In this episode, Chris and Xand turn their attention to food. It’s January, and many of us have resolved to “eat better” but ...

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British children are being ‘fed to death’ on ultra-processed foods that are engineered to cause harm, MPs have been warned. Professor Chris van Tulleken, a TV doctor and global health expert, said ...

Joining them to discuss this is Dr Jo Blodgett, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health at University College London. She’s a life-course epidemiologist whose work ...

When TV presenter Joe Wicks decided to create a parody version of a common ultra-processed food, or UPF, for a new Channel 4 documentary, it didn’t take him long to conclude that a protein bar was the ...

Joining them to discuss this is Dr May van Schalkwyk, Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, who focuses on how commercial actors influence ideas, knowledge, science and policymaking. If you ...

A giant mug of instant black coffee and no food is not what you'd expect the host of a wellness podcast to have for breakfast. Yet it's what Dr Chris van Tulleken, who hosts the BBC's What's Up Docs ...

Welcome to What’s Up Docs?, the podcast where doctors and identical twins Chris and Xand van Tulleken untangle the confusion ...

Dr Chris van Tulleken is best known as the doctor who scared the world about its consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPF), with his book, Ultra-Processed People, quickly becoming a bestseller. As ...

There has been a lot of discussion about the public health impact of ultra-processed foods in recent times. First Chris Van ...