Ultraprocessed foods make up the bulk of the U.S. food supply and most Americans don’t go a day without eating some. The foods include sugary cereals, frozen dinners, soda, potato chips and ice cream. They've been linked to a host of negative health effects from obesity and diabetes to heart disease, depression, dementia and early death.
FILE - A customer makes a purchase at a convenience store in Boston in this July 12, 2005 file photo. FILE - A woman looks at products in the aisle of a store as her daughter naps in a shopping cart in Waco, Texas on Dec. 14, 2010. FILE - A customer makes a purchase at a convenience store in Boston in this July 12, 2005 file photo. FILE - A customer makes a purchase at a convenience store in Boston in this July 12, 2005 file photo.
Nutrition science is tricky, though, and most research so far has found connections, not proof, regarding the health consequences of these foods. “They have just the right combination of sugar, salt and fat and you just can’t stop eating them,” Prasad said Hall and his colleagues were the first to conduct a small but influential experiment that directly compared the results of eating similar diets made of ultraprocessed versus unprocessed foods., the research included 20 adults who went to live at an NIH center for a month. They received diets of ultraprocessed and unprocessed foods matched for calories, sugar, fat, fiber and macronutrients for two weeks each and were told to eat as much as they liked.
“It’s better to understand the mechanisms by which they drive the deleterious health consequences, if they’re driving them,” he said.Some advocates, like Prasad, argue that the large body of research linking ultraprocessed foods to poor health should be more than enough to spur government and industry to change policies.
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