{"id":340785,"date":"2026-03-21T13:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/340785\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T13:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:20:13","slug":"the-5-food-lessons-i-live-by-as-a-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/340785\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5 food lessons I live by as a doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episodes\/m001l5jt\/dr-xands-con-or-cure\" class=\"ssrcss-15td0ur-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC&#8217;s Con or Cure<\/a>,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckgklkngn1qo\" class=\"ssrcss-15td0ur-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Xand Van Tulleken<\/a> investigates popular health-related claims with journalist Ashley John-Baptiste.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;One of the things I love most about Con or Cure is, we start to see patterns emerge in health myths,&#8221; says Xand. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;With consumer health products, you start to spot the price point, the claims, the targeting, the subscription model\u2026 They all have similar characteristics even if they seem different.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On the show Xand is often surprised by the science (or lack of it) behind widely accepted health myths. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And there are plenty of myths (and emotions) surrounding ultra-processed foods (UPFs). <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From marketing claims about how nutritious they can be, to the guilt felt by shoppers when they buy them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For Xand, it was following the science that turned him away from a diet that was high in UPFs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Here are five truths that have changed how he eats and thinks about food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On BBC&#8217;s Con or Cure, Dr Xand Van Tulleken investigates popular health-related claims with journalist Ashley John-Baptiste. &#8220;One&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[134,111,139,556,69],"class_list":["post-340785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nutrition","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}