Dr. Chris Palmer
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6 recordings
6 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 3 Jul
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dietary guidelines to date don't mention ultra-processed foods.
They don't mention all of these artificial ingredients because the assumption is they don't matter.
The assumption is just make sure you get enough calories, try to minimize saturated fat, maybe minimize sugar somewhat, less than 10% of your calories from sugar, which is a lot still.
10% of your nutrition from sugar is a lot of sugar.
But they don't even mention the impact of these other substances on human health.
And, you know, in their defense, I think 30 years ago,
Nobody seemed to be aware of much of this.
There were very few people, if any, who were really rigorously researching this and really fully understood what is this.
But now we have more than ample evidence, epidemiological evidence, basic science evidence, animal studies, all sorts of things, numerous lines of evidence to all support this conclusion that these foods are bad for us.
And I think, again, the thing that I really want to drill home for people is that they affect human health broadly.
Yes, they play a role in overweight or obesity.
Yes, they play a role in heart disease.
Yes, they play a role in diabetes and blood sugars.
But let's not forget the brain.
That's the tricky thing.
Because what I'm arguing is that in the same way that eating these foods or too much of these foods can drive your heart to actually become pathologically compromised to the point of you potentially having a heart attack,
It can cause your liver to fill up with fat, which impairs its function.
It can cause kidney problems.
It can cause immune system dysfunction.
In the way that all of those different organs are beginning to malfunction, the confusing thing to a lot of people is the brain.
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