Chris van Tulleken is an infectious disease specialist at the London Hospital for Tropical Diseases and a professor at University College. In his latest interviews this doctor has generated debate after stating that ultra-processed foods They should receive the same treatment as cigarettes.
He is also a presenter on the BBC and author of «Ultraprocessed People: Why we eat things that are not food, and why we can’t stop eating them‘. A bestseller who has received several awards, he immersed himself fully in the world of ultra-processed foods, and understood that some of his prejudices about their fats and sugar were naive compared to reality.
He decided to do a field test on himself and began eating a diet based solely on ultra-processed foods. In an interview with BBC News Brazil, Van Tulleken has warned about the need to put a stop to the colonization of these foods in our diet. The temptation is too great for most to resist. And if something is not done about it They can destroy traditional cuisine.
An eye-opening experience
Formulas as a palliative for famines in the Third World were his first experience in the world of food. As he investigated, he discovered how companies in the name of profits were able to play with our health. His work at the BBC and his study of childhood obesity brought him closer to ultra-processed foods.
A Brazilian study took him by the hand to learn what he now knows about the food industry. It became his ‘late motive’ and he understood that Everything that generates money for large companies, such as Nestlé or Pepsico, falls into the realm of ultra-processed foods.
He discovered that the world’s largest cigarette companies, such as RJ Reynolds, bought Nabisco, a huge food company, and Philip Morris (of the tobacco industry) bought General Foods (food company).
«We are talking about the same conglomerates, although these companies have been dismembered and changed hands in the following decades. They use the same molecules tested in the laboratory for cigarettes, as flavorings, in food. “They use the same marketing techniques and distribution networks to sell addictive and harmful foods, just as they did with cigarettes,” the doctor told the BBC.
Hence I conclude that The food industry sells us foods that make us fat because it has to.. «It is the only way they have to obtain benefits. “They need to sell foods that lead to excessive consumption, to exaggeration, in order to make more and more money,” he says.
Allergic to advice, he says the problem is not with the people, but with a system that has given too much power to food megacorporations. And reveals that the data shows that 65% of the members of a committee that advises what to eat have received money from large food industries. When he spent the day eating this type of food, he saw how his quality of life was reduced. And he points out that the only way to eliminate ultra-processed foods is to hate them, only then will you be alert to them.
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