{"id":25623,"date":"2019-06-01T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/?p=25623"},"modified":"2019-06-04T01:56:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T07:56:58","slug":"ultra-processed-foods-are-associated-with-a-62-higher-risk-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/ultra-processed-foods-are-associated-with-a-62-higher-risk-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultra-processed foods are associated with a 62% higher risk of death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-25641\" src=\"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/comida-ultraprocesada-aumenta-riesgo-muerte.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/comida-ultraprocesada-aumenta-riesgo-muerte.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/comida-ultraprocesada-aumenta-riesgo-muerte-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/comida-ultraprocesada-aumenta-riesgo-muerte-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/>Eating more than four daily rations of ultra-processed foods increases the risk of mortality by 62% for diverse causes of mortality, independently of other causes<\/strong>. Moreover, <strong>for each additional ration the risk grows by 18%<\/strong>. This is the main conclusion of&nbsp; a study in almost 20,000 university graduates from all over Spain who are part of the cohort &#8216;Follow-up University of Navarra&#8217; (SUN), directed by Miguel A. Mart\u00ednez-Gonz\u00e1lez, from the Center for Biomedical Research in the Physiopathology Network of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBEROBN).<\/p>\n<p>The new work, published in the <em>British Medical Journal<\/em>, records the <strong>consumption of food and beverages for 15 years (1999-2014) of 19,899 volunteers (12,113 women and 7,786 men)<\/strong>, through a frequency questionnaire. At the time of the study there were 335 deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Maira Bes-Rastrollo, principal author and researcher at the University of Navarra, affirms that &#8220;<strong><em>previous studies had already found in ultra-processed [foods] the origin of numerous cardio-metabolic health problems, such as an increased risk of overweight and even depression<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the NOVA classification, <strong>ultra-processed foods are industrial formulations made from refined ingredients<\/strong> (sugar, starches, vegetable oils, salt) <strong>or synthesized<\/strong> (trans fats, hydrolyzed protein, additives), and <strong>do not contain any recognizable whole food<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If a product has more than five ingredients, it is probably ultra-processed<\/strong>, such as sugary soft drinks, sausages, sugary dairy desserts, cookies, industrial pastries or breakfast cereals.<\/p>\n<p>They are <strong>characterized by low nutritional quality, convenience<\/strong> (they are ready to be consumed at any time, without the need for preparation), <strong>availability<\/strong> (the environment favors their consumption) <strong>and hyperpalatability<\/strong> (they are extremely tasty).<\/p>\n<p>In addition, <strong>they displace the consumption of beneficial foods and move away from truly healthy eating patterns such as the traditional Mediterranean diet<\/strong>, which has been associated with a strong reduction in cardiovascular risk and breast cancer in the PREDIMED study.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><em>SINC<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eating more than four daily rations of ultra-processed foods increases the risk of mortality by 62% for diverse causes of mortality, independently of other causes. Moreover, for each additional ration the risk grows by 18%. This is the main conclusion of&nbsp; a study in almost 20,000 university graduates from all over Spain who are part &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":25641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-25623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad-en-la-salud","tag-casalud","cat-3-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25623"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25642,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25623\/revisions\/25642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}