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Ultra-Processed People: Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food
by Chris van Tulleken
I didn’t think I was going to be moved by this book in any way. I simply decided to read it because I’d seen someone else review it, and I thought it was interesting.
What I liked the most about this book is that the author doesn’t tell you to follow a diet; throughout the course of the book, he simply explains to you what you’re eating.
What I didn’t expect it to do was build a subconscious new habit. I’ve lived in the UK for a year now, and after reading this book, I decided to buy groceries (I specifically put off buying groceries for the week because I wanted to see how this book holds up). Each time I picked something up, I flipped it over to see what it was made of.
A loaf of bread that, to my eyes, looked “healthy” because it had, in big bold letters, “wholewheat bread with seeds” written on it had guar gum and roughly 10 other ingredients. A tub of butter had 15 other ingredients, with vegetable oil as its second ingredient. A jar of peanut butter listed palm oil as its second ingredient.
Yikes.
It definitely made me realise that most of what you see in grocery stores is industrially produced edible products and less so, food.
What I liked the most about this book is that the author doesn’t tell you to follow a diet; throughout the course of the book, he simply explains to you what you’re eating.
What I didn’t expect it to do was build a subconscious new habit. I’ve lived in the UK for a year now, and after reading this book, I decided to buy groceries (I specifically put off buying groceries for the week because I wanted to see how this book holds up). Each time I picked something up, I flipped it over to see what it was made of.
A loaf of bread that, to my eyes, looked “healthy” because it had, in big bold letters, “wholewheat bread with seeds” written on it had guar gum and roughly 10 other ingredients. A tub of butter had 15 other ingredients, with vegetable oil as its second ingredient. A jar of peanut butter listed palm oil as its second ingredient.
Yikes.
It definitely made me realise that most of what you see in grocery stores is industrially produced edible products and less so, food.