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Ultra-processed foods need tobacco-style warnings, says scientist (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 months ago by MicroWave to c/world

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UPFs should also be heavily taxed due to impact on health and mortality, says scientist who coined term

Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are displacing healthy diets “all over the world” despite growing evidence of the risks they pose and should be sold with tobacco-style warnings, according to the nutritional scientist who first coined the term.

Prof Carlos Monteiro of the University of São Paulo will highlight the increasing danger UPFs present to children and adults at the International Congress on Obesity this week.

“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 ahead of the conference in São Paulo.

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[–] Feliskatos -3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I don't even know what an "ultra processed food" •IS•.

Ultra-processed food - Wikipedia

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Linking a whole article to answer the question, is a hilarious way to prove his point that most people don't know what an UPF is.

[–] Feliskatos -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hilarious? Folks don't usually downvote things that make them laugh. It was my belief that putting a link up as a follow up to his question was helpful.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Laughing at not with. Hence the downvotes

[–] Feliskatos -4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Did you have a point relevant to UPF? The fact that my post above had maybe 9 upvotes and 12 downvotes does show that some folks found it helpful. In the early days of the publicly-available internet, folks tried to help each other. Now the world is on the edge of WWIII and folks are beating folks down where they think they can. I kinda miss the old internet. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Ignoring your crazy old man rambling, people likely downvoted a link to Wikipedia because it's low effort. If you'd taken a little time to give a short summary and included your link as a source, you would likely have received better reception.

No one wants to say, "I don't understand this very well", only to be told to go read about it. They want human conversation and explanation.

[–] Kiernian 3 points 6 months ago

Holy cow, thank you!