Look, you can overthink it all you want, but taking the tooth bacteria thing when there aren't any human trials (and expecting it to actually work and prevent cavities forever) is daft. It's as simple as that, sorry! You got played! Happens to the best of us.

Is the concept of ultra-processed foods (UPF) useful?

Rob Percival, Mike Rayner, & Angry Chef discuss UPFs & what the term achieves.

Read all 9 letters here: tabledebates.org/letterbox/is-t…

Utter nonsense - COVID vaccine is in no way linked to cancer. No idea whether Aseem Malhotra is genuinely utterly ignorant about evidence assessment or has just embraced lucrative grift of disinformation, but cannot understand how GMC tolerate this...

The last round in the Letterbox series on UPFs is posted!

See what thoughts & takeaways Rob Percival, Mike Rayner, & Angry Chef shared in their final exchange.

Read here: tabledebates.org/letterbox/is-t…

The last round in the Letterbox series on UPFs is posted!

See what thoughts & takeaways Rob Percival, Mike Rayner, & Angry Chef shared in their final exchange.

Read here: tabledebates.org/letterbox/is-t…

The final part of this table debate series on UPF is now up. I am quite proud of my final letter, mostly because it gets across why I think UPF is such a ridiculous and damaging way to classify food. tabledebates.org/letterbox/is-t…

Round 2 of our Letterbox series on ultra-processed food is live!

Read the responses Rob Percival, Mike Rayner, & Angry Chef have written to each other here:
tabledebates.org/letterbox/is-t…

Our latest Letterbox series has launched!

Over the next couple weeks, Rob Percival, Mike Rayner, & Angry Chef will discuss the utility of the Ultra-Processed Food (UPF) concept.

The first round of letters are available here: tabledebates.org/letterbox/is-t…

Our latest Letterbox series has launched!

Over the next couple of weeks, Rob Percival, Mike Rayner, & Angry Chef will discuss the utility of the Ultra-Processed Food (UPF) concept.

The first round of letters are available here: tabledebates.org/letterbox/is-t…

Interesting: The BMJ uses a non-expert peer-reviewer (a Naturopath without any publications in the field) for a paper that it uses to demand wide-ranging changes in the food system.

How can one have trust in this system at all?

sorry but the price tags in this piece on how to eat healthier read like punchlines thetimes.co.uk/article/d554ce…

Lots of takes on this. Many are what people have anyway regardless of this paper, such is the general diet/nutrition discourse, and particularly around UPF.

For those of you interested in what an actual evidence-based approach to this paper looks like, buckle up🧵

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A young, hungry industry raked in billions to grow slaughter-free meat in giant tanks.

Could it fix our broken diets, repair a damaged planet, save us from ourselves?

I wrestled with that question for a year. For New York Times Opinion, here's what I learned.

nytimes.com/2024/02/09/opi…

A very measured and helpful discussion of #UPF

theconversation.com/ultra-processe…

Diet guru blasted for selling ultra-processed food.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

“Beware the mix of food and fear – the truth about ultra-processed foods is still emerging” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Doing a Ratner?

I wonder what it was that changed his mind?

Will we hear the same condemnation from the usual suspects?
- health claims & wrapped in plastic
- industry funded research to promote products
- very weak evidence base for beneficial effect

Nice to see Tim Spector has changed his mind on Ultra Processed Foods and launched one of his own.

marksandspencer.com/c/food-to-orde…