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Food system needs a revolution, not tinkering around edges by the ultra-processed producers
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1265" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/food-system-needs-a-revolution-not-tinkering-around-edges-by-the-ultra-processed-producers-120186" target="_blank"><strong>Food system needs a revolution, not tinkering around edges by the ultra-processed producers - The Conversation</strong></a></p><p></p><p>Eating ultra-processed food is definitely bad for you, a <a href="https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(19)30248-7" target="_blank">recent study</a> has confirmed. In the experiment, people were fed either ultra-processed or unprocessed food, with meals matched precisely for calories, salt, sugar, fat and fibre. Those on ultra-processed food ate more and gained more weight within two weeks.</p><p></p><p>This finding puts two torpedoes in the notion that “all calories are the same”. Recent studies have linked ultra-processed foods to <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-nutrition/article/ultraprocessed-food-consumption-and-excess-weight-among-us-adults/5D2D713B3A85F5C94B0C98A1F224D04A" target="_blank">obesity</a>, <a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k322" target="_blank">cancer</a>, <a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/365/bmj.l1451" target="_blank">heart disease</a> and <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2723626" target="_blank">early death</a>.</p><p></p><p>Most foods need some level of processing, such as freezing or pasteurisation in order to prolong shelf life, food safety and commercial viability, but “ultra-processed” products have little or no intact “food” remaining. Rather, they are made principally from already processed commodities, such as potent sugars, modified oils and salts and they undergo an array of further processes such as emulsification, thickening and carbonating. No longer really foods, they are better thought of as <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30744710" target="_blank">formulations</a>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1265, member: 1"] [URL='https://theconversation.com/food-system-needs-a-revolution-not-tinkering-around-edges-by-the-ultra-processed-producers-120186'][B]Food system needs a revolution, not tinkering around edges by the ultra-processed producers - The Conversation[/B][/URL] Eating ultra-processed food is definitely bad for you, a [URL='https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(19)30248-7']recent study[/URL] has confirmed. In the experiment, people were fed either ultra-processed or unprocessed food, with meals matched precisely for calories, salt, sugar, fat and fibre. Those on ultra-processed food ate more and gained more weight within two weeks. This finding puts two torpedoes in the notion that “all calories are the same”. Recent studies have linked ultra-processed foods to [URL='https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-nutrition/article/ultraprocessed-food-consumption-and-excess-weight-among-us-adults/5D2D713B3A85F5C94B0C98A1F224D04A']obesity[/URL], [URL='https://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k322']cancer[/URL], [URL='https://www.bmj.com/content/365/bmj.l1451']heart disease[/URL] and [URL='https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2723626']early death[/URL]. Most foods need some level of processing, such as freezing or pasteurisation in order to prolong shelf life, food safety and commercial viability, but “ultra-processed” products have little or no intact “food” remaining. Rather, they are made principally from already processed commodities, such as potent sugars, modified oils and salts and they undergo an array of further processes such as emulsification, thickening and carbonating. No longer really foods, they are better thought of as [URL='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30744710']formulations[/URL]. [/QUOTE]
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