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”We don’t really know the impact of these products on our health”: Ultraprocessed food & cancer risk
FromThe BMJ Podcast
”We don’t really know the impact of these products on our health”: Ultraprocessed food & cancer risk
FromThe BMJ Podcast
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22 minutes
Released:
Feb 15, 2018
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Podcast episode
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A study published by The BMJ today reports a possible association between intake of highly processed (“ultra-processed”) food in the diet and cancer.
Ultra-processed foods include packaged baked goods and snacks, fizzy drinks, sugary cereals, ready meals and reconstituted meat products - often containing high levels of sugar, fat, and salt, but lacking in vitamins and fibre. They are thought to account for up to 50% of total daily energy intake in several developed countries.
Mathilde Touvier, senior researcher in nutritional epidemiology and Bernard Srour, pharmacist and PhD Candidate, both at INSERM, join us to discuss what ultra processed foods actually are, why it is they could be leading to cancer, and what their cohort study tells us about that potential risk.
Read the full open access research:
http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k322
Ultra-processed foods include packaged baked goods and snacks, fizzy drinks, sugary cereals, ready meals and reconstituted meat products - often containing high levels of sugar, fat, and salt, but lacking in vitamins and fibre. They are thought to account for up to 50% of total daily energy intake in several developed countries.
Mathilde Touvier, senior researcher in nutritional epidemiology and Bernard Srour, pharmacist and PhD Candidate, both at INSERM, join us to discuss what ultra processed foods actually are, why it is they could be leading to cancer, and what their cohort study tells us about that potential risk.
Read the full open access research:
http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k322
Released:
Feb 15, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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