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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

CHAPTER

The Effects of Foods on Health

A good rule of thumb is if a food has a health claim written on the packet, it's almost certainly after a process. With any one food, you can't really talk about it being a healthy food or an unhealthy food with any single product. As a category of food, the evidence is extremely clear. If your dietary pattern includes 60% of your calories from UPF, what we are really sure about is that that is strongly associated with long list of negative health outcomes. So let's come back to what effect these foods have on us and find out why they're bad for us.

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