Ultra processed food is cheap, tasty, and more widely available than ever before - but what are the consequences for our health?

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This Discourse was recorded at the Ri on 22 November 2024.

Chris's last lecture at the Ri has had over 1 million views ([ Ссылка ]) and now he's back to talk about what's happened to our food system, why we're in the third age of eating, and what we can do to fix it.

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Chris van Tulleken is our 2024 Christmas Lecturer, continuing a nearly 200 year old tradition of bringing science to young people. Chris's lectures on 'The truth about food' will be on BBC Four on the 29, 30, and 31 December at 9pm, and on iPlayer from 29 December, for those in the UK. We'll upload them to YouTube on 31 December for everyone outside the UK. Find out more here: [ Ссылка ]

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Chris van Tulleken is an NHS infectious diseases doctor at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London, one of the UK’s leading science presenters and a New York Times bestselling author. He is currently an Associate Professor in the division of Infection and Immunity at UCL, where his research focuses on how corporations affect human health, especially in the context of child nutrition, and he works with UNICEF and the World Health Organisation.

Following on from the success of his BBC One series ‘The Doctor Who Gave Up Drugs’, Chris investigated the impact ultra-processed foods has on our children, in ‘What Are We Feeding Our Kids?’ for BBC One. In 2023, Chris published ‘Ultra Processed People’, which became an international bestseller and his corresponding talk at the Ri has over 1 million views on YouTube.


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