Cognitive Decline Linked To Ultra Processed Food, Study Finds

[Julieanne]

Sandee LaMotte
August 1 2022

Eating ultraprocessed foods for more than 20% of your daily calorie intake every daycould set you on the road to cognitive decline, a new study revealed.We all know eating ultraprocessed foods that make our lives easier -- such as prepackaged soups, sauces, frozen pizza and ready-to-eat meals -- isn't good for our health. Nor is gobbling up all the pleasure foods that we love so much: hot dogs, sausages, burgers, french fries, sodas, cookies, cakes, candies, doughnuts and ice cream, to name just a few.

Ultra-processed foods now account for two-thirds of calories in the diets of children and teens
Studies have found they can raise our risk of obesity, heart and circulation problems, diabetes and cancer. They may even shorten our lives.

Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/01/h...ess/index.html

[Islander]

You never know what strangers wander into our site and find this particular study surprising, but for regular longtime members, it's a given. I might mention that I am one of a crowd, sort of a large panel of customers who patronize the Hannaford supermarket chain here in the Northeast. We are frequently polled on our attitudes toward what they are calling "Timesavers" and what are merely a long list of convenience foods. I suppose a lot of working parents value this sort of commodity.