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Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken
Ultra-Processed People is published by Penguin Cornerstone in paperback at £10.99.

Chris van Tulleken

Ultra-Processed People

Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food… and Why Can’t We Stop?

Now with two bonus chapters including frequently asked questions.

The number one Sunday Times bestseller

Fortnum & Mason’s debut Food Book of the Year 2024

A Times and Sunday
Times
Science Book of the Year 2023.

As seen on Chris van Tulleken’s BBC documentary about ultra-processed foods, Irresistible: Why We Can’t Stop Eating

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 (UPF), 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.

“Clearly a brilliant book.” — James O’Brien.

“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.