Fresh health warning over ultra-processed foods as 30-year study warns they marginally raise your risk of an early death - but not ALL types of UPFs will send you to an early grave, experts warn Harvard University researchers tracked 115,000 Americans over three decades READ MORE: Ultraprocessed foods are 'harmful to EVERY part of the body' By Emily Stearn, Health Reporter For Mailonline Published: 18:30 EDT, 8 May 2024 | Updated: 18:30 EDT, 8 May 2024 e-mail View comments Eating too many ultra-processed foods (UPFs) may send you to an early grave, a study suggests. Ready meals, fizzy drinks and ice creams appear to pose the greatest danger to human health. Harvard University researchers tracked 115,000 healthy US adults over the course of three decades.
Four per cent more deaths occurred among participants who ate around seven servings of junk a day, compared against a group who ate half as much. While the risk was only small, the team argued their findings echoed calls to limit certain types of UPFs. Your browser does not support iframes.
The Nova system, developed by scientists in Brazil more than a decade ago, splits food into four groups based on the amount of processing it has gone through. Unprocessed foods include fruit, vegetables, nuts, eggs and meat. Processed culinary ingredients — which are usually not eaten alone — include oils, butter, sugar and salt The umbrella term is used to cover anything edible made with colourings, sweeteners and preservatives that e.
