Association of Ultraprocessed Food Consumption With Risk of Dementia

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Food companies to regulators: Please don’t worry about ultra-processed anything

Food companies are pleading with regulators not to focus their attention on ultra-processed foods when they update U.S. dietary guidelines.

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A more recent study.

High intake of ultra-processed food is associated with dementia in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies - Journal of Neurology

Background and aims Poor cardiometabolic health is associated with dementia. Considering previous meta-analyses have confirmed associations between ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and cardiometabolic disease, we were interested in the contribution of UPF consumption to the risk of developing...

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If dementia is not scary enough, ultra-processed foods (UPF) there is also a high all-cause mortality.

A high consumption of ultra-processed foods is associated with higher total mortality in an adult Mediterranean population

Results: After 18 years of follow-up, we documented 312 deaths (36.5 % of CVD and 25.6 % of cancer). Compared with participants in the lowest tertile of UPF consumption, those in the highest tertile showed 40 % higher risk of all-cause mortality, HR 1.40 (95 %CI: 1.04e1.90), and evidence of a higher CVD mortality, HR 1.39 (95 %CI: 0.80e2.41) and of cancer mortality, HR 1.53 (95 %CI: 0.83e2.82).

Conclusions: This study suggests that a high UPF consumption is associated with a higher all-cause mortality in a Mediterranean population after a long follow-up period. Considering the increase in UPF consumption and their detrimental health effects on mortality, these results should be confirmed by other studies in other populations.