Chris van Tulleken on Ultra-Processed Food
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The Influence of Corporations on Public Health and Nutrition
This chapter examines the intricate ties between food and beverage giants and the sports sector, focusing on the implications of their sponsorships on nutrition and public health. The discussion highlights the marketing strategies targeting children and the relationships among the food, alcohol, and tobacco industries in shaping health policies.
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Elon
Speaker 1
Musk and other tech titans have released a letter calling for a temporary ban on the development of AI, citing concerns that we might inadvertently create an intelligence that actually outsmarts humans. What do you make of
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this letter? I think the letter is misplaced at the moment for a number of reasons. One is I think that it ignores the potential benefits of AI, which I don't think it would be right to arrest to stop. Secondly, I think in practice, I don't think it is feasible to stop the development of AI when we know that increasing computing power is something that inextrably has been deployed for decades from the dawn of computing. I think a better approach would have been to call for governments and regulators around the world to take seriously and to accelerate the development of appropriate regulation
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and also to work with each other. The EU is taking a much more measured and one could say more cautious approach. Last week, Italy temporarily banned chat GPT over data breach concerns. Why is the
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UK taking a different approach?
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I think the government is taking the right approach in not rushing to close down the application of a technology that has not proved itself to be fatal to any important aspects of life. At the moment, there are risks there. It is true, but recognizing that regulation does need to go beyond what is currently there, but not to press even if it were possible to do so. The emergency stop button. I don't think that's possible. I don't think it's desirable.
5x15 is delighted to welcome leading science broadcaster and doctor Chris van Tulleken for a special online event in January, fresh from delivering the Royal Institution's prestigious Christmas Lectures.
Chris's latest book Ultra-Processed People was a Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller upon publication last year, and it was widely hailed as a 'Book of the Year' and a ground-breaking intervention in the food world. It has, quite simply, changed the conversation around what we eat.
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, food which is industrially processed and designed and marketed to be addictive. But do we really know what it's doing to our bodies?
Ultra-Processed People follows Chris through the world of food science to discover what's really going on. It's 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.
Don't miss the chance to hear Chris van Tulleken share his expert insights into food, health and the issues that affect us all, live in conversation with food campaigner, cross-bench peer and 5x15 co-founder Rosie Boycott.
Praise for Ultra-Processed People
'[Chris van Tulleken] is starting a really important revolution and conversation around what we eat. Books come along once in a while, once every couple of years, once in a generation that meet culture at the exact moment…it's these books that end up changing the world.' - STEVEN BARTLETT
'If you only read one diet or nutrition book in your life, make it this one.' - BEE WILSON
‘Incendiary and infuriating, this book is a diet grenade; the bold and brutal truth about how we are fed deadly delights by very greedy evil giants’ - CHRIS PACKHAM
'A devastating, witty and scholarly destruction of the shit food we eat and why.' - ADAM RUTHERFORD
Chris van Tulleken is an infectious diseases doctor at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London. He trained in medicine at Oxford University, has a PhD in molecular virology from University College London where he is an Associate Professor and where his research focuses on how corporations affect human health, especially in the context of nutrition. He works closely with UNICEF and the World Health Organization in this area. His book Ultra-Processed People was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller. He is one of the BBC’s leading science broadcasters on television and radio for children and adults.
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