Ultraprocessed foods are defined as "industrial formulations of food substances (oils, fats, sugars, starch, and protein isolates) that contain little or no whole foods and typically include flavorings, colorings, emulsifiers, and other chemical additives," according to the study.该研究对超加工食...
Previous research has pointed to the negative health affects andaddictive qualityof processed foods, but this research provides a broad review of evidence in this area by incorporating the findings of dozens of studies all published in the past three years with nearly 10 million participants total....
Detail recent advancements in the science on ultra-processed food (UPF) addiction, focusing on estimated prevalence rates and emerging health disparities; progress towards identifying biological underpinnings and behavioral mechanisms; and implications for weight management.#Notable developments in the field ...
Theenvironmental impact of ultra-processed foodscannot be ignored any longer. As we become more and more conscious about what we buy and how it is produced, we hold the responsibility to advocate for change. High rates of UPF consumption indicates an essential failure of our food system to pro...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain McMaster University professor Neeraj Narula has discovered that consuming large amounts of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) can increase the risk of Crohn's disease, but not ulcerative colitis (UC). Researchers gleaned their results by analyzing data from five previous...
"Future studies are warranted to improve the classification of ultra-processed foods and confirm our findings in other populations," they added. This study comes after other research published earlier this year found diets high in ultra-processed food are associated with anincreased risk of 32 damag...
Findings from both laboratory animal models and human subject research have shown that the brain reacts in similar ways to the consumption of ultra-processed food (aka highly-palatable foods) as it does to drugs of abuse, leading to behavioral symptoms of tolerance, withdrawal, and craving over...
Dr. Paul Leis, a cardiologist at Mount Sinai West in New York, tells TODAY.com. “The more natural the food is, the better it is for you,” says Leis, who was not involved in the new research. “The focus should be on decreasing processed food consumption and eating more natural foo...
processed or unprocessed foods. However, foods that combined more equal amounts (in calories) of carbohydrate and fat, were more liked and desired than foods containing the same number of calories mostly as carbohydrate, or mostly as fat. This is known, from previous research, as the 'combo'...
“Really all foods are processed to some degree; picking an apple off a tree is a type of processing,” she said in an email. “Processing is often beneficial because it helps ensure food safety and adds to its lifespan, reducing the risk that it will go off causing food poisoning. It...