Posted on 02/02/2023 10:27:33 AM PST by Signalman
our cereal could be killing you.
A new study out of England published Tuesday links ultra-processed foods with heightened risk for developing and dying from cancer.
Researchers at London’s Imperial School of Public Health collected diet data for nearly 200,000 middle-aged adults and monitored their health over roughly 10 years, specifically their risk of developing 34 types of cancer. The medical researchers found that every 10 percentage point increase in the consumption of “ultra-processed” food — defined as items heavily processed during production such as ready-to-eat meals and a majority of breakfast cereals — was associated with a 2 percent rise in cancer incidence and a 6 percent increase in overall cancer mortality. Specifically, a 10-point increase in processed food consumption was associated with a 19 percent increase in ovarian cancer and a whopping 30 percent rise in ovarian cancer deaths.
“This study adds to the growing evidence that ultra-processed foods are likely to negatively impact our health including our risk for cancer,” lead author Dr. Eszter Vamos said in a press release. “Although our study cannot prove causation, other available evidence shows that reducing ultra-processed foods in our diet could provide important health benefits.”
While the study examined U.K. residents, the U.S. and Britain share similar levels of overweight people hooked on processed diets. Processed foods are generally cheaper and more convenient than healthier alternatives and come with high sugar content that makes the packaged products addictive. Prior research from the same team shows that the consumption of processed foods is higher in the U.K. than all the rest of Europe, and it linked processed products with obesity and type 2 diabetes.
“The average person in the UK consumes more than half of their daily energy intake from ultra-processed foods,” said Dr. Kiara Chang, another author of the study. “This is exceptionally high and concerning as ultra-processed foods are produced with industrially derived ingredients and often use food additives to adjust color, flavor, consistency, texture, or extend shelf life.”
In the U.S., the obesity epidemic has swollen to such epic proportions that in January, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released updated guidelines for tackling severe cases in children, including an aggressive regimen of pharmaceuticals and surgeries.
Rather than recalibrate the childhood experience with diet and exercise, the AAP recommends prescribing obese children ages 12 and up one of three medications to bring down their weight. Children 13 and older are recommended to be screened for bariatric surgery, a procedure that was previously considered to be of last resort for even the most severe adult cases. The academy’s primary funders happen to be pharmaceutical companies raking in the profits of turning children into lifelong medical patients instead of healthy, active young people.
Another study out this week, published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s by medical scientists at McGill University in Montreal, reportedly found a link between obesity and Alzheimer’s disease.
Define “Processed”.
Then I will die happy.
The worst food studies come from England, just sayin’. But eventually I’ll read this too.
Well, you got to die of something! Don’t want to be laying in that hospital bed just dying of nothin!
“So that means everyone is going to get struck down in their prime??”
Only if you have ovaries.
Away with all vegetable oils! Butter, lard, and tallow are all you need. Maybe a little chicken fat here and there.
Forgot bacon grease. How could I forget bacon grease?
“Hmmmm. Open face club-sandwedge!”
“Seed oil is in everything except produce, dairy and fish. More important than sugar.”
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Learned a TON more about what the SAD(Standard American Diet) causes when a very nice blockage was found in my RCA and my LAD(widow-maker) was clean. Started having very minor angina in late September(right side) after exertion. So we dropped sugar, carbs, all artificial sweetners(including the one, ACE-K, banned in EU but the FDA says it’s A-OK), and ADDED even more circulatory-cleaning supplements and food to diet. Dropped 15 pounds and pulled best “all normal range” numbers on lipid panels and bloodwork pre-op last week.
Yeah, the food pyramid is inverted, low salt may reward you with a trip to the ER for irregular heartbeat(my doc said add salt after seeing my numbers go low 10+ years ago when I tried to follow “low salt religion” and my sodium/chloride went low), seed oils + sugar/fructose/HFCS in EVERYTHING gives internal inflammation that destroys from the inside out.
Creating healthy patients is NOT a good BUSINESS MODEL.
This I know for a fact:
My feet are killing me.
“Luckily for me, Spam and Vienna Wieners aren’t processed food.” Thank you for telling me that. I was scared for a moment. For without those two food groups I would be left with only potato chips.
Perfect!
Not only will we force you to eat bugs, you’ll eat them raw! Alive and kicking!
/sarc
Homer knows!
What ever gets you out of the bunker...
“ready-to-eat/heat foods”
too broad of a category to be included as “ultra-processed”, because that definition includes a multitude of healthy foods, ranging from fresh salads to pre-cooked meats and meals that simply need to be re-heated before served ...
Agreed, by the common American diseases for having paid close attention to the standard American diet of the past.
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