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    Title of the book: Ultra Processed People why we can't stop eating food that isn't food  Author: Chris van Tulleken  Publisher: W.W. Norton  Publishing Date: 2023  ISBN: 978-1-324-07626-1 Summary: Goodreads Choice AwardNominee for Readers' Favorite Nonfiction (2023) New York Times Bestseller Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize Shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the food. We have entered a new age of eating. For the first time in human history, most of our calories come from an entirely novel set of substances called Ultra-Processed Food. There’s a long, formal scientific definition, but it can be boiled down to this: if it’s wrapped in plastic and has at least one ingredient that you wouldn’t find in your kitchen, it’s UPF. These products are specifically engineered to behave as addictive substances, driving excess consumption. They are now li...

      Name of Book: The Third Rule of Time Travel Author: Phillip Fracassi ISBN:  9780316572514 Publisher: Orbit  Type of book: time travel, memories, alternative worlds, 2044, secrets, higher force, widowhood, science fiction, technology  Year it was published: 2025 Summary: Rule One: Travel can only occur to a point within your lifetime. Rule Two: You can only travel for ninety seconds. Rule Three: You can only observe. The rules cannot be broken. In this riveting science fiction novel from acclaimed author Philip Fracassi, a scientist has unlocked the mysteries of time travel. This is not the story you think you know. And the rules are only the beginning. Scientist Beth Darlow has discovered the unimaginable. She's built a machine that allows human consciousness to travel through time—to any point in the traveler's lifetime—and relive moments of their life. An impossible breakthrough, but it's not perfect: the traveler has no way to interact with the pas...