Children and teens in the United States now get more than two-thirds of their calories from ultra-processed foods, an analysis of almost two decades worth of data has found.Ultra-processed foods — such as frozen pizza, microwave meals, packaged snacks and desserts — accounted for 67% of calories consumed in 2018, up from 61% in 1999, according to research published in the medical journal JAMA Tuesday. The study analyzed the diet of 33,795 children and adolescents nationwide.
While industrial processing can keep food fresher longer and allow some foods to be fortified with vitamins, it modifies food to change its consistency, taste and color to make it more palatable, cheap and convenient — using processes that aren’t used in home-cooked meals. They are also aggressively marketed by the food industry.
“Some whole grain breads and dairy foods are ultra-processed, and they’re healthier than other ultra-processed foods,” said senior author Fang Fang Zhang, a nutrition and cancer epidemiologist at the Friedman School of Nutrition […]
Stephan, profit is as American as apple pie. The 4-galloping “P’s” in your culture, economy, society and polity are: private property, and personal profit. Those 4-ps are destroying our E-air-th by making it impossible for humanity to survive.
For this moment, best book of my 83 year life: by Fred Provenza: “Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us About Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom” – our guts inform our choices and the soil creates the remedies for maintaining health [and regenerates to store carbon.] Happy grazing, humans!
Only organic food is acceptable in everyone’s diet.
Another example that shows how much America loves their children. Train their tastes early then they can go from the food-profit industry smoothly into the illness-profit industry. Now that is a solid long term investment!