
There are people saying that ultra-processed is bad and we need to eat mainly and more natural food. Our ancestors ate this natural food and the human species evolved eating natural food and we only started to ultra-process it only recently so it is not so good.
This Discourse was recorded by Chris van Tulleken at the Royal Institution on 22nd November 2024. Following on from the success of his BBC One series ‘The Doctor Who Gave Up Drugs’, Chris investigated the impact ultra-processed foods has on our children, in ‘What Are We Feeding Our Kids?’ for BBC One. In 2023, Chris published ‘Ultra Processed People’, which became an international bestseller and his corresponding talk at the Ri has over 1 million views on YouTube, and now he's back to talk about what's happened to our food system, why we're in the third age of eating, and what we can do to fix it. Chris van Tulleken is the Royal Institution 2024 Christmas Lecturer, continuing a nearly 200 year old tradition of bringing science to young people.
Chris van Tulleken is an NHS infectious diseases doctor at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London, one of the UK’s leading science presenters and a New York Times bestselling author. He is currently an Associate Professor in the division of Infection and Immunity at UCL, where his research focuses on how corporations affect human health, especially in the context of child nutrition, and he works with UNICEF and the World Health Organisation.