The internet’s most asked questions about food – with Chris van Tulleken

The internet’s most asked questions about food – with Chris van Tulleken

Join the 2024 Christmas Lecturer Chris van Tulleken and get answers to the most Googled questions about food. Chris’s lectures are on ‘The truth about food’ and you can watch them BBC Four on the 29, 30, and 31 December at 9pm, and on iPlayer from 29 December. We’ll also upload them to YouTube on 31 December for everyone outside the UK. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYeF244yNGuFefuFKqxIAXw/join Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe — Initiated by Michael Faraday when organised education for children was scarce, the CHRISTMAS LECTURES established an exciting new way of presenting science to young people. World-famous scientists have given the Lectures, including Nobel Prize winners William and Lawrence Bragg, Sir David Attenborough, Carl Sagan and Dame Nancy Rothwell. First broadcast in 1936, the CHRISTMAS LECTURES is the oldest science television series. They have been broadcast every year since 1966 on the BBC and in later years on Channel Five, Channel Four and more4. In 2010, the Lectures returned to BBC Four. Find out more here: https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures — 0:00 Intro 0:14 Why does food need to be digested? 2:09 Why does food taste better when I’m hungry? 3:11 Why does food make me sleepy? 4:55 Why does food make me feel sick? 6:10 Why does food turn into poo? — Chris van Tulleken is an NHS infectious diseases doctor at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London, one of the UK’s leading science presenters and a New York Times bestselling author. Chris grew up in London and trained in medicine at Oxford University, specialising in infectious disease and tropical medicine. He has a PhD in molecular virology from Greg Towers lab and in 2016 he won the Max Perutz award for his HIV research. He is currently an Associate Professor in the division of Infection and Immunity at UCL, where his research focuses on how corporations affect human health, especially in the context of child nutrition, and he works with UNICEF and the World Health Organisation. Chris is one of the UK’s leading science presenters having worked on many flagship Health and Science programmes including: Trust Me, I’m a Doctor, Horizon, The Truth About…, Operation Iceberg, Cloud Lab, Museum of Life, and Blizzard: Race to the Pole, among others. Credit to : The Royal Institution