: 9781529160222

Extent: 416 pages

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Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop? by Chris van Tulleken

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      'If you only read one diet or nutrition book in your life, make it this one' Bee Wilson

      'A devastating, witty and scholarly destruction of the shit food we eat and why' Adam Rutherford

      An eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and production of ultra-processed food. It's not you, it's the food. We have entered a new 'age of eating' where most of our calories come from an entirely novel set of substances called Ultra-Processed Food, food which is industrially processed and designed and marketed to be addictive.

      But do we really know what it's doing to our bodies? Join Chris in his travels through the world of food science and a UPF diet to discover what's really going on. Find out why exercise and willpower can't save us, and what UPF is really doing to our bodies, our health, our weight, and the planet (hint: nothing good). For too long we've been told we just need to make different choices, when really we're living in a food environment that makes it nigh-on impossible.

      So this is a book about our rights. The right to know what we eat and what it does to our bodies and the right to good, affordable food.

      Paperback
      Publication: 2 May 2024, Penguin, Cornerstone
      ISBN: 9781529160222

      Extent: 416 pages

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