Ultra-processed food causes 32 diseases
The study in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) links Ultra-processed foods to 32 harmful effects to health, including heart disease, diabetes and depression. The study’s findings highlight the importance of a healthy diet free of Ultra-processed foods. By eating more natural, whole foods, individuals can reduce their risk of chronic diseases.
Ultra-processed foods create an inflammatory condition and contribute to genetic damage, leading to increased overall mortality.
The inflammatory state caused by Ultra-processed foods can lead to long-term health problems, making it vital to watch what we eat.
Examples of Ultra-processed foods include snacks, cookies, pre-cooked breads and packaged meats. Processed foods are often rich in unhealthy fats, sugars and preservatives, which contribute to their unhealthy nature.
The key is to consume foods closer to their natural state and in moderation. By choosing fresh, whole foods, individuals can avoid these negative ingredients.
It is important to have a food culture that includes understanding food labels and making informed choices. If we become aware of what we eat, individuals will make healthier choices. By choosing foods with fewer additives and preservatives, we can reduce our exposure to potentially harmful ingredients.
Governments have a responsibility to protect citizens from the dangers of Ultra-processed foods. Implementing measures such as restricting the sale of soft and sugary drinks to minors can help reduce the prevalence of chronic diseases.
Conclusion
A recent study published in the BMJ highlights the harmful effects of Ultra-processed and depleted foods on our health. By choosing fresh, whole foods and paying attention to food labels, individuals can reduce their risk of chronic disease. Governments should take action to inform and protect citizens from the dangers of Ultra-processed foods by implementing measures such as restricting the sale of sugary drinks to minors.
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We are back.
I am looking at you and I am worried about the rest.
Ms. Vaia Lampadiari. Pathologist and endocrinologist at the National Hospital of Athens and at the Attiko Hospital.
We did all this with this great introduction.
We wish you well.
Thank you, we didn’t want to say anything.
We just wanted to say good morning.
You want to cut our biscuits, cake, sweets…
No, I won’t cut them.
What will you do? I’ll tell you that you can eat them, but you have to deal with them.
Tell us and we’ll be in trouble.
A study was published recently, that’s why Ms Lampadiari is here.
A study was published that says that Ultra-processed foods, processed foods, do harm to our health.
Let’s define what that Ultra-processed foods, those that are processed, do harm to our health.
Can we define what are the Ultra-processed foods? First of all, this is a study in BMJ, a very accurate medical assessment, and it has been very popular, it was also announced on CNN.
It is an important study.
I would like to say that BMJ is a key to this newspaper.
Yes, you continue.
It is a so, as the study was called, which has taken many large studies and summed them up, so to speak, a little easier, to produce some quantitative results in a large sample of people.
We are talking about maybe one million or more.
So, what it showed and unfortunate is that when we use a large amount of Ultra-processed foods, and we will talk about what they are, this is connected to about 32 diseases.
And these are the 32 diseases of our daily life, that is, heart disease, diabetes, hepatitis, asthma, depression and the worst 20% increase in overall mortality.
Because this is a very critical point.
It leads to…
You die more, if we can say so.
What are the over-exerted? Anything that is in a package and is away from the natural food source.
So, snack, biscuits…
You got this one.
I’m listening.
Snack, biscuits, breads, food in supermarkets that are pre-cooked.
I’m getting ready to make…
Where is the cold one? Yes.
Of course, they are not all the same.
They are different.
They are different.
There are more.
We are not talking about details, but the medium products, and I am not talking only about Greece, the medium products that are very popular, of this type, are certainly not healthy.
And what does it mean to be unhealthy? That is it.
First of all, they make a inflammatory state.
All these products, such as energy drinks, such as colds, ready-made chemicals, all of these create an active inflamation for a year and cause genetic damage, which cause all these diseases over time.
We are not talking about eating a biscuit and getting sick, let’s not be extreme.
