UPFs include cereals, industrially produced breads, protein bars, fizzy drinks, crisps, ready meals and fast food
Ultra-processed foods get a bad press but their increasing dominance on supermarket shelves and overwhelming evidence they are responsible for a range of health problems across whole populations has heightened concerns.with nutritionist Carlos Monteiro, who coined the term UPF 15 years ago, calling for tobacco-style warnings and a ban on their sale in schools and health facilities..
“UPFs are increasing their share in, and domination of, global diets, despite the risk they represent to health in terms of increasing the risk of multiple chronic diseases,” Monteiro told the Guardian in advance of addressing an obesity conference in Brazil. “UPFs are displacing healthier, less processed foods, and also causing a deterioration in diet quality due to their several harmful attributes.
There should be heavy taxation of UPFs, with the revenue generated used to subsidise fresh foods, he says.
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