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What it's REALLY like being married to a healthy-eating fanatic: Dr Chris van Tulleken banned ready meals, tuts at his wife's favourite Pret sandwich - and then he came for her peanut butter
It all started with the Alpen, but things didn't really come to a head until the night of the Aldi pre-prepared lasagne.
That evening, after a full day of work, I'd rushed home, running late as usual. Knowing there was practically no time between collecting my daughters from school and nursery and getting them bathed and to bed, I'd picked up the lasagne en route, knowing it would appeal to adults and children alike.
Yet when it arrived at the table, bubbling and golden, my husband refused to take a bite. He said he'd rather go without than eat something he wouldn't call food, and he didn't think the girls should be eating it either.
I'm a generally easy-going person, but my first reaction was tell him to 'make the bloody dinner yourself then'. Choices are limited when I have 30 minutes from getting through the door to starting the bedtime routine.
The even more infuriating thing was that I recognised he had a point.
Dr Chris van Tulleken's wife, Dinah, revealed that her husband refused to take a bite of an Aldi pre-prepared lasagne
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My twin sibling hit 19 stone. I worry he'll die youthful. DR CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN's personal chit will bruised a misreading with profuse who squash about representation health designate their hobby loved ones
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Catching Up With Dr. Alexander van Tulleken, That Charming Ebola Expert
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Photo: Courtesy of Alexander van Tulleken
The Ebola epidemic that dominated the news cycle for the last couple of weeks has created at least one new media star: Dr. Alexander van Tulleken, a British doctor who works in Humanitarian Affairs at Fordham in the Bronx. Thanks to his specialty in tropical diseases, he’s been making the rounds as an expert on Fox 5, CNN, Al Jazeera, MSNBC, BBC World Service, and more. The reassurance that he typically offers — Ebola is not very contagious, it can be contained, and there won’t be an outbreak in a major Western city — is certainly calming. But Jon Stewart located another source of the doctor’s appeal last week, while showing a clip of van Tulleken explaining emphatically, and in a dashing British accent, that Ebola can only spread through direct contact with bodily fluids containing the virus. “I think Dr. Affleck just gave me some Ebola right here,” said Stewart, pointing to his heart. “Direct contact with bodily fluids?” Stewart tittered. “Worth it!”
The Stewart clip aired while van Tulleken — 35, six-foot-one — was on a plane to Italy, heading for his identical twin brother Chris’s wedding in Tuscany, which is where I reached him.