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Ultra-processed food on the brain

6 July 2022

“It’s almost as if your brain went into an overexcitement,” said Professor Claudia Wheeler-Kingshott (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology), describing how a diet of nothing but ultra-processed food affected the subject’s brain.

Listen: BBC Radio 4 ‘A Thorough Examination with Drs Chris and Xand’ (from 18 mins, 32 secs)