Where do you live? In a cave in the Himalayas?
Bet they didn’t include this
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Summary: Ultra-processed foods are linked to accelerated biological aging, as confirmed in a study analyzing over 22,000 people. Researchers found