Ultra-Processed People af Chris Van Tulleken (Bog)

Forfatter: Chris Van Tulleken
Sprog: Engelsk
Antal sider: 0
Forlag: Penguin Group
Udgivelsesår: 2024
Chosen by the SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, FT and DAILY MAIL as one of their BEST SUMMER BOOKS OF 2023 'If you only read one diet or nutrition book in your life, make it this one' Bee Wilson 'A devastating, witty and scholarly destruction of the shit food we eat and why' Adam Rutherford --- An eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and production of ultra-processed food. It's not you, it's the food. We have entered a new 'age of eating' where most of our calories come from an entirely novel set of substances called Ultra-Processed Food, food which is industrially processed and designed and marketed to be addictive. But do we really know what it's doing to our bodies? Join Chris in his travels through the world of food science and a UPF diet to discover what's really going on. Find out why exercise and willpower can't save us, and what UPF is really doing to our bodies, our health, our weight, and the planet (hint: nothing good). For too long we've been told we just need to make different choices, when really we're living in a food environment that makes it nigh-on impossible. So this is a book about our rights. The right to know what we eat and what it does to our bodies and the right to good, affordable food.
Titel: Ultra-Processed People
Udgave: Paperback edition, with new chapter

Sammendrag: Bogen følger Chris van Tullekens undersøgelse af, hvordan ultra-forarbejdet mad (UPF) er blevet dominerende i den vestlige kost, og hvad det gør ved krop og samfund. Gennem et eget kosteksperiment, interviews med forskere og analyser af fødevareindustriens praksis viser han, hvordan ingredienslister fulde af tilsætningsstoffer, emulgatorer, smagsforstærkere og kunstige sødemidler ændrer sult, mæthed, hormoner og adfærd. Han beskriver forbindelser til fedme, metaboliske sygdomme, psykisk trivsel og børns udvikling samt miljømæssige konsekvenser. Samtidig diskuteres politiske og økonomiske strukturer, der gør UPF svært at undgå, især for travle familier og lavindkomstgrupper. Bogen giver læseren redskaber til at genkende UPF, forstå forskellen på minimalt forarbejdet mad og industrielt formulerede produkter, og sætter personlige madvaner ind i en større samfundsmæssig og global kontekst.
Type: Paperback