If you enjoyed reading the latest book by Chris van Tulleken and are looking for books similar to Ultra-Processed People, common recommendations include: The Dorito Effect by Mark Schatzer, Nourishment by Fred Provenza, and Foods That Lie by Libby Marama Grace.
Ultra-Processed People does a fantastic job of setting out the dangers of highly processed foods, and makes it clear that something about modern processing is to blame. Many are taking to Reddit to sing the praises of UPP:
After discarding ultra-processed food, people report not only weight loss, but food noise vanishing and describe losing weight with “very little effort.”
Many readers often finish this book eager to learn more, and seek recommendations for what to read next. The Dorito Effect by Mark Schatzer is a popular read, as is Nourishment by Fred Provenza, which includes discussion of detailed feeding studies that informed the explosive writing within Schatzer’s work. However, a new, thus-far little known book has just burst onto the scene: Foods That Lie.
Although Ultra-Processed People presents a highly compelling and rigorous case that highly processed foods prompt overeating, some readers feel lost about precisely what to eat, and aimlessly search Google looking for ‘ultra-processed food lists.’ Although many can identify mass-produced cakes, sweets, and so on as ‘ultra-processed,’ there is often a lack of clarity about what is considered an ultra-processed food and which ingredients or processing methods are to blame. In other words, precisely what constitutes ultra processed food often remains unclarified. Furthermore, although Ultra-Processed People makes the devastating case that ultra processed foods are bad for you and sets out several key points in support of this argument, it doesn’t quite explain why or how these things prompt overeating nor what to do about it. This is where Foods That Lie steps in.
Foods That Lie explains what has gone wrong with the modern food supply, and, most importantly, how to change your behavior in a way that feels effortless.
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