Thursday 17 June 2021

Great Documentary - Ultra Processed Foods

I have been enjoying the BBC documentary - "What happened when I ate ultra-processed food for a month"

By using budgetary data, the UK have been able to track peoples' spending on food. They have taken an interesting tack.  They looked at Ultra Processed food, instead of looking at the usual food groups or calories or sugar. In other words, they looked at "raw" ingredients of cooking and compared it with processed food. They mapped this since 1980. The results are very revealing. This method show a strong link between ultra processed foods and obesity and illness.

Of particular interest is how the brain is affected.

If you click the link, you will see the whole documentary.  However, there are much shorter excerpts be be seen by searching for 

 "What happened when I ate ultra-processed food for a month"

And here is the main link:-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles/van_tulleken

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