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More than half of our calories are coming from ultra-processed foods – items highly manipulated and filled with chemicals. If your goal is to eat healthier in the new year, you’ll want to take ...
Consumption of ultra-processed foods is strongly associated with obesity and weight gain. Individuals with diets high in ultra-processed foods consume approximately 500 more calories per day compared to those consuming unprocessed foods, resulting in around a pound of weight gain per week. [7] [8]
Participants consuming ultra-processed diets ate an average of 500 more calories per day compared to those on unprocessed diets, putting on additional pounds over time.
Eating higher levels of ultraprocessed food may shorten lifespans by more than 10%, according to a new, unpublished study of over 500,000 people whom researchers followed for nearly three decades ...
They found three combinations that most frequently defined hyperpalatable foods: [1] Foods with more than 25% of calories from fat plus more than 0.30% sodium by weight (often including bacon, cheese, and salami). Foods with more than 20% of calories from fat and more than 20% of calories from simple sugars (typically cake, ice cream, chocolate).
Hess and her colleagues drove home that point in a 2023 study, for which they created a hypothetical diet almost entirely made up of ultra-processed foods like breakfast burritos, canned soup, and ...
Van Tulleken asserts that UPF is a bigger cause of weight gain than sugar or a lack of exercise, and describes psychological and physiological effects of UPF on the human body. He draws from conversations with scientists and experts within the food industry , and calls attention to the failure to rigorously state conflicts of interest in ...
About 60 percent of the U.S. diet is comprised of ultra-processed food. That’s no surprise considering that so much of what we eat is processed: deli meat, packaged bread, soda, chips—even the ...