Ultra-transformed foods could shorten your life

These donuts, cakes and ready -to -eat meals could satisfy your taste buds, but they have a high price. Although foods often practical and delicious and ultra-treated (UPF) are increasingly linked to serious health risks.

Recent research adds more evidence to the link, revealing that these indulgent foods could not only harm your short -term body, but they could also considerably shorten your life expectancy.

Researchers have developed a model to estimate the relative risk of mortality all causes on the basis of food consumption data in the eight countries. The results published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine revealed that in countries like Colombia, ultra-adjustment foods represented 15% of the total calorie contribution, while in the United States, this figure rose to more than 50%.

The study also discovered a worrying trend: countries with lower ultra-transformed food consumption had an increased risk of death by 4%, while in countries with the highest levels of these types of food consumption, such as the United States, the risk increased to almost 14%.

“For example, in 2018, 124,000 premature deaths were attributable to the consumption of UPFS in the United States,” said the main investigator of the study, Eduardo Augusto Fernandes Nilson in a press release.

“We have examined the risk of a dying person to eat more ultra-transformed foods between 30 and 69 years old, a time when it would be premature to die. We found that for each increase of 10% of total calories from ultra-treated food, the risk of dying prematurely by almost 3%,” said the Brazil study.

Although previous studies have found the effects on the health of ultra-transformed foods, this study is significant because it provides evidence of a “linear dose-response association between ultra-suitable food consumption and all causes of causes of causes”.

Based on the results of the study, researchers call for urgent action, stressing that “policies that disincile the consumption of UPFS are necessary urgently on a global scale”.

“It is concern that, although in high income countries, the consumption of the UPF is already high but relatively stable for more than a decade, in low and average income countries, consumption has continuously increased, which means that if the burden attributable in high income countries is currently higher, it grows in other countries,” added Nilson.