Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

by Chris van Tulleken

Book Overview

It's not you, it's the food.

We have entered a new age of eating. For the first time in human history, most of our calories come from an entirely novel set of substances called Ultra-Processed Food. There's a long, formal scientific definition, but it can be boiled down to this: if it's wrapped in plastic and has at least one ingredient that you wouldn't find in your kitchen, it's UPF.

These products are specifically engineered to behave...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324036729
• ISBN13: 9781324036722
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

What you don’t know will kill you

The book has a lot of information and the author explains things in such a way that you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to understand it. The evidence is pretty incontrovertible and it all lines up in terms of when we all started to get fat and sick (and increasingly fatter and sicker) and when we started to consume this ‘not food’ in such vast quantities. I recommend you give it a read if you want to make evidence based choices about your diet and health.