The day a food manufacturer offered me £20,000 to keep quiet about dangers of UPFs... and why you're right to be suspicious of 'independent' experts.

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]