Ultraprocessed Food and your Heart
“Eating a lot of ultraprocessed food raises the risk of heart attacks, strokes.”
People who eat around nine servings a day of ultraprocessed foods like chips and doughnuts have about a 67% higher risk of heart attacks, strokes and dying from heart disease compared with those who eat about one serving a day, according to a new study.The risks rose with each additional serving a person ate, according to the study published Tuesday in JACC: Advances, a journal of the American College of Cardiology.
The findings add to a growing body of research linking diets high in ultraprocessed foods to a range of health problems. They were released as the Department of Health and Human Services under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. takes steps to discourage eating junk foods, including issuing new dietary guidelines advising Americans to avoid highly processed foods with added sugars and salt, such as packaged chips, cookies and candy.
Nutrition researchers generally define ultraprocessed foods as items containing ingredients that aren’t generally found in a home kitchen, such as high-fructose corn syrup and emulsifiers. Most ultraprocessed foods would be considered junk food and are high in added sugars, saturated fat and sodium.
In the study, researchers followed more than 6,800 adults beginning when they were ages 45 to 84 years old and didn’t have cardiovascular disease. The participants answered questions about what they typically ate. The researchers controlled for a variety of factors that can influence health including tobacco use, physical activity, daily caloric intake, blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
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