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As you add more ultra-procedural foods to your diet, the risk of premature death for any reason increases, according to a new meta-analysis of studies involving more than 240,000 people.
“We looked at the risk of a person to die of eating more ultra -processed foods between the ages of 30 and 69, a time when you would be premature to die,” says study co -author Carlos Augusti Monteiro, Professor of Nutrition and Public Health at the Brazilian University of SAO Brazilian Health.
“We have found that for every 10% increase in total calories from ultra -processed foods, the risk of dying has prematurely increased by nearly 3%,” says Monteiro, who introduced the term “ultrasound” in 2009 when he developed a new food classification system in four groups at their level of processing.
The first of the NOVA group is unprocessed or minimally processed foods in their natural state, such as fruits, vegetables, meat, milk and eggs. The second group includes culinary ingredients such as salt, herbs and oils. The third group consists of processed foods that combine groups one and two – canned goods and frozen vegetables are examples.
Group Four includes ultra -procedural foods. By Monteiro’s definition, ultra -processed foods contain almost no food. Instead, they are produced by “chemically manipulated cheap ingredients” and often use “synthetic additives to make them edible, pleasant and habits.”
“There is no reason to believe that people can fully adapt to these products,” Monteiro Cote in editorial office of 2024 in BMJ magazine. “The body can react to them as useless or harmful, so its systems can be disturbed or damaged, depending on their vulnerability and the amount of ultra -processed food consumed.”
The new survey is misleading and will lead to confusion for consumers, said Sarah Gallo, Senior Vice President for the Product Policy for the Consumer Brand Association, which represents the food industry.
“Demonization of comfortable, affordable and shelves for eating and drinks can limit access to and cause the avoidance of nutritional dense foods,” said Gallo in an email that leads to a reduction in the quality of the diet, an increased risk of diseases carried by food and exacerbating health differences. “
Ultra -processed foods include bread products such as donuts, snacks, ready -to -eat eating, breakfast cereals, frozen dishes and sweetened and diet drinks. – Igor Barilo/Istockphoto/Getty Images
Simply service a day matters, say studies
This study is not the first to find a link between the negative health results and the small increases in ultra -processed food.
A study in February 2024 found “strong” evidence that people who have eaten more urgent food has a 50% higher risk of death associated with cardiovascular disease and common mental disorders.
Higher intake of ultra -processed foods can also increase the risk of anxiety by up to 53%, obesity by 55%, sleep disorders by 41%, development of type 2 diabetes with 40%, and risk of depression or early death for 20%.
The researchers in the study in February determine a higher intake as one serving or about 10% more ultra -procedural foods per day.
A May 2024 study found that the addition of only 10% of ultra -processed food to an otherwise healthy diet can also increase the risk of cognitive decline and stroke, while 2023 examines that the inclusion of 10% more ultra -procedural foods is associated with a greater chance of developing cancerous diseases.
It is estimated that 70% of food supplies to the United States are ultrasound.
“Two -thirds of the calories that children consume in the United States are ultrasound, while about 60% of adult diets are ultra -production,” Boston in Boston in Boston in Boston told Boston in Boston in Boston in Boston in Boston in Boston in Boston in Boston in Boston in Boston in Boston in Boston in Boston in Boston in Boston in Boston in Boston in Boston. Gian is not involved in the new survey.
Global evaluation of preventive deaths
The latest study, published on Monday, in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, has taken an additional step, assessing how many deaths can be prevented in eight countries with low, medium and high consumption of ultra -processed foods.
“Premature preventive cases due to UPFS consumption may range from 4% in countries with less UPF consumption to nearly 14% in countries with UPF’s largest consumption,” the leading study by Eduardo Augusto Nilson, an explorer in Rio.
However, it is important to note that the study was not able to determine whether the deaths were “caused by UPF consumption. The methods of this study simply cannot determine this,” said nutritional Nerris Asthbury, Associate Professor of Diet and Obesity at the Oxford University at Oxford. He did not participate in the study.
The United States has the highest level of ultra -processed food consumption in the world – nearly 55% of the average diet of the American, according to the study. Researchers estimate that the reduction of the use of these ultra -processed foods to zero would prevent over 124,000 deaths in the United States in 2017.
In countries where the consumption of ultra -processed foods is low, such as Colombia (15% of diet) and Brazil (17.4%), reducing use to zero would prevent nearly 3,000 deaths in the former country in 2015 and 25,000 deaths in the last in 2017, according to the study.
“The authors determine the theoretical level of minimum risk of being 0. This implies a scenario in which all UPFs are eliminated, which is extremely unrealistic and almost impossible in our current society,” Gian said in an email. “As a result, the forecast weight of pre -row death due to UPFS may be overestimated.”
Stephen Burgess, a statistician in the MRC biostatics department in the UK in Cambridge, said, although the study could not prove the consumption of ultra -processed foods, “it provides evidence that linked consumption to more health results.”
“It is possible that the real causal risk factor is not ultra -processed foods, but a related risk factor such as better physical fitness -and ultrasound foods is simply an innocent observer,” said a statement in a statement, who did not participate in the study. “But when we see these associations, reproduced in many countries and cultures, this causes the suspicion that ultra -processed foods can be more than an observer.”
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