How Ultra Processed Foods are damaging health| Limiting Ultra processed food to improve your health!
Channel: Dr Elizabeth Lucy
Date: 2021-08-22

The role of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) is becoming an area of concern within the Public Health and food reformulation agenda with many adverse health outcomes emerging as both related and attributed to the over consumption of ultra-processed food products (Monteiro, 2019).  

Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are industrially processed, using many additional preservatives and additives, and tend to be higher in saturated fat, sodium and sugar (Lam, 2017). Ultra Processed Foods account for 54% of daily calories consumed in the UK (Levey, 2021), resulting in the third highest sales volume of UPFs per capita across all developed countries (Vandevijvere, 2019). Whilst over half of dietary energy is attributed to Ultra Processed Food consumption (Lam, 2017), the adverse impacts on human health are emerging, with recent studies demonstrating a link between high  Ultra Processed Food consumption and poorer health outcomes (Edalati, 2021).

with our modern lifestyles  Ultra Processed Foods are often a part of that, and there is still place for  Ultra Processed Foods in our diet, but the message is that this shouldn't be the majority and we should be looking to consume more nutritionally dense foods as the majority part of our diet. 

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Levy, Renata B. (2021) Ultra-processed food consumption and type 2 diabetes incidence: A prospective cohort study. Clinical Nutrition, Volume 40, Issue 5, 3608 – 3614
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