Dr Chris Van Tulleken: Why We Crave Junk Food and How to Stop

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Chris is doing gods work. What he is saying will be seen as some of the most important research and work around public health in our lifetimes. Keep doing what you’re doing Chris and thank you

Dr van Tulleken is a superb science communicator. He deserves a much wider audience.

Knowledgeable without being patronising , a rare skill.

I love this guy a lot, every time I wanna go eat ultraprocessed food, I watch him again and it made me stop to eat

As I listen to this, I'm making my daughter and her kids a lasagna. She is getting over covid. From start to finish I'm looking at many hours before it's ready. It's totally understandable why time-poor people opt for the same meal in a box.

I like Chris Van T, he speak s a lot of sense. Excellent interview, thank you.

Chris ,you are hope personified. legend !

Dr Chris van Tulleken is my hero! Such a clear and eloquent speaker. Another great interview. Thank you 😊

I live in Australia where we also have a health / obesity crisis. I recall spending a month in Rome with extended family many years ago. The entire time, everybody had smaller portions than what I was used to. Nobody snacked between meals. They ate their food slowly, putting their fork down between bites savouring their meals with the occasional glass of wine. My cousins children did not eat any ultra processed food. I saw “one” boiled lolly being eaten by a 5 year old. She asked for another one and her mother said “Basta”….(enough in Italian) I was shocked. They are all thin. Many go for slow walks after dinner. I also saw ice-cream being eaten once. It wasn’t in their freezer. They had to go and buy it. Everybody had 2 scoops. Not a large bowl full of icecream as I see being eaten here in Australia. They eat real food, Period. Where have we gone wrong?

Power to Dr. Chris. I've listened to him speak on this issue on a few videos. I personally love hearing about the inside of the food industry: such as Coke funding certain things, or when he read out the email from McDonalds etc... (sounds like they want to pay him so they can use it against him in the future). He's so right about the financial aspect of these issues. I always think about those top food scientists who put all their efforts into this manipulated bad food for a pay check. We all have to make a living i suppose, but id love to know how those guys really feel about their work (and what their kids eat). Keep shouting your message Dr. Chris.

Thank you excellent interview , I could listen to this guy all day , so interesting. We all need to wake up 😢

Fantastic podcast interviewing a wonderful man. I have learnt so much from him as a person who has been a lifelong sugar addict. I hope the new UK Government listens to him and is courageous enough to instigate real change. Just one note.When Chris talks about the microbiome being disrupted by emulsifiers, he doesn't make the point that 70% of serotonin that is a happiness hormone is made in that gut and that a leaky, inflamed gut cannot perform well, thus affecting the mental health that Jake was trying to understand.

I'm currently in Mexico on vacation. I am astonished at the rates of obesity and metabolic syndrome here...over 90% by my estimate. Supermarkets are full of non-food i.e. highly processed rubbish that doesn't even look like food to me. Everything is cooked in vegetable seed oils.

The interview was kind of all over the place but I've read his book and it is fantastic! He does such a good job of explaining UPFs and how they've become part of every meal. He does a wonderful job at exposing what drives food companies.

He has a world of information and is a true humanitarian. Whenever I see him being interviewed, I always listen. I don't know about the UK, but here in Canada you can also get his book - physical book, e-book and audiobook - at libraries. I wish he would mention that, to look in the library. I've got it out for a second time and am re-reading it, a fantastic book!

When I see Chris van Tulleken, I like, comment and subscribe!

I love listening to Dr. van Tulleken, thank you for this incredibly informative interview.

Eating healthy shouldn’t be difficult, but for some it is and it infuriates me that the food industry is so keen and ready to exploit that …just for profit!

Von Tulleken's story makes it patently if not painfully obvious. At the heart of just about everything is social equality or more exactly supportive stability with parents who do not have more children than they can love and remember the names of preferably in a stabile society where the do not have to move until they go to university or vocational school.