Ultra-processed food increases risk of early death, international study finds | Ultra-processed foods
Large quantities of ultra -treated foods (UPF) consume the risk of premature death, according to an international study that sparked calls to a UPF campaign.
Every 10 % of UPF’s additional income, such as bread, cakes and ready -made meals, increases the risk of a person before it reaches 75 by 3 %, according to research in countries including the United States and England.
UPF is so harmful to health that it is involved in up to one of seven of all early deaths that occur in some countries, according to a paper in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
It is linked to 124,107 early deaths in the United States per year and 17781 deaths every year in England, and found a review of food and death data from eight countries.
Eduardo Augusto Fernandez Nelson, the lead researcher in the study, of the Oswaldo Cruise Foundation in Brazil, said that additions such as localities and flavors are harmful to health and not only high fat levels of fat, salt and sugar.
The authors found a “linear connection to the response to the dose between high -treatment and comprehensive food” when they studied official investigative studies previously conducted in the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Chile and Mexico.
While 4 %, 5 % and 6 % of early deaths in Colombia, the Brazil and Chile, respectively, “is due to UPF consumption”, the equivalent percentage is 10.9 % in Canada, 13.7 % in the United States and 13.8 % in England – the highest percentage between the eight countries.
The researchers concluded that “the early deaths that are due to the consumption of highly treated foods increases significantly according to their text in the total amount of energy for individuals. A high amount of UPF can significantly affect health.”
Mortality rates are the highest in countries where the population gets the largest amount of the total energy of eating in UPF.
In England, 53.4 %, according to the National Diet and Nutrition Survey conducted in 2018-19. But it is higher in the United States – 54.5 %.
Nelson said: “We first estimated a linear correlation between UPFS and fully deaths, so that each increase increases by 10 % in the UPFS participation in the diet from the risk of death from all causes by 3 %,” Nelson said.
“UPFS affects health outside the individual effect of the high content of critical nutrients – sodium, unsaturated fats and sugar – due to the changes in foods during industrial treatment and the use of artificial ingredients, including filled materials, artificial flavors and localities, emulsions, many other additives, treatment processing tools, so assessing deaths from all causes related to the effect on the effect on the effect on the effect on the effect Health.
While the UPF’s health disorder is the highest in high -income countries, it grows in low and medium -income countries, as Nelson added.
The authors urged governments all over the world to provide bold measures to treat UPF, including more hardening food marketing and food sale in schools and workplaces, as well as UPF products to reduce sales.
The results add to an increasing group of evidence that links UPF to a greater risk of specific diseases, such as cancer and heart disease, and an increase in the risk of death in general 75 years ago. However, they found a relationship between UPF and early death, and this is certainly not causing the other.
For example, American research It was published last year in BMJ that people who consume more than 4 % higher risk of death in general and 9 % greater risk of death than something other than cancer or heart disease. Mone meat, sugar and fast -processed breakfast, such as pills, such as the most healthy UPF products.
to divide health A social welfare spokesman said: “We have already taken measures to end the targeting of unwanted food ads for children, via television and online, and we delivered the local authorities stronger powers to prevent requests to the new machine near schools,” said social welfare spokesman.
“We also commission research to improve evidence of the healthy effects of super treatment foods. Through our plan for change, we will convert the concentration from the disease to prevention, and reduce the burden of obesity on public services and NHS.”
