{"id":152683,"date":"2025-06-02T17:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T17:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/152683\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T17:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T17:49:09","slug":"ultraprocessed-foods-like-soda-white-bread-increase-risk-of-early-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/152683\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultraprocessed foods like soda, white bread increase risk of early death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"7\">Nilson and his team of researchers pooled data on ultraprocessed foods from eight countries, including the United States. Worldwide, the U.S. outranked every other featured country for having the highest concentration of ultraprocessed foods in its diets. <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"8\">Americans consequently faced the highest increased risk of death \u2014 nearly 14%. The study estimated 124,000 premature deaths within the U.S. were attributable to ultraprocessed food consumption in 2018 alone. <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"9\">Ultraprocessed food consumption <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/384\/bmj-2023-077310\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has previously been linked<\/a> to 32 health conditions, including cancers, obesity and high blood pressure. Nilson and his team\u2019s work, however, has given researchers a better understanding of precisely how all of those different influences may be putting consumers at risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"11\">\u201cUPFs affect health beyond the individual impact of high content of critical nutrients (sodium, trans fats and sugar) because of the changes in the foods during industrial processing and the use of artificial ingredients, including colorants, artificial flavors and sweeteners, emulsifiers and many other additives and processing aids, so assessing deaths from all-causes associated with UPF consumption allows an overall estimate of the effect of industrial food processing on health,\u201d Nilson explained. <\/p>\n<p>Explore<a class=\"headline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/pulse\/you-might-be-eating-predigested-food-seriously\/7NJSSE4ZYNDVZGR5ZXJMVUY5QQ\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">You might be eating \u2018predigested\u2019 food. Seriously<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"14\">While the U.S. is facing the highest rate of attributable premature deaths, ultraprocessed foods are becoming an expanding issue in many other countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"15\">\u201cIt is concerning that, while in high-income countries UPF consumption is already high but relatively stable for over a decade, in low- and middle-income countries the consumption has continuously increased, meaning that while the attributable burden in high-income countries is currently higher, it is growing in the other countries,\u201d Nilson said. \u201cThis shows that policies that disincentivize the consumption of UPFs are urgently needed globally, promoting traditional dietary patterns based on local fresh and minimally processed foods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"16\">For this study, Nilson\u2019s team processed data on ultraprocessed food consumption in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, the United Kingdom and the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nilson and his team of researchers pooled data on ultraprocessed foods from eight countries, including the United States.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4318],"tags":[65063,49547,1301,372,1203,105,45981,54611,32505,4434,65057,42817,65059,65060,65058,65062,65061,58218,16,65056,15,2488],"class_list":{"0":"post-152683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-ajcpulse","9":"tag-artificial","10":"tag-depression","11":"tag-diet","12":"tag-food","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-junk","15":"tag-link","16":"tag-mental","17":"tag-nutrition","18":"tag-packaged","19":"tag-processed-foods","20":"tag-rct-video","21":"tag-rct-video-ew","22":"tag-servings","23":"tag-sp-pulse","24":"tag-spcontent","25":"tag-sweeteners","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-ultraprocessed","28":"tag-united-kingdom","29":"tag-wellness"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114615036954169047","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}