Nutrition Diva

BONUS: We need a better way to define ultra-processed food

Episode Summary

Some thoughts in response to the latest study linking ultra-processed foods with chronic health conditions and the flaw underlying this research.

Episode Notes

I don't doubt that there's a link between highly-processed junk food and increased risk of chronic disease.  But the way we are defining UPFs threatens to bake an awful lot of privilege into our food policy. 

Related listening:

A provocative new study on ultra-processed foods (Nutrition Diva #735)

Mentioned in this episode:
Ultra-processed food exposure and adverse health outcomes: umbrella review of epidemiological meta-analyses