Posted on 02/11/2019 8:41:21 PM PST by EdnaMode
The quick and easy noshes you love are chipping away at your mortality one nibble at a time, according to new research from France: We face a 14% higher risk of early death with each 10% increase in the amount of ultraprocessed foods we eat.
"Ultraprocessed foods are manufactured industrially from multiple ingredients that usually include additives used for technological and/or cosmetic purposes," wrote the authors of the study, published Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. "Ultraprocessed foods are mostly consumed in the form of snacks, desserts, or ready-to-eat or -heat meals," and their consumption "has largely increased during the past several decades."
This trend may drive an increase of early deaths due to chronic illnesses, including cancer and cardiovascular disease, they say.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
If I had been forced to watch CNN at an earlier age, I certainly would not be alive today.
A better use of research would be to study the additives and identify which ones the common shopper should avoid.
I am waiting for a list . . .
I eat what I want. I am blessed by naturally low cholesterol. I eat mostly fish, chicken, and deer we shoot on my land. I have no problem with beef but my deer meat tastes better. I do not work out but have much exercise keeping up my nine acres of land. I drink and enjoy it and smoke a cigar when my wife is not home but that is a different story. :(
I am 70 years old and statistically will snuff it in 15 or 20 years. I still teach kids how to fly and will not change my lifestyle. I like vegetables also but I do cover them in rich sauces such as Hollandaise or a cream cheese with sour cream and Italian spices. I also cook Mexican food that is the worst of the worst for cholesterol. I have no cholesterol problems as mentioned I am genetically blessed. It tastes wonderful.
I think few would argue we have among the best doctors in the world and possibly the best pharmaceuticals.
Still, on a worldwide country by country average life span, the USA ranks #43.
Countries such as Taiwan, Greece, Ireland, Austria, Spain, France, Norway, Hong Kong, and South Korea all have a longer average life span then we do.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2102rank.html
With many people unwilling to work there will be plenty of time to graze all day, or if you decide you want a job, when you need extra just don't work a day or two. That would also help break the back of the Western Cultural slavery of being required to show up to a job on time.
How's that for adapting to the new world of Occasional Cortex?
So what is the definition of “early death?” Does that mean one day sooner than you would die if you ate nothing but “organic” twigs and grass? And what does “...with each 10% increase in the amount of ultraprocessed foods we eat” mean? What’s the baseline? Are they really saying that someone who never eats processed food, but then has a Twinkie, is at the same risk as someone else who eats mounds of processed food everyday and then increases their intake by 10%?
Like most of these scare studies, the numbers as presented are meaningless.
And all of that aside if some big hunk of iron comes barreling in here at about 40,000 mile an hour from space well, it’s game over. That has happened, stuff impacts the old planet all the time and some day *POW!** we’re gonna get it right in the old cosmic kisser. So I’m gonna eat fat greasy cheese burgers, T-Bone steaks, stand with the refrigerator door open, talk to strangers and run through the house with a pair of scissors.
Quacks!
My ancestral people, the Irish, have a saying : “The longer you live, the sooner you die’’.
Wheat is just another carbohydrate with 76 grams of carbohydrates/100 grams. Milk has a high amount of carbohydrates, 60grams/100 grams and raisins have 64grams/100 grams eaten. Sugar is 100% carbohydrate with 100 grams/100 grams eaten.
Some carbohydrates are absorbed into blood faster than others. It is eating foods, like sugared soft drinks that the carbs are absorbed the fastest. It is this spike in blood sugar that can set up a reaction where the immune system attacks the insulin meant to regulate the blood sugar to safe levels. Some people have some kind of poorly understood mechanism that sets up diabetes, when the immune system overreacts to insulin. Slowly digested and absorbed carbohydrates such as sweet potatoes, steel-cut oats, whole grain pasta, barley, quinoa, beans, lentils, nonstarchy vegetables and fruits, do not cause blood sugar spikes.
The drug overdose situation is causing the U.S. average lifespan to decrease.
Like all of that Vego-processed crap to mimic the verboten foods?
Would Soylent Green be considered ‘ultraprocessed’?
Being born accelerates your risk of early death, unless of course you are the unlucky enough to be the fetus of a liberal abortion mommy, then all bets are off.
”We face a 14% higher risk of early death with each 10% increase in the amount of ultraprocessed foods we eat.”
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Yes. Utterly meaningless.
This is from the same sort who bring us climate change.
Those averages include all the gang and inner city murders. Skews US down.
I read that and was reminded that 73.24% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Jack LaLanne called it back in the 1950s.
Processed foods contain preservatives, which are basically poisons used to kill bacteria.
The fewer poisons you consume, the better. Fresh food is always best!
So what’s an example of ultra processed? Twinkies? Mc Donald’s? Anything made by Frito Lay?
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