Dr. Xand van Tulleken
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1,476 appearances
9 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5d ago
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How can these things be our responsibility?
That's a reasonable point, isn't it?
We don't choose the air we breathe or the water we drink.
But the headline said 80% of our ill health in old age.
It didn't say 100%.
So, sure, maybe it's hard to change the air you breathe or the water that you drink, but you could do all kinds of things to improve your health, couldn't you?
That other 80% really should be our responsibility, and we can make choices that are good or bad for us.
So, for instance, this morning...
I had a choice on what to have for breakfast and I got up early and I headed to the bakery.
And Chris, what I was particularly interested in, Hay-on-Wye has got some superb bakeries, was a particular kind of Breton butter cake.
Sand, the Breton butter cakes in Hay-on-Wye are not the reason that a majority of us are living with death and disease due to poor diet in the UK.
Artisanal bakeries are not driving a public health crisis.
Now, it's worth saying that the butter lamination is the key issue, Chris.
The sugar and the butter caramelise.
Technically, it's called a Queen Amand.
Zand, they are not deliberately engineering food that you can't stop eating.
They're making food with love and purpose forever.
for probably relatively small profit margins.
The point is that what is driving the epidemic is a thousand other factors about our environment, the food environment that we live in, the price of food, the fact that unhealthy food is sold as healthy, the constant marketing and availability of food that does us harm.
So your little trip to the bakery is not part of the problem, Zand.
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