How harmful can ultra-processed foods be for us? - BBC News

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🤮 thank God my dad was a healthy eater

I'm a little scared that would make me more knowledge but I'm never concerned because being concerned doesn't centre around ability. It just centres around being defeated and that means nothing

While I agree that ultra-processed foods are a health concern, this is a very small sample size. You need more than two people to provide convincing evidence.

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Moral consume less process food

The only firm number you threw out was weight gain, and you never said you accounted for exercise. Would a single graph have killed you? Just some figures? Something!

I'm a little skeptical of the way this was conducted. It wasn't a blind study and placebo can make a huge impact

Came here to see the numbers from the test they carried out there but all I heard is someone preaching about processed foods.

None of this information is groundbreaking, it has been clear for very long. This content should be viewed by everyone. Money should not be spent on reactive measures like cancer research and the pharmaceuticals industry, it should be spent on helping to implement a healither lifestyle to prevent food related illnesses (physical and definitely mental too) and death in the first place. The world would be a much better place! What is shocking, is that people eat absolute junk (literal glue and god knows which other chemicals) and then are surprised when they have the health issues and the NHS Is under pressure. The solution is simple but the willpower from individuals is lacking

Ultra-processed foods is the most horrible thing you can eat. May as well eat garbage and poison. 🤢

I eat space foods, ultra diets

There is nothing like a simple diet🎉

Fuck that I'm going hungry

Bad, we need them out of our life!

How can she gain more weight if they ate the same calories with exactly the same macros split?

The good news is you can now eat more butter instead of that horrible spread

The problem began in America in the 1920s when burgers, ready pie and cake mixes, pasteurized milk became common.

Any recommendations for someone who only has a mini fridge and a microwave? I tend to buy a lot of microwave meals (healthier ones) but I want to do better.

Why is the assumption that these materials are “potentially harmful”? Without further study and evidence, how do we know they’re not beneficial? And, why does the media NEVER recognize that these processed foods are a direct function of having to feed so many people, and without them, we would see mass starvation? It’s activist journalism and sensationalism without perspective, which is WHY the public is fat, depressed, and misinformed. Stories like this one are mental cigarettes… 🚬🧠

Americans look at this from their dystopian society thinking this is false

I cook the meals my family eats because I grew up eating cooked meals, although what I make is a bit more nutritious. We eat out only a few times a year and I limit the amount of junk my kids eat at home.

The results speak for themselves: this past week ALL the children that live in our apartment complex was sick. All except my daughters. My best friend who lives across the street from me, her 11 year old daughter is way above her weight class, and she might now have diabetes. I have tried for 12 years to convince my friend to change the way she and her kids eat, but she is convinced that her children won't eat healthy.

Here in America, so many people have it in there heads that healthier foods are expensive, yet, the prices of fast food have drastically increased. And I always see long lines at the local McDonald's in my town but the fresh produce aisle are always well stocked. Ridiculous.

Thank you for sharing this study. The food we consume, even healthy foods are labeled as so have such toxic ingredients! I believe everything in moderation so that way your mental health doesn’t suffer

Hope Amy doesnt have an Ed now

Damn Nancy is gorgeous

I feel cheated

I soak whole grains, legumes,seeds,nuts for as long as possible and make a batter from it ,for crepe’s, or purée it for a smoothie, else eat whole grain flour for making roti,bhakri have it with legume salad, some dal,lentil,stir fried vegetables with little oil and yogurt,because I am a vegetarian.

I know it's off topic but they look like Bjork so much

people have become so lazy that they actually no longer want cook food and big multinationals are taking advantage of this.

Never did me any harm. Although it did take a while to adapt to having 3 legs 😮😂

Rubbish food

How on earth are these companies allowed to put literary POISON into these foods and what is our government doing ???
$$$ and yet I'm not allowed to buy unpasteurised from a milk farmer
This is pure EVIL

Heel interessant

Brown bread contains 3x emulsifiers, the pizza i just had, none, and no rubbish. Strange world.

That "sexy" food looked gross to me.

British White low income family live on this rubbish. British White low income families diet,they spend money on tattoos and nailshops instead.

I think they would get better results if they put the twins on a mutual diet for a few months then do tests then split there diet into processed and non processed.

Yeah it's easy to say processed food is bad but when you're strapped for cash and so hungry you will get the cheapest crap

Not fair on Amy 😅

Its terrible to know the effect of ultra processed food.. much worried about the health condition of our society.. how can we go ahead without consuming this kind of food

The government is our own enemy!

emulsifier combine water and fat together, and ultra process food usually contained oil with high omega —6 fatty acids, so it’s the modifier itself or the Omega fatty acids the problem

This is a good piece of article and really good to let people knows what we should do to our health and make a change.

Wow I’m just 2 weeks, I’m guessing they were eating the same amounts of calories, that is crazy. The blood lipids is what got me that can easily give you a heart attack woooooow, I went to the UK and ate processed food let’s say 4 times a week I gained like 5 Kilos in 5 months when I got of that and ate less processed food in 2 months and I have lost 4 kilos proceed food is not a joke it’s a silent killer

And yet...still not as harmful as the ultra-processed experimental drugs pushed by the BBC and sundry establisment fellaters.

I see no mention of the number of calories they were eating.