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BACK in August last year, I received an email I'd been dreading. It was from a senior director at McDonald's. I'd been anticipating trouble because a few months earlier I'd published a book, Ultra-Processed People, about the vast and growing body of evidence that a diet high in ultra-processed food (UPF) is damaging to human health. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IF YOU were watching the Paris Olympics and saw a winning athlete cross the finish line, light a cigarette and boast about the health-boosting benefits of their favourite tobacco brand, you'd be as surprised as you were disgusted. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

NORMALLY, I wouldn't have Coco Pops for breakfast. But they seemed a good choice when I embarked on a month-long scientific experiment. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

NoRmALLY, I wouldn't have Coco Pops for breakfast. But they seemed a good choice when I embarked on a month-long scientific experiment. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ULTRA-PROCESSED foods (or UPFs) make up a shocking 60 per cent of the average diet in the UK - and increasing evidence links their high consumption with the rise in obesity, type 2 diabetes and other diseases. Here, in the second part of our serialisation of his new book which started in yesterday's Daily Mail, TV doctor Chris van Tulleken warns of the hidden dangers behind food which we find so tasty. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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A s an infectious diseases doctor at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, which is part of a large teaching hospital I see patients with infections — and I also study viruses in the lab at the university next door. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MY TWIN brother Xand is a perfect genetic copy of me. So I know, because I've been tested, that he and I share a gene that predisposes us to putting on weight. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

After 20 years of being a doctor and a decade of broadcasting on health issues, I've come to realise that giving people advice is largely unhelpful — most of us know what we need to do and in general, the best way of helping people is to support them in reaching their own particular [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

STRESS has become a buzzword to describe many aspects of modern life: the difficulties we encounter ('there's a lot of stress at work and at home'), and our responses to those difficulties ('I ' m f e e l i n g stressed and it's getting me down'). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

XERCISE is a miracle cure — or at least a miracle treatment — for almost everything. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AS AN infectious diseases doctor at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, which is part of University College London Hospital (UCLH), I see patients with infections ? and I also study viruses in the lab at University College [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AS AN infectious diseasesdoctor at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, which is part of University College London Hospital (UCLH), I see patients with infections -and I also study viruses in the lab at University College London next door. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IT'S a life-saving procedure I've witnessed - and carried out myself - dozens of times in the almost two decades I've worked as a doctor: a patient's heart being shocked by a defibrillator. I watch as the body of the man in front of me, surrounded by highly skilled A&E staff, jerks and almost leaps off the hospital bed as a burst of electricity surges from the pads taped to his chest. He swears, his face contorted. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

UNTIL recently I used to feed my family 'no-added-sugar' foods such as Heinz baked beans on toast as a quick and easy midweek meal. I believed, like any other normal parent, that I was doing the properly healthy sugarfree thing for my wife Dinah, this paper's fashion editor, our two children — Lyra, six, and Sasha, three — and me. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AYEAR ago I managed to persuade my identical twin brother, Xand, to forswear ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) such as pizzas, ready meals, crisps and chocolate on which his diet had relied so heavily and unhealthily for years. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AFTER 20 years of being a doctor and a decade of broadcasting on health issues, I've come to realise that giving people advice is largely unhelpful — most of us know what we need to do and in general, the best way of helping people is to support them in reaching their own particular solution to a problem, rather than imposing a solution on them. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AMERE four weeks— that's all it took for me to pile on enough fat to move from being a healthy weight to being overweight, putting my health at real risk. At the same time, my thinking became sluggish and I slept badly, lying in bed racked with anxiety, sweating with fears about everyday life. I developed heartburn as well as constipation. I got piles. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AMERE four weeks — that's all it took for me to pile on enough fat to move from being a healthy weight to being overweight, putting my health at real risk. At the same time, my thinking became sluggish and I slept badly, lying in bed racked with anxiety, sweating with fears about everyday life. I developed heartburn as well as constipation. I got piles. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AT UNIVERSITY, the first lecture I had on medicines opened with a simple statement: 'Drugs don't work.' As an opening gambit, this felt like heresy to a group of enthusiastic 18-year-olds embarking on medical careers. In fact, it was deliberately provocative, to get us to pay attention. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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When Zoe Spink was asked to allocate three hours a day to painting or making ceramic pots, she was horrified. The 66-year-old former beauty queen says art was her worst subject at school and the thought of trying to recreate a bowl of fruit on a canvas filled her with fear and embarrassment. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WITH her six-week-old baby waking in the night, crying and in obvious discomfort, worried mum Ruby Abiss went online and immediately found an answer: her daughter had a cow's milk protein allergy (CMPA). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SOMETHING that is good for us can also be bad for us. It may sound illogical, but it's why one week we can read that something is a universal panacea only to become a powerful carcinogen the next. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

By Dr CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN INFECTIOUS DISEASE SPECIALIST AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

By Dr CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN INFECTIOUS DISEASE SPECIALIST AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

POSITANO is an Italian restaurant run by a gregarious family of Italian culinary geniuses: not the most obvious setting for a science experiment. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]