Similarly, the risk of heart disease of any kind increases by less than 1% per 5 years when you go from eating very few of these foods to eating a lot of them /15
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But to an individual? To you and me? I don't think these results mean all that much 26/
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If your diet is currently more than a quarter ultra-processed foods like fast food, prepackaged meals, and biscuits, it might be a good idea to cut back You probably already knew that, though 27/
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If, like most of us, you have the occasional sneaky cookie, you probably don't have to worry all that much 28/pic.twitter.com/zderkojK9C
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This thread got a bit long, so to sum up: - processed foods may be bad for health - we aren't sure if it's the food or society - the impacts are important to governments, not as much for individuals 29/
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P.S. I forgot to mention, I did write about another almost identical study last year (using the same cohort of people as the French one) here https://medium.com/@gidmk/processed-food-isnt-killing-you-43556b943bd6 … 30/
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In this piece, I go through the same issues, but my conclusion is a bit different As any scientist will tell you, evidence moves on! 31/
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I'm still not entirely convinced that ultra-processed foods are independently bad - or indeed that this is always a useful category at all - but these studies and
@KevinH_PhD's recent work has changed my mind a bit 32/Show this thread -
I would still argue that societal changes are almost certainly the bigger issue here, but I suspect that reducing our consumption of ultra-processed foods would be a good first step 33/
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P.P.S. I think this point from
@Botanygeek is also very important - "processed" and "unprocessed" are heavily culturally influenced, which is one of the biggest issues with talking about the results of these studieshttps://twitter.com/Botanygeek/status/1133997826399186944 …Show this thread -
Pocast is now out on the studies in this thread - have a listen!https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1134628919938822145 …
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