Here’s an article about what “Food Like Substances” * are doing to the world’s health.
A global analysis found that consumption of ultraprocessed food (UPF) is linked to premature deaths from all-cause mortality, demonstrating a linear dose–response relationship. As the proportion of UPFs in an individual’s total energy intake rises, so does the risk for premature death.
Despite knowing that the impact was expected to be high, “the numbers are significant,” lead author Eduardo Nilson, DSc, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brasilia, Brazil, told Medscape Medical News.
Our findings suggest that some of these premature deaths could potentially be prevented “by reducing UPF consumption,” said Nilson.
UPFs are defined as ready-to-eat or heat industrial formulations that are made with ingredients extracted from foods or synthesized in laboratories, with little or no whole foods in their composition, according to the NOVA classification used for the analysis.
These foods are becoming dominant in the global food supply and “already account for over half of the average daily energy content of the diets in many high-income countries,” authors of the study wrote.
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*“Food-like substances” is a term coined by Michael Pollan to describe highly processed industrial foods that are not whole, natural ingredients. These substances are often engineered from highly refined ingredients like cheap vegetable oils, flours, and sugars, and are then processed and enhanced with additives to make them more palatable.
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