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Sunday, February 17th, 2019

Eating ‘ultraprocessed’ foods accelerates your risk of early death, study says

Author:     Susan Scutti
Source:     CNN/KSL.com
Publication Date:     Feb 11th, 2019 @ 9:14pm
 Link: Eating ‘ultraprocessed’ foods accelerates your risk of early death, study says
Stephan:   I focus on the food trend and the research on its effects on health because I would like all my readers to have the latest science showing how to live long healthy lives. As this research shows one important step is to stop eating processed foods. Add to that the piece I just ran about the benefits of eating organic food, and the one on eliminating toxins in your environment, and you can see that improving your health is not that complicated, and the positive effects can be very dramatic. All of this, of course, is in direct opposition to the corporate neoliberalism where profit is the only social priority, and your family are just money sacks to be pilfered.

ATLANTA, GEORGIA — The quick and easy noshes you love are chipping away at your mortality one nibble at a time, according to new research from France: We face a 14 percent higher risk of early death with each 10 percent increase in the amount of ultraprocessed foods we eat.

“Ultraprocessed foods are manufactured industrially from multiple ingredients that usually include additives used for technological and/or cosmetic purposes,” wrote the authors of the study, published Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. “Ultraprocessed foods are mostly consumed in the form of snacks, desserts, or ready-to-eat or -heat meals,” and their consumption “has largely increased during the past several decades.”

This trend may drive an increase of early deaths due to chronic illnesses, including cancer and cardiovascular disease, they say.

Ultraprocessed foods are gaining ground in our diets

In the United States, 61 percent of an adult’s total diet comes from ultraprocessed foods, in Canada, it is 62 percent, and in the UK, that proportion is 63 percent, a recent study found. Yet research also indicates that eating ultraprocessed foods can lead to obesity, high […]

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1 Comment

  1. John Gabriel Otvos on Sunday, February 17, 2019 at 7:00 am

    When we eat/live a whole foods plant-based diet/lifestyle, we become healthier, lose excess weight and feel good about those decisions. Whole means unprocessed. All the body requires can be found in plants, save B12 which is found in an inexpensive pill. For those of us who overwinter up north, D also comes in a useful pill.