But when over time, the doses are one dose above one, that’s what the study says, that is, to eat two packets of these a day, or two cookies with milk a day, this can cause all these diseases.
For me, the most impressive thing was the depression and anxiety, especially among young people, because it causes inflammation in the subcutaneous tissue, hyper-consumption and creates behaviors of anxiety disorder.
And of course, the increase in blood pressure.
This is very serious.
It starts to reach the point of smoking.
Yes, so much.
I’m not telling you about the products.
It’s something that’s very common.
For the biscuits, everyone can eat them.
But a cheese sandwich with a toast on top, everyone eats it.
What’s happening there? It depends.
And it’s not all the same.
The more it’s packaged, the more it’s wrapped, so as not to get into too much detail.
We take everything wrapped.
I don’t think that’s it.
There are other things that are…
It’s not all packaged, it’s not all powder.
It’s not all packaged.
It’s not all.
It’s not all.
It’s the oils that are…
I can’t say now…
We can say brands, but they are closer to the natural level.
There are brands, that’s why I said it.
But, for example, turkey sliced, ham sliced…
It depends.
Even these are not all the same.
And how can I read them? We need to have a little education on how we are eating.
Is there a difference between what is in the fridge, packed in a supermarket, and what they cut in front of me? There is a difference, in the sense that what is meat and is cut, and what is powder and is packed in a salt-free package.
When I go to the supermarket, I don’t take the boiled chickpeas, I buy the one that is a fillet of chickpeas.
Because it is assumed that it is more clean and has not been processed.
And of course, it is also a matter of quantity.
One more thing is to eat one slice a day and one more thing is to overconsume.
Because what you said is very important, because for the children in schools, who have parents, we give them…
We don’t want them to buy from the…
We put a piece of bread and a piece of cake in there.
Nothing has happened.
We are not talking about that.
But the majority of the population, and the Minister said it before, the child population is massive.
A child will not be in a hurry to eat a piece of bread.
Will we do it for his health? No.
In the long run, I don’t think anyone hurry to eat a piece of turkey.
But we will do it for its health.
No, in the long run, a piece of turkey will never hurt anyone.
But that’s not what’s troubling them.
If you know what they consume today, only energy drinks, only soda, only snacks, that they buy from a store, let’s not create a problem, But these are the results we see every day.
Okay, half a minute now.
I have two children, so I go to school, but I can’t give them any snack.
No cheese, ham, chicken breast, anything.
I didn’t say that.
What do you give them? A plate of chips you eat in the classroom, it’s not possible.
I didn’t say that.
Of course we can give them a sandwich from home with cheese and milk.
I have taken the cheese from the supermarket, so I can’t take it.
It’s not bad to take cheese, let’s not get confused.
We talked about the highly processed, that is, the highly packaged, the very long-term…
Ah, to look at the daily list, to be close.
Close to the mind and knowledge.
That is, the more conservative a food is, the more it keeps its analysis.
It needs a food culture.
Let me tell you something, there can’t be a simpler way than having to turn every package over, to see things from behind that I don’t quite understand.
There is a very simple way.
What? The less processed a food, the closer to the natural food, the easier it is.
The less you read about it.
Yes.
The last time, a very big discussion about palm oil.
It is one of the things I have adopted.
I look back and say, here, palm oil, but I see other things.
canola oil.
What is palm oil? What does it do? palm oil is a oil that is easy available and used for the processed foods.
It is a product that is not made of any kind of animal products.
It is a product that is used for the process of smoking.
It is cheap and it is available everywhere.
We should look at it.
Because what we said is great.
This is a joke.
No, I’m not saying that.
He said that he doesn’t have any problem with this.
He said that he is used to it.
We are talking about quantity.
Today, we will be happy about the eating on feasts and we will be happy about it.
I don’t see anything about quantity here in our ladder.
I can ask you.
The woman knows very well.
She is a scientist.
Yes.
Great.
So.
She is an endocrinologist.
