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A 'tidal wave of harm' will hit the UK due to Brits' high ultra-processed food diet, experts warned today.
The alert follows two studies which found that people who consume lots of mass-produced foods have a 24 per cent higher risk of suffering a heart attack and a 39 per cent increased chance of having dangerously high blood pressure.
Campaigners called the findings, from researchers in Australia and China, the strongest evidence yet that eating ultra-processed foods is deadly.
However, scientists are divided.
A swathe of studies have pointed to ultra-processed foods' high-calorie, salt, sugar and fat content, as well as factors such as a lack of exercise, as the real culprit behind the health risks linked with the foods — rather than how they are made.
Ultra-processed foods are those that have ingredients that wouldn't be found in a kitchen cupboard, such as preservatives, sweeteners and artificial colours, and typically have a longer shelf life than fresh alternatives.
Some examples include ice cream, mass-produced bread, flavoured yogurts, soft drinks, breakfast cereals and ready meals or fast food.
However, British experts have urged Brits not to panic over the new findings.
Professor Gunter Kuhnle, an expert in nutrition and food science at the University of Reading, said the studies, like others before them, fail to pinpoint ultra-processed food as the culprit.
'We already know that a dietary pattern with high ultra-processed foods increases the risk for some diseases — but that doesn’t mean that it is the ultra-processed foods that drives the association,' he said.
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The alert follows two studies which found that people who consume lots of mass-produced foods have a 24 per cent higher risk of suffering a heart attack and a 39 per cent increased chance of having dangerously high blood pressure.
Campaigners called the findings, from researchers in Australia and China, the strongest evidence yet that eating ultra-processed foods is deadly.
However, scientists are divided.
A swathe of studies have pointed to ultra-processed foods' high-calorie, salt, sugar and fat content, as well as factors such as a lack of exercise, as the real culprit behind the health risks linked with the foods — rather than how they are made.
Ultra-processed foods are those that have ingredients that wouldn't be found in a kitchen cupboard, such as preservatives, sweeteners and artificial colours, and typically have a longer shelf life than fresh alternatives.
Some examples include ice cream, mass-produced bread, flavoured yogurts, soft drinks, breakfast cereals and ready meals or fast food.
However, British experts have urged Brits not to panic over the new findings.
Professor Gunter Kuhnle, an expert in nutrition and food science at the University of Reading, said the studies, like others before them, fail to pinpoint ultra-processed food as the culprit.
'We already know that a dietary pattern with high ultra-processed foods increases the risk for some diseases — but that doesn’t mean that it is the ultra-processed foods that drives the association,' he said.
the truth about ultra processed foods .....read the whole article here..
