Posted on 09/06/2024 12:34:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Name a common condition — heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, cancer, dementia, irritable bowel syndrome — and chances are good that following a diet high in ultraprocessed foods has been linked to it.
But the ultraprocessed food category is large and wide-ranging. It makes up an estimated 73 percent of the U.S. food supply, and contains stereotypically “unhealthy” products like sodas, candies and hot dogs as well as seemingly “healthy” ones like whole grain breads, breakfast cereals, flavored yogurts and plant milks. It’s a “hodgepodge of foods,” some of which are likely more harmful than others, said Josiemer Mattei, an associate professor of nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
On Monday, Dr. Mattei and her colleagues published one of the largest and longest studies on ultraprocessed foods and heart health to date. In it, they analyzed the risks of consuming these foods, and teased out the worst offenders.
An Overall Risk of Ultraprocessed Foods
The new study, published in a Lancet journal, included more than 200,000 adults in the United States. They filled out detailed diet questionnaires beginning in the 1980s and early 1990s, and completed them again every two to four years for about 30 years. Most of the participants in the study were white and worked as health professionals. The researchers looked at how the participants’ ultraprocessed food consumption related to their chances of developing cardiovascular disease.
After adjusting for risk factors like smoking, family health history, sleep and exercise, the researchers found that those who consumed the most ultraprocessed foods were 11 percent more likely to develop cardiovascular disease and 16 percent more likely to develop coronary heart disease during the study period, compared with those who consumed the least ultraprocessed foods. The highest consumers also had a slightly, but not significantly,...
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Have you looked at the ingredients lists for them? I’m not convinced they are “healthy” at all, though probably not as bad as sugary other stuff.
Cow milk. Loaded with dairy fat, hormones fed to the cows to increase production. The protein casein in cow milk has been linked to type 1 diabetes. Anecdotal for sure but I have two type 1 children who had plenty of yogurt and milk in their youth.
You do your milk and I'll do mine.
What are these thickeners?
Guar gum from the guar bean.
Inflammatory.
My half and half comes from pastured cows, with NO antibiotics or hormones, fed vegetarian and kosher diets.
People could not survive without curing of meats before refrigeration. The problem is wheat flour, soy, potatoes, corn and seed oils. Eat good bread, like Daves sprouted seed, fresh fruits and vegetables, and grass fed and finished beef.
True, I drink straight cream, milk and butterfat. no pasteurized processed milk for me.
People could not survive without curing of meats before refrigeration.
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Oh, no doubt!! But, our ancestors did this without all of the modern day chemicals used, today.
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The problem is wheat flour, soy, potatoes, corn and seed oils. Eat good bread, like Daves sprouted seed, fresh fruits and vegetables, and grass fed and finished beef.
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Unfortunately, practically all domestic grains have been adulterated, for production.
We don’t eat any grains.
Supposedly Einkhorn grain/flour is unadulterated. But, we don’t even use/eat that.
We only have grass fed/finished, no antibiotics or hormones, ever beef.
No pork, as it has pretty much all been mNRA jabbed since 2018. You can find unjabbed pork, but, it’s easier to just avoid pork than to have to order from specialized vendors.
Plant milk? Seriously? Either drink milk or don’t, but “plant milk”? YGBSM!
Oh - and whole grain breads are still simple carbs with a bit of useless fiber added. Not good for you, just less bad than Wonder bread.
“Cow milk. Loaded with dairy fat...”
Saturated fat is GOOD FOR YOU! It does NOT result in weight gain, clogged arteries or even higher cholesterol - and the sweet spot for total cholesterol is 190-260, NOT under 200.
7 years of keto and eating lots of cheddar cheese and drinking lots of milk and the only change to my total cholesterol was due to my HDL increasing. More important, I lost 35 pounds, kept it off for 7 years, don’t feel hungry and in fact feel great!
I concur, no wheat grains, oatmeal, and no pork. I keep waiting on a friend to deliver on his butchered pigs for me. Hopefully he will butcher a beef soon, we love the liver and tongue. Well, besides 1/4 for my freezer. Grass raised, and finished. He raises 4-6 at a time, just enough to keep them healthy without shots
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