- Ultra-processed foods undergo numerous industrial processes and include foods such as instant noodles, ready meals and hot dogs.
- Researchers say a high intake of ultra-processed foods is associated with 32 adverse health outcomes.
- Experts note that ultra processed foods are a common part of the diet in the United States with many people unaware of the health dangers associated with them.
High intake of ultra-processed foods is being associated with increased risk of more than 30 damaging health conditions.
“Greater exposure to ultra-processed food was associated with a higher risk of adverse health outcomes, especially cardiometabolic, common mental disorder, and mortality outcomes,” the study authors wrote.
The researchers conducted an umbrella review of 45 meta-analyses from 14 articles that showed an association between ultra-processed foods and adverse health outcomes. In total, the studies involved nearly 10 million participants.
Food frequency questionnaires, dietary history, and 24 hour dietary recalls were used to measure exposure to ultra-processed foods.
The researchers reported that high intake of ultra-processed foods was consistently associated with an increased risk of 32 negative health outcomes.
The researchers said they found an association between ultra processed foods and all causes of mortality, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, adverse sleep outcomes, adverse anxiety outcomes, asthma, hypertension, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, obesity, metabolic syndrome, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and hyperglycemia, among other diseases and conditions.
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