Step away from the Coco Pops! Put down that spoon! Put away that bowl! Last week author and associate professor Dr Chris van Tulleken held up a packet of the aforementioned cereal to the House of Lords select committee on food, diet and obesity, and argued that it, and other 'harmful' junk food, should be stripped of health claims and banned from advertising.He was one of a number of experts who spoke to Parliament about the blight of junk food, particularly when it comes to children. Dr van Tulleken accused the mass-produced food industry of acting in a similar way to big tobacco by selling addictive products which could be harmful.It's a subject he's written about in his latest book Ultra-processed People: Why Do We Eat Stuff That Isn't Food And Why Can't We Stop, which was serialised by the Daily Mail, and exposes the horrifying health effects — including type 2 , heart disease and — of junk food and the merciless tactics companies use to peddle their products to an unsuspecting public.
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