Although a lot of the science in this book was way beyond me, it is brilliant.
Written by a fairly well-known TV medic, it is an invective against ultra-processed food, and the way in which capitalist consumerism distorts fairly obvious basic choices (breastfeeding) and successfully imposes highly profitable and fundamentally unhealthy alternatives on most of the world.
We don’t eat a lot of processed food in this house, but if I felt negative about McDonald’s before reading this, I would never eat one again (intellectually, one of the difficulties is actually identifying UPF; saccharin gets bad coverage in this book, although I use it all the time as a sugar substitute in tea).
Brilliant and very challenging.
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