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Exercise can’t make up for a poor diet, but it can help change eating habits. Regular exercise improves the brain and cognitive processes that help regulate junk food consumption and reduces stress.
Sixty percent of the Standard American Diet consists of ultra-processed food, which isn’t great for colon health. Researchers are looking into whether artificial food colors play a role.
Ultra-processed foods high in sugar, fat and empty carbs are bad for the mind as well as the body. Lack of micronutrients affects brain function and influences mood and mental health symptoms.
Ultra-processed foods meet the same criteria for addictiveness that tobacco products do – and they’ve even been marketed in similar ways.
It’s not clear how health claims could be substantiated, enforced or understood, but there are other ways to encourage healthy food choices.
Big Food companies producing ulta-processed foods are using a range of key market and political practices to increase their reach, particularly in developing countries.
Many plant-based products contain similar ingredients to ultra-processed foods.
Our research provides clear evidence pro-inflammatory diets are linked to poor health, including heart attacks, bowel cancer and depression.
We looked at 37 studies which show eating ultra-processed foods is bad for our health. So why are we eating more of them than ever before?
All food is processed – and that’s a good thing.
To understand how healthy a food is, we often look at fats and proteins, vitamins and minerals. But this approach overlooks one property that’s a key part of a food’s health potential – its structure.
Ultra-processed products have little or no intact ‘food’ remaining in them. And much-praised industry led reformulation is doing nothing effective about this.
Processed foods can be nutritious as well as economical and convenient. So let’s stop demonizing processed foods, and ease up on those who turn to them for convenience and price.
Robust new study finds weight gain may be due to more than just the calories.
The study showed that every 10% increase in consumption of ultra-processed food was linked to a 12% increase in developing some types of cancers. But it didn’t show the processed food caused cancers.
The latest study linking diet with cancer has many flaws.
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Professor of Public Health Nutrition, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Deakin University
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Research Fellow, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Deakin University, Deakin University
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Associate Professor of Gastroenterology, School of Medicine, University of Washington
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Research Fellow, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, Deakin University
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Associate lecturer, Nutritional Biochemistry, University of Hertfordshire
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer Population Nutrition, Deakin University
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Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
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Professor, University of the Western Cape
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Postdoctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins University
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Lecturer in Department of Human Nutrition and Dietetic, University of Limpopo
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Senior Lecturer in Environmental Sustainability, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, Engineering & Built Environment, Deakin University
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Associate Professor in the SAMRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Psychology, University of Canterbury
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Researcher, University of the Western Cape
