Research on UPFs should be a wake-up call \u2013 but if people miss out on nutrients in a quest to avoid them, is it really helping?<\/p>\n
If you consumed a lot of news last year, you\u2019d be forgiven for thinking that strawberry yoghurt wants to murder you. Since last spring, a new obsession has spread across Britain: have you heard? Don\u2019t you know? UPF is our new food enemy. What is UPF? It is ultra-processed food<\/a>. What is ultra-processed food? It can include cereal and sausages and fruit-flavoured yoghurts and instant soup. How exactly can I determine if something is ultra-murderous? Anecdotally, my friends don\u2019t seem to know the definition of UPF \u2013 but they do know they should be afraid of it.<\/p>\n Another person who, by his own admission, hasn\u2019t quite mastered the definition is Chris van Tulleken<\/a>, the infectious diseases doctor who wrote the bestselling book Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn\u2019t Food \u2026 and Why Can\u2019t We Stop? At the beginning of his book, he forgoes \u201ca long formal scientific definition\u201d of UPF, instead arguing it can be boiled down to this: \u201cIf it\u2019s wrapped in plastic and has at least one ingredient that you wouldn\u2019t usually find in a standard home kitchen, it\u2019s UPF.\u201d<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Research on UPFs should be a wake-up call \u2013 but if people miss out on nutrients in a quest to avoid them, is it really helping? If you consumed a lot of news last year, you\u2019d be forgiven for thinking that strawberry yoghurt wants to murder you. Since last spring, a new obsession has spread … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}