Junk Food Hikes Risk of 32 Diseases and Health Conditions — Including Death: Scientists

New York Post ^ | 2/29

[nickcarraway]

A new study has found an association between ultra-processed foods and over 30 health complications, including depression, sleep disturbances and death related to cardiovascular disease.

“Overall, direct associations were found between exposure to ultra-processed foods and 32 (71%) health parameters spanning mortality, cancer, and mental, respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, and metabolic health outcomes,” study author Dr. Melissa Lane, an associate research fellow at Deakin University, told South West News Service.

Ultra-processed foods — low-cost, easy-to-prepare items like cereal bars, frozen meals and pre-packaged snacks — comprise 60% of Americans’ diets and have been previously linked to poor health outcomes like cancer or cognitive decline. But the latest research, published Wednesday in the BMJ, is an “umbrella review” of 45 scientific reports published during the previous three years, including data from nearly 10 million patients and volunteers.

[blackdog]

Have you ever followed a deer, pig, mountain Goat or Sheep in the wild? Observe what they eat and how much. They will only feed on one source of feed in the wild for no more than five minutes before moving on to something else. A varied diet. No too much of any one thing.

It takes domesticated animals to eat themselves to death. And humans are domesticated animals too.

[Bobbyvotes]

I eat lots of junk food. It looks like it has no adverse effects on me due to regular exercise. Without exercise, junk food will kill you sooner.

[dfwgator]

eat healthy, avoid drugs, exercise and die anyway.

True. But do you really want those last 10 years to suck?

[Bobbyvotes]

Best cancer prevention is burning up excessive sugars & fats I blood via exercise. Cancer cells love to gobble up sugars. When PET scan is done to detect cancer tumors, the patient is given radiated high glucose fluid. The cancer tumors light up like a Christmas.

[blackdog]

Funny proof yesterday.

I ran out of flour. Unbleached, unbromated, non-enriched, high gluten flour I buy in 50 pound bags. I needed 200 grams more for my bread dough so I tossed in some store brand flour my wife had bought at Christmas to make cookies, to complete my 600 gram batch of bread dough.

The yeast I use won't eat it. Really. The yeast is smarter than humans. After 2 days of the yeast's refusal to eat store bought flour, I put it into the mulch pile.

Fortunately my new bag of flour (50#) arrived today. (King Arthur High Gluten, Sir Lancellot Flour)

[moovova]

"NUTS!"

[Bobbyvotes]

Best cancer prevention is burning up excessive sugars & fats I blood via exercise. Cancer cells love to gobble up sugars. When PET scan is done to detect cancer tumors, the patient is given radiated high glucose fluid. The cancer tumors light up like a Christmas tree.

[Faith65]

bfl

[blackdog]

Some of our earliest laws in our colonial beginnings were those aimed at food purity. To be a town baker you were under tremendous strains on grain stocks for flour. Adding other substances like bone meal, ash, Cellulose, etc.... to keep your business going could get you hung in the town square.

Some interesting adulterations to coffee, bread flour, tea, cheeses, sausages, sorghum, molasses, were wildly reported. Some were legally accepted in foodstuffs like beer, coffee, and teas, but bread and meats were governed by legal purity laws.

History always leaves us with the same problems.

[NetAddicted]

I’ve been reading articles like this since I moved to Santa Fe at 18 and started going to the Co-op. They’re behind the times.

[xp38]

climate change causes cancer ;)

[beethovenfan]

Everything is bad for you.

[roving]

Everything kills you. I don’t even listen with this stuff anymore.

[Hiddigeigei]

"How can I avoid being killed by death?"
Start by taking recommendations from the federal government in Washington with a grain of salt.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Kind of a “duh”. If what you eat has 30 ingredients you can’t pronounce, it is probably very unhealthy. Real food is probably best for you. Ocassional junk food is fine. Some people are living off it. Many of them are poor. It is food stamp day, so off to the local 7-11 to load up on artificial food.