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

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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Aren't there already? Surgeon General's Warning: Do not drive a pregnant woman under the influence blah blah blah

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I think the point would to be make them like cigarette warning labels. At the moment the text can be hidden on a bottle or can in tiny text. It needs to be a big ugly white box with a black border and large text that gets people's attention.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Nah do it like they do in Europe. Pictures of what it looks like to be held to the bed screaming by a 19y/o who had no idea what they signed up for while an ICU nurse shoves a tube up your ass so that the diarrhea they induced to rebalance your ammonia doesn't dissolve your anus as quickly except she can't get the tube to stay in because your anus has already been slightly dissolved so she keeps shoving the tube back in and you're still screaming because you're in acute alcohol withdrawal and the terrified child they're paying $12 an hour to help the ICU nurse restrain you seems to have snakes crawling out of their dinner-plate sized eyes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

where in Europe do they do that? I live in Europe and that doesn't sound familiar

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm referring to the disturbing images on packaging.

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