New book ‘Ultra Processed People’ is an eye-opening look at why we eat food that isn’t really food
When one of the most basic human impulses, hunger, arises in the 21st century, the question of “What shall I eat” is often answered by scrolling through glowing food delivery apps on our phones, or selecting brightly labelled pre-prepared items at the grocery store.
Tulleken, a practising infectious disease doctor, compares the world dominance of UPF to the ascendancy of some bacteria over others. Tulleken’s critique of UPF turns this mode of evaluation on its head, arguing that rather than the reductionist project of isolating out the “good” and “bad” components of foodwe need to shift our focus to the degree of processing, industrial manipulation and marketing of what we eat. These may be the most powerful determinants of food’s health impact.
The most alarming chapter, which could have been an alternate title for the book, is titled “How UPF hacks our brains.” Some of the highlights: since UPF is soft, calorie-dense and convenient, we eat more of it than we would of other foods.
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