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One for me to watch on iPlayer: Irresistible Why We Can't Stop Eating #ultraprocessedfoods #diet #upfs #bbc #iplayer
BBC iPlayerIrresistible: Why We Can’t Stop EatingChris van Tulleken takes a personal view at why ultra-processed foods are so irresistible and how they have come to dominate food culture.
A toxic relationship: plastics & ultra-processed foods (UPFs).
A new paper explores how these industries fuel each other’s growth, harming health & environment. With ongoing talks for a #PlasticsTreaty, authors make the case for tackling these dual crises together.
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(2/3) Food companies process food without regard for its #nutrition content, focusing instead on getting us to buy as much as possible. The problem with #UPFs is that they drive us to overeat; it’s weight gain, not preservatives, that's the #health risk: https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2024/09/20/ultra-processed-foods-obesity-reasons-overeating/
The Washington Post · What we get wrong about ultra-processed foods
Processing is just a tool. As food companies are in the business of selling food, they use it to give us an endless variety of cheap & irresistible food that's readily available, requires no preparation & is advertised relentlessly... (1/3) https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2024/09/20/ultra-processed-foods-obesity-reasons-overeating/ #UPFs #NOVA
The Washington Post · What we get wrong about ultra-processed foods
'The Kellanova-Mars deal underscores that 75% of the American diet still remains calorie-dense, craveable UPFs. It will take an enormous effort to change that.' Wow. https://www.forbes.com/sites/errolschweizer/2024/08/18/what-the-mars-kellanova-deal-will-really-cost-consumers/ #foodstudies #UPFs #snackfoods #monopolies #grocery #nutrition #US #diet
Forbes · What The Mars-Kellanova Deal Will Really Cost Consumers
'The Kellanova-Mars deal underscores that 75% of the American diet still remains calorie-dense, craveable UPFs. It will take an enormous effort to change that.' Wow. https://www.forbes.com/sites/errolschweizer/2024/08/18/what-the-mars-kellanova-deal-will-really-cost-consumers/ #foodstudies #UPFs #snackfoods #monopolies #grocery #nutrition #US #diet
Forbes · What The Mars-Kellanova Deal Will Really Cost Consumers
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@joelanman #TimSpector ranting on about it and then launching his own #Zoe range of #UPFs is another fab example
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12934045/Tim-Spector-probiotic-ultra-processed-food.html
(Sorry for the Daily Mail link, it’s all I could find!)
Daily Mail · Critics blast celebrity diet guru Prof Tim Spector for launching an 'ultra-processed' probiotic...
Are ultra-processed foods (UPFs) the new tobacco? 
Some scientists say yes, but it's not that simple. Not all UPFs are created equal! 
Learn why the debate on UPFs is more nuanced than you might think. #NutritionDebate #UPFs #HealthyEating
https://www.salon.com/2024/07/01/should-we-be-afraid-of-ultra-processed-foods-its-complicated/
Salon.com · Should we be afraid of ultra-processed foods? It’s complicatedAnalysis on ultra-processed foods and one scientists call to place tobacco-style warnings on such foods
#Ultraprocessed #foods need tobacco-style #warnings, says scientist. #UPFs should also be heavily taxed due to impact on #health and #mortality, says scientist who coined term. #food and #nutrition #healthcare #publichealth #diabetes #eating #meals https://www.theguardian.com/global/article/2024/jun/27/ultra-processed-foods-need-tobacco-style-warnings-says-scientist
The Guardian · Ultra-processed foods need tobacco-style warnings, says scientist
"The #Tobacco, #UltraProcessedFoods (#UPFs), #FossilFuel,& #Alcohol industries are "wholly or partly responsible" for nearly 1/4 of all deaths in the region.
#FourIndustries (4) kill at least 7,000 people every day. The same commercial entities block regulation that would protect the public from harmful products, & protect health policy from industry interference"
https://www.euronews.com/health/2024/06/12/these-four-industries-alone-cause-27-million-deaths-in-european-region-new-who-report-find
euronewsThese four industries cause 2.7 million deaths in EuropeA new report shows how certain industries impact health and premature mortality in the World Health Organisation's European region.
