THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023AN
ECONOMIST DAILY MAIL GOOD HOUSEKEEPING and AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR
WATERSTONE'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR FORTNUM & MASON'S DEBUT FOOD BOOK OF THE YEAR
2024Chosen 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. The Number 1 Sunday Times bestseller August 2023
