Ultra processed foods and the third age of eating - with Chris van Tulleken

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  @Thorsten00 · 1 year ago

  "You cannot solve a problem that you profit from creating" - pure gold!

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• MH

  @mh9563 · 1 year ago

  Chris VT please start a uk petition for UPF labelling.

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• KO

  @Kodack-ki2im · 1 year ago

  How I cut out a huge chunk of processed foods, salt, sugar, fat, and chemicals from my life. I started baking my own sourdough bread from scratch. Just 3 ingredients, water, flour, salt. It's lower calorie than the store bought stuff. It tastes far better than store bought bread.  It takes minimal effort to make and bake it once I got my routine down. The only real downside is shelf life in that without all the preservatives, the bread will go stale and start to get mold after several days. But there is an easy solution to that; I slice my bread and freeze what I can't immediately use. As I need more bread, I just take it out and put it in the toaster, or microwave, or let it thaw. The best part is I can tailor the bread flour to my own needs, such as using high gluten flour for more protein, and adding in whole wheat flour, and whole rye flour to add flavor and fiber.  In addition to baking bread, I changed my diet to consist of mostly just a few kinds of whole foods. I eat eggs, un processed meats, fruits, and vegetables, and I use butter, avocado oil, salt, no salt substitute, herbs, spices, and acids, for flavor. I've lost 65lbs this year while eating the best food I have my entire life.

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• BO

  @borkobartonicek3947 · 1 year ago

  In a nutshell... Craft your food as much as possible, don't let others craft it for you.

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• HG

  @hgrace0 · 1 year ago

  I’m very happy that we have someone committed to finding out and educating us about the food system

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• TI

  @tinymouse.travel · 1 year ago

  After watching all three of the Christmas Lectures, what a treat to find this talk aimed at adults. Highly recomend watching both if you have access

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  @BnTjr89 · 1 year ago

  I've seen this guy a lot recently.  I'd love to see RI make a panel with this guy and Giles Yeo (who's already lectured at the RI at least twice) who approaches the same issue from a much more genetic mechanistic angle.  I remember Giles talking about how a lot of the genes associated with overeating are behavioral genes in animals.  I think it would be interesting to seehow their ideas interact.

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  @JadeDragon407 · 1 year ago

  It also doesn't help that the food industry feeds big pharma, and the massive array of drugs that so many are on prescriptions for at least here in the US, nor does it help that the corporations in both sectors are in the pockets of legislative officials who write the laws.

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  @MercianNeil · 1 year ago (edited)

  What a great lecture! Much the best version of the various appearances I&apos;ve seen Chris van Tulleken do about UPFs.<br>As a keen user of the Zoe nutrition app for a couple of years I am delighted to be far healthier than I have been for quite some time.

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  @lizedbf7334 · 1 year ago

  Can we compare the addiction to processed food with the tabacco addiction? I can only speek for myself and for me the addiction to processed food is impossible to overcome. I have successfully stopped smoking and this craving is no longer a factor in my life. Unfortunately i again and again lose the battle with processed food. I am bouncing from a weight of 60kg to 100kg and back for my entire adult life. At this moment i am 60 years old and i have started my fight against processed food again in the hope to lose 40kg of fat in the coming year. I do hope that this 20th attempt will this time be successful for the rest of my life.

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  @someoneinmyhead · 1 year ago

  Great talk, indeed, even cooking takes energy and is a good source of joy that&apos;s long forgotten by many humans

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  @ConradPino · 1 year ago

  Thank you for hosting this speaker!

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