Ultra-processed Foods A Rising Threat To Health: Researchers [Barron's]
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to subject some products made by huge food companies to marketing restrictions and taxes. The international team of researchers also pushed back against criticism of their work on UPFs, saying efforts to "manufacture scientific doubt" on the subject were similar to tactics used by the tobacco industry. Advertisement - Scroll to Continue There has been intense debate in scientific circles about UPFs, with some health and nutrition experts raising concerns that the term is vaguely defined and that more research is needed. However, leading UPF researchers argued in The Lancet medical journal that these foods present too great a danger to wait any longer, calling for action. In the first of three papers, the researchers reviewed 104 previous studies, demonstrating that eating a diet with a lot of UPFs is linked to a higher risk of a range of diseases, including obesity, diabetes, heart problems and early death. The second paper showed that the consumption of UPFs is increasing
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