Why does she know about the amounts? She is a pathologist.
And she says that she doesn’t know about the amounts.
Show us your fortune.
Here, we say it, but since you ask, but okay, we won’t do the double-discount.
Oh, bravo.
Listen, it’s all about measuring.
Everything is a matter of measure.
We eat properly every day in order to be able to eat something more lively.
How many times a week should a person eat meat? These are instructions from international scientific companies.
Red meat should be once as much as possible.
In special populations, women in breastfeeding, in reproduction, in small children, it can be twice as much.
Of course, it also matters how much.
How can I write about special populations? It’s like a question of writing about special populations.
So, twice red meat.
Wait, chicken? Did I say twice about breastfeeding? Once red meat…
Lambs and goats?
Yes.
What is the white-grey one? The red-grey one is the chicken, the rabbit, the rooster.
Oh, the rabbit.
How many times a week? Maybe twice a week.
So, one to two, three times a week.
It’s not a bad thing.
It’s not a bad thing.
It be a good trip.
It will be a good trip.
We will have fish twice.
These are the instructions.
We have problems with the fish.
If you think about how much we pay for the delivery, it is not a problem.
We will have the most expensive fish on the planet.
If we put a line, believe me, it will be more economical.
A week, not a day.
If we think about how much we give for deliveries.
One last thing, at least from me.
We’ve been seeing lately that many people have various disabilities.
And if I ask you, we had this before, I mean, decades ago, and we didn’t know about it.
We’ve now reached the point of the trend of gluten-free products.
And I’m telling you this as a person who can’t eat bread.
I’m crazy about bread.
I would love to eat bread, but I can’t.
I feel it in my stomach.
Simple things.
I don’t have a weight or something.
What’s going on with this? Is it because all the food we eat is too much? It is because it is too much.
It is because today we can interpret the symptoms of previous decades.
There are certainly some disadvantages, not all of them, because they are a bit fashionable.
It doesn’t mean that we should all eat gluten-free.
It doesn’t mean that gluten-free means buying gluten-free products.
There is gluten-free in a natural way.
There is gluten-free in a natural way.
There is gluten-free in a artificial way.
There are people who who have such problems and when we diagnose them, we must give them specific dietary guidelines.
It is always necessary to have a dietitian in the company to work together, because it is necessary.
But it does not mean a suit for everyone.
A fashion does not work for everyone.
And we see the results.
It does not lead anywhere.
And I think we shouldn’t experiment on our own.
Either you lose weight, or you change your diet, the scientist, the specialist, can do it.
We can make mistakes on our own and it can work for a while, but then you are…
Yes, because if you allow me, it’s not just about losing weight, it’s about being healthy.
That’s our problem.
There are people who are thin and have no good health, and others who are a little overweight and have.
It doesn’t mean that what we see exists.
The goal is not to be weak, the goal is to be healthy.
Now, you asked about self-suff the following, Lieutenant.
I would like to say that the new generation of ovens has developed.
They are not like the traditional ones, but they also bring different kinds of bread, a little more expensive than the others.
One is black, the other is black with seeds, the other is dinkel, the other is I don’t know what.
Bread made from bread from bread from bread from bread from Bread made from lentils, bread made from buckwheat.
I did it once, but the lady was looking at me…
It’s a bit of a turbo, if you eat this…
The lady was looking at me and I was like, what is this? What is this doing? I was waiting for five people behind me, she was looking at me and I was like, are you done with this or are we going to sit here? So, you who don’t have anywhere to go, you have to tell us what you do with these breads.
Bread is bread.
We like them, depending on what each person prefers, the more holistic, the better.
Now, flour, this way, flour the other way around, the calories are the same.
Yes, as for the nutritional value.
I see a card here.
The nutritional value is calories.
The other says it’s 3 euros per kilo or 4 euros per kilo.
Try to hide it.
Is it worth giving this money to buy it? This is a good question.
It’s okay.
