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Chris van Tulleken on how our ultra-processed diet is killing us

Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy

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The Allan Carr Method for Quitting an Addiction

I was eating an ultra processed food diet as part of an experiment at University College London, and I suddenly sat down to eat her fried chicken dinner and I could not eat it. And I'd been released from this addiction that I'd had for a very long time. So the proposal in the book is that we are all part of an experiments that we didn't volunteer for. We take all the risk in this experiment where new molecules and new combinations of old molecules are added to our food. We take the risk while the benefit is handed to a very small number of individuals who own these companies. My invitation to the reader is just eat these foods while you read. It's not going to

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