The TV science presenter – who’s fronted shows including BBC Two’s recent Irresistible: Why We Can’t Stop Eating, and is the author of the best-selling book Ultra-Processed People – will reveal how what we eat can have a massive effect on both our bodies and our brains through The Truth About Food programme, as part of BBC Four’s Royal Institution Christmas Lectures for children.
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“We’re going to use cameras to get views inside the human body, and do lots of big experiments with kids about how the gut works and how your body breaks down and destroys food,” says van Tulleken.
The presenter, who’s also a practising NHS infectious diseases doctor at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London, stresses that the aim of his lectures isn’t particularly to get children to change what they eat.
And he’ll bring science to life through the lectures’ trademark demos and self-experimentation – including taking young viewers on a journey to the centre of his gut by swallowing a camera-pill to unpack every step of the digestion process.
