These foods come in so many forms it’s easy to consume them with every meal and not realise the cumulative effect they may be having.
, followed 10 ,775 people over a decade and found a higher consumption of ultra-processed food was associated with cognitive decline.It does not show causation and factors like socioeconomic status and education need to be considered, but it adds to many papers that have shown strong associations between ultra-processed foods and health problems including obesity, cardiovascular disease, hypertension and type 2 diabetes, says public health nutritionist Dr Rosemary Stanton.
They are overconsumed, typically cheaper and often absorbed differently by our bodies. “The obvious example is the way bread is made alters the way it is digested, and its nutrients are absorbed,” she explains. “The typical modern loaf contains rapid dough risers, which means the dough rises in about five minutes. Traditional bread-making with yeast involves several hours for the dough to rise.”
Jeyapalan agrees. “The combinations of the fats, the sugars, all the additives, the thickener, emulsifiers… what is that doing to someone’s body as a whole rather than the individual components that we pull out [and test]?” Both the knowns and the unknowns of high consumption of ultra-processed foods are a concern, Jeyapalan says, especially if young children grow up eating these foods. “Are we almost putting them on the back foot from getting a healthy start to life?”The answer doesn’t lie in the nutritional panel of packaged foods.
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