Dr. Xand van Tulleken
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1,476 appearances
9 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6d ago
Dr. Xand van Tulleken’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it is actually not.
If you lived in a different place in a different country, you might not be sitting in that chair, not exercising.
And so it's worth casting our minds out.
And also who around you is not exercising and how could we look after them?
So I feel like you're very persuasive about exercise.
Food is another one, though, and possibly exercise.
Even more, this is an area where people really invoke personal responsibility and they say, look, Zand, you're off to the bakery again.
Just don't eat as much cake.
It is a choice.
So can you talk to us about why that attitude to overweight, obesity and food-related ill health is wrong?
It's around a pound a day, typically.
Per child.
I would underline what Devi's saying here, that one of the issues we see is that there aren't warning labels on unhealthy food in this country.
A lot of unhealthy food is sold to us as healthy.
It has health claims on it, along with cartoon characters.
There is marketing of unhealthy food to children and adults.
We see it on our screens, and there are many places where adults...
Even if they wanted to buy fresh fruit and veg, even if they had fridges to store it in and equipment to cook it with, they simply may not be able to buy it.
If they don't have a car, they can't get to a big supermarket.
The convenience stores don't sell healthy food.
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