Our Chair, Professor Sir Neil Mortensen, speaks to TV’s Dr Chris van Tulleken about the rise of ultra-processed food and its possible impact on bowel cancer rates.
Dr Chris van Tulleken is an Associate Professor at UCL, broadcaster and author of Sunday Times bestseller Ultra Processed People. Prof. Sir Neil spoke to Chris about how industrial food processing is impacting our health to unravel some of the potential causes for the rising bowel cancer rates in younger people.
Is it the chemicals involved in highly ultra processed foods that are damaging our guy biome or the chemicals in the plastics they typically are packaged and cooked in? Or is it both. Find out more in this informative chat between two leading experts in the coloerectal and infectious diseases fields.