It's amazing that Michael Pollan's ground breaking books and movies are over 10 years old and yet most of us haven't taken his simple advice seriously.
"Eat food, not too much, mostly plants"
And
"Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognise as food."
The Guardian · The man who warned us about UPFs: Michael Pollan on his 25-year fight with the food industry
Independientemente de la presencia de otros factores de riesgo para enfermedades neurológicas, el ingerir alimentos #ultraprocesados es nocivo para el cerebro, incrementando el riesgo de #DeterioroCognitivo e infarto cerebral; mientras que los alimentos mínimamente procesados o no procesados eran protectores.
Concerning:
"A 2022 study...found that men (but not women) who consumed a large amount of [Ultra-Processed Foods] had a 29% greater risk of colorectal cancer.... (I)n August 2023, a research team presented a study concluding that a 10% rise in daily UPF intake was linked to a 6% rise in heart disease risk. And in September, a Harvard study found that the women who ate the most UPFs were 50% more likely to develop depression than those who ate the least."
The Guardian · Ultra-processed US foods are ultra-bad for you. Here’s what to know
#Nova food classification, based on processing & the use of additives, does not help understanding the potential harm of different foods. Some #ultraprocessed food (wholegrain products) may be beneficial, minimally processed food (red #meat) may not: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q793 #UPFs
The BMJ · Ultra-processed foods linked to higher mortalityDebate about the “ultra-processed” concept must not delay food policies that improve health
As research into ultra-processed food gains momentum,1 so too does the debate.234 Foods that fall into the ultra-processed category according to the Nova classification are heterogeneous and include carbonated soft drinks, confectionary, extruded snack foods, distilled alcohol (spirits), and mass produced packaged wholegrain bread.5 Ultra-processed foods are typically high in energy, added sugar, saturated fat, and salt, and a major criticism of previous studies is that they have not disentangled the effects of processing, per se, from the nutrient profile of food products. The linked paper by Fang and colleagues (doi:10.1136/bmj-2023-078476) addresses this concern and others, in their evaluation of the relation between ultra-processed food consumption and mortality in two large US cohort studies.6
Fang and colleagues found a modest increase in the risk of total mortality with higher ultra-processed food consumption6; however, this association was no longer apparent after overall diet quality was taken into account. They also showed that the association between ultra-processed food consumption and mortality was somewhat stronger when distilled alcohol, which is a well established risk factor …
#Ultraprocessed food is not necessarily bad. Meat-based ready-to-eat products drive all cause #mortality, but quality #diets attenuate it—eating less processed #meat can be beneficial for #health. Analyses must control confounding factors: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q793 #UPFs #NOVA
The BMJ · Ultra-processed foods linked to higher mortalityDebate about the “ultra-processed” concept must not delay food policies that improve health
As research into ultra-processed food gains momentum,1 so too does the debate.234 Foods that fall into the ultra-processed category according to the Nova classification are heterogeneous and include carbonated soft drinks, confectionary, extruded snack foods, distilled alcohol (spirits), and mass produced packaged wholegrain bread.5 Ultra-processed foods are typically high in energy, added sugar, saturated fat, and salt, and a major criticism of previous studies is that they have not disentangled the effects of processing, per se, from the nutrient profile of food products. The linked paper by Fang and colleagues (doi:10.1136/bmj-2023-078476) addresses this concern and others, in their evaluation of the relation between ultra-processed food consumption and mortality in two large US cohort studies.6
Fang and colleagues found a modest increase in the risk of total mortality with higher ultra-processed food consumption6; however, this association was no longer apparent after overall diet quality was taken into account. They also showed that the association between ultra-processed food consumption and mortality was somewhat stronger when distilled alcohol, which is a well established risk factor …