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, a broadcaster and the 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.
Are the chemicals involved in highly ultra-processed foods damaging our gut biome, or is it the consequences of micro plastics from food containers and packaging? Or is it both? You can find out more in this informative chat between two leading experts in the colorectal and infectious diseases fields.