Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are convenient, ready-to-eat or heat industrial formulations that are made with ingredients that were extracted from whole foods or those that...
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh's Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems together with the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, have developed a simulation tool to estimate the health impacts of reducing consumption of processed meat and unprocessed red meat. They suggest that reducing consumption of processed meat by one-third could prevent over 350,000 cases of diabetes in America alone over 10 years.
According to a new study published in Neurology, people who eat more ultra-processed foods and beverages may have a higher risk of cognitive decline...
This large review published in the BMJ involved experts from a number of leading institutions, including Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the US, the University of Sydney, and Sorbonne University in France.
The authors concluded that: “Overall, direct associations were found between exposure to ultra-processed foods and 32 health parameters spanning mortality, cancer, and mental, respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, and metabolic health outcomes.” Adding that “Greater exposure to ultra-processed food was associated with a higher risk of adverse health outcomes, especially cardiometabolic, common mental disorders and mortality outcomes.
“These findings provide a rationale to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of using population-based and public-health measures to target and reduce dietary exposure to ultra-processed foods for improved human health.”
It is no secret that ultra-processed foods are not good for you, research has been pointing that fact out for decades, but it has become more of an issue in recent years, as demonstrated in the global rates of obesity and diabetes. The Western world is more impacted by this food trend, but it has spread to the entire globe.
Medical professionals are trying to raise the alarm over what is fast becoming the new but not-so-new silent killer. Research from Florida Atlantic University’s Schmidt College of Medicine tries to shine a brighter light on the detrimental effects of this kind of food and draw more attention to the dire need for a dietary shift to stop the trend of death by junk food.
A new study led by researchers at the KECK School of Medicine of USC published in the journal Environmental International sheds new light on food and beverage products, linking per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to dietary patterns, and suggests potential solutions for protecting public health. Findings point to the importance of both testing and monitoring various food and beverage products for PFAS contamination.
An international study, led by the University of Bristol and the International Agency for Research on Cancer, analyzed diet and lifestyle data on 450,111 adults who were followed for approximately 14 years.
Eating high amounts of ultra-processed foods (UPFs)u2014particularly those containing artificial sweetenersu2014may increase the risk of developing depression, according to a new study co-authored by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Many studies have linked ultra-processed foods which include hot dogs, fruit-flavored drinks and industrially processed packaged snacks to a variety of health issues ranging from certain cancers to weight gain. This has many Americans asking if there is so much evidence where are all of the food policies to help people avoid these foods?
A study recently published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine has found that there are only a small number of U.S. policies that consider ultra-processed foods and that America is behind other countries that have taken measures to inform their residents such as Israel, Belgium, and Brazil.
