Replay: Ultra-Processed People with Dr Chris van Tulleken

Power Hour

Adrienne Herbert

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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As Adrienne reflects on 6 years of the Power Hour, we are going to share some of our favourite episodes from the archives on Thursdays.

Today we're sharing April 2023's episode all about Ultra-processed food, with guest Dr Chris van Tulleken. Since this episode Chris has been on a mission to get us discussing our diets and making positive healthy changes, and the phrase ultra-processed food has become common parlance!

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Adrienne is joined by the wonderful Dr Chris van Tulleken to discuss his new book Ultra-Processed People. In the book Dr Chris discusses how 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?

Dr Chris van Tulleken is an infectious disease doctor at University College London Hospitals, and a Medical Research Council clinical research fellow at University College London in the Greg Towers lab, where he studies viral evolution and HIV. He has worked with aid organisations around the world over the past 10 years, including Doctors of the World. He also presents a range of programmes for the BBC including the double-Bafta winning Operation Ouch!. He is on Twitter @DoctorChrisVT

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Power Hour. I'm Adrienne Herbert, wellness coach, international speaker and author.
0:10.0	Each week I speak to a variety of guests from business founders to Olympic athletes, leading coaches, change makers and innovators,
0:18.0	to find out their daily habits, their rules to live by and what motivates them
0:22.8	to get up out of bed each day. Personally, I am on a mission to encourage, motivate and inspire,
0:29.6	so I hope that the Power Hour will help you to achieve your personal and professional goals.
0:42.3	Welcome back to the Power Hour podcast. Today, I'm joined by Dr. Chris Van Tuliken. Chris is an infectious disease doctor at the hospital of tropical diseases in London.
0:47.4	He has a PhD in molecular virology from University College London, where he is an associate professor.
0:56.2	His research focuses on how corporations affect human health, especially in the context of nutrition. And today we're going to be
1:01.8	discussing his new book, Ultra Processed People. Why do we all eat stuff that isn't food and why
1:08.5	can't we stop? Now, I received an early copy of the book,
1:12.6	which I read in part on a very long flight to Japan last week. And the book is incredibly
1:18.1	impactful. And I can honestly say that as a result of reading, even just after reading the first
1:23.0	100 pages, I already started to make some conscious changes to my food purchases. So I'm particularly
1:30.0	interested in this conversation as someone who's worked in the well-being industry for 12 years now.
1:36.6	I have seen a lot of trends and topics shift from certain diets and the impact of food on
1:42.3	athletic performance, sleep, mood and even life
1:46.0	longevity. So as someone I'm always reading, listening and learning, I love it when I find a
1:52.4	piece of work that makes me stop, question and even reconsider some of my own beliefs about
1:57.8	health and well-being. So let's get into today's episode. Chris, welcome
2:02.8	to the podcast. It's such a pleasure to be here. We've got so much to talk about. I'm really,
2:08.3	I'm not sure we can do this in one hour, but we'll do our best. I think the best place to start
2:12.9	actually would be to discuss, so the title of the book, Ultra Process People, I'd really love if you could define for us what ultra processed food is,
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