Cutting down on the amount of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) you eat can lead to a longer, healthier life. Publishing in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, a new modelling study estimated that 57,000 deaths in 2019, in people aged between 30 and 69, could have been prevented if people had eaten less UPF. The research, conducted on Brazilian citizens, underlines the damage to our health, wellbeing and longevity from eating UPFs. The study adds to the rapidly growing body of evidence highlighting the dangers of highly processed foods which are marketed as cheap and ‘nutritious’ alternatives to minimally processed nutrient-dense wholefoods. RESET EATING gives you all the information you need to change your diet and lifestyle in an accessible and digestible format!
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Unfortunately millions of ‘sheeples’ are addicted to Ultra-Processed Foods. Unfortunately there is no legal, scientific or medical definition for the term ‘Ultra-Processed Foods’, so mainstream media/social media (supported by Big Food/Big Dairy/Big Pharma advertising revenue) are unlikely to warn the Public of the potential dangers of consuming ‘junk’ food, including convenience foods often saturated in refined salt, sugar and rancid/oxidised fats. Ultimately however, it is the the consumer that decides what they choose to put in their shopping basket. The elephant in the room is obvious – it’s the CONSUMER, and the underlying problem lies with the consumer! They revel in their decision to practice a well known human failing: ‘Ignorance and Apathy.’
Having worked in a food bank I met so many people who don’t know how to cook or don’t have the facilities.
So true Carla. It’s something we’re passionate about at ANH, which is why we’re looking at ways to help people to overcome such problems by helping them to learn to cook and understand what can be done with few ingredients and limited facilities.
UPFs – it seems from history – originated around WW2 with the introduction of mass-produced (probably not very nutritious) bread to feed the troops; fast turnaround and quantity (rather than quality) were the requirements. From there the F-F industry sky-rocketed, interwoven with the need to add more sugar and more salt /MSG to enhance flavour and added (synthetic) vitamins to put back nutrients – all lost through “cheap” preparation and equally cheap ingredients. The Kellogg “joke” (circa ’60/’70s I think) of the box being more nutritious than its contents arose! Of course the reasons it sky-rocketted and never looked back was driven by the usual suspects : money, greed and corruption; initially Big-Ag , but when they saw how sick people were getting, Big Pharma joined in and took over – seeing the ultimate opportunity for an unlimited , unending source of revenue. And this is where we are today. Sick, obese, under-nourished people being “treated” (not cured) by damaging drugs that keep them in this perpetual cycle – all due to Big Pharma. (And then we had COVID – similar story). And the Regulators of quality and nutrition (and medical standards) have all been bought by Big Pharma; it is relatively recently that ingredients lists have been mandated for products. So the Consumer has been deliberately lied to and confused – for decades – as to what he/she is eating. Look how easily people succumbed to being confused and lied to over the past 2.5 to 3 years!!!! Things are changing as many educate themselves, but people need to have the truth exposed to them – to be educated about what is REALLY going on – especially the financial connections – on mainstream media – (if at all possible!) , they need to recognize the REAL elephant in the room: Big Pharma.