What I’m about to share is fascinating and horrifying at the same time… It comes from a Good Life Letter reader, who read one of my emails about Ultra Processed Food (handily abbreviated to ‘UPF’). They sent me a link to a fascinating article by food writer Chris Van Tulleken, in which he gave up all UPFs for a month and diarised what happened. Now, if you missed my recent letters on this subject, the gist of the matter is…
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• Is this the worst ever breakfast cereal? • The 2 ingredients that make sugar more addictive • The food type that causes chronic disease I hate to do the ‘when I were a lad’ stuff. My kids cringe whenever I started talking about the old days. And fair enough! I’m not a fan of phoney nostalgia, and I try not to see the past with rose tinted glasses. Take food, for instance. There are so many delicious, exciting foods…
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• England have announced a new law for gene-edited food • The dark and worrying side of this latest development • Why it could make your fruit and veg less healthy (and worse)… England have changed its laws to allow gene-edited food to be developed and sold! The government claims this will create more jobs and improve food production. But environmental concerns are keeping this from being allowed in other parts of the UK like Wales and Scotland. You might…
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I am not surprised by this food tsar’s resignation Why diet related disease will cost us all in the end, no matter how healthy we try to be How to escape the media mind-warp Well, there we have it. Last Monday, Henry Dimbleby, the government’s food tsar, resigned from his position. He complained that the government’s approach to tackling obesity “makes no sense”. And honestly, I am not shocked in the slightest. Dimbleby co-founded the food chain Leon and has…
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This latest food corporation story is utterly absurd! Why we shouldn’t trust the Milkybar makers to make us slimmer The real causes of our national health crisis Imagine this… A multi-national corporation decides to create a new product. It’s a biscuit that EXPLODES in your hand. All over the world, people are losing their limbs in catastrophic mini-explosions. “Never fear!” says the corporation. “We have the answer to this crisis.” The world waits with baited breath. What could that answer…
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A strange tale about coffee… did goats really discover this classic drink? The pros and cons of this contentious beverage The power of mushroom coffee It was a moonlit night in Yemeni, many centuries ago… An old goat herder was in a field, watching his flock. But he was perturbed… The goats were jumping around in a most unusual frenzy and would not settle or sleep. What on earth was wrong with them? The next day, the herder asked an…
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