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‘Soft and calorie dense’: Chris van Tulleken on how ultra-processed foods keep us ho…

12/19/2024 • 18 min

Dr Chris van Tulleken has been at the forefront of the campaign to change our food system and better regulate the sale of ultra-processed foods (UPF). This year he will be giving the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, Britain’s most prestigious public science lectures, in which he’ll be investigating how food has fundamentally shaped human evolution, the impo… Play episode

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