But we can win in taste.
I’m not talking about taste.
If I like something, I like to give it to someone to buy it.
A bread that is packaged and lasts for a month has a much lower value than a bread that is baked in the morning and is fresh.
Another thing, Tost’s bread.
It’s a problem because we all eat it.
It’s an easy solution.
We all have forgotten Tost’s bread, I swear.
And it’s not bad.
And it’s not bad at all.
I say, it’s not possible.
You look at it, it doesn’t have any lumps, if you take the packaging, there are others that are from the oven, that have the date.
In three days it’s good.
Common sense.
It has sugars in them.
Yes, of course they have sugar in them.
It is assumed that they don’t have many preservatives because there are rules for that.
But there is definitely a process.
It is logical, isn’t it? Another trap we are falling into.
Today we are doing a review.
Now that we have found it, we will do it.
I mean, I will eat a yogurt.
It tastes like vanilla.
What is that? It is a yogurt.
It is a yogurt.
It is a yogurt.
It is not a big problem.
I don’t think anyone is afraid of the yogurt.
But, if we open the natural yogurt, it has been spoiled in two days.
We understand that the natural one is more we understand that the N is more processed.
As for the type, a yogurt is a good dietary option, even if it has a little taste.
But we prefer the natural one.
And what’s broken is that we have a yogurt with 5-6 tablespoons of honey in it.
You can find any dry fruit there and it’s a great source of energy.
It’s a great thing.
For breakfast, it’s a must.
A friend of mine, Dimitris, told us that the Palm oil exists in 80% of the products in supermarkets.
I imagine that he wanted to ask the question if that means we shouldn’t buy them.
We shouldn’t overconsume them.
It’s all about quantity.
Without using any other product, without Palm oil.
And generally, it should be done.
It would be good to focus a little more Yes, without using any Anyway, researchers, to go back to the initial research, the one that should be closed, the BMJ.
They say that, they say from what I read, based on the conclusions, something that governments should do, that they can’t leave things like that, because they saw, they see that there are problems, they recognize, they say it’s not new, we’ve known it for years, something should be done.
For example, in cigarettes, they put out of the past few years, this outside, which is the production, these these photos that are a bit creepy.
They obviously don’t put something in the products, but maybe they should put something.
There are northern Scandinavian countries, for example, in children under 18 years of age, they do not allow the young person to go and buy a soda with more than 100ml of sugar.
They penalizing it.
This is a sign of the fact that it is a good thing.
The fact that the population is informed and some rules are in place is good.
To be fair, as long as a state tries to do something, we should have a food culture.
These energy drinks are a big problem.
They are taken by young people.
They will go out at night to have fun.
They drink one before to endure.
Who knows what is inside? It is turbo.
It is turbo and not only that.
Drinking one at a time is ok, but they consume a lot.
These are for heavy liposuction, for Steatohepatitis.
We see today 17-year-olds who come with transaminases, with large breasts, full of fat and they are overconsuming.
Once I had a barman who had a lot of energy drinks in the bar downstairs.
I told him that all these drinks are for you, not for the night.
He said to me, you know how many bottles of vodka I need with this energy drink.
He said that many people leave every night.
I didn’t notice.
There are studies that say that the young people who overconsume energy drinks have more depression, they have these things in their bodies.
Because it affects the subcutaneous, the brain, the anus and the overconsumption.
Now we are not talking about the upper body, but it is a problem.
Today we will eat a regular chicken or a fifth, whatever everyone has done.
It is not about nutrition, I understood that.
Nutrition is the issue, it key, not just losing weight.
From tomorrow, we will continue with 10 days of red meat, 2 days of white meat and 7 days of sea food.
Fish, sea food, mechanical.
One day, I ate fish, 2 tsipouro at noon, 2 languages at night.
Because he was a man who was still hungry, he opened the fridge and got pasta and soufflé.
You are unbelievable.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much for the interview.
You’re welcome.