Processed foods like ramen packets and frozen pizza can hurt your heart — and the globe, study says
Our propensity for packaged ramen lunches, frozen pizza, too much pasta and then soda to wash it all down doesn’t only put our personal health at greater risk over the long run — highly processed diets are damaging the planet, a group of scientists argues.
The connection between human health and environmental factors was laid out in new research and a commentary published this week in the journal BMJ Global Health. Nature’s bounty ignored? More than 7,000 edible plant species can be used for human food, but fewer than 200 species had significant production in 2014, the latest year for complete data, and just nine crops accounted for more than 66% by weight of all crop production, the report said.
“ One study tied every 10 percentage-point increase in the share of the diet made up of ultra-processed foods to more than a 10% increased risk of cardiovascular diseases.”
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