Matt Rudd

I had not been looking forward to meeting Chris van Tulleken. As the television doctor strolls into the room, all smiles and eye contact, it’s clear he’s a charismatic, handsome and (slightly) younger man — all of which is annoying, but not the reason I’m hesitant. That is because of his best-selling book. I read Ultra-Processed People, a few months after everyone else did, but very quickly a lot of the food I had once very much enjoyed — the naughty food, the nice food, sadly the same thing — lost its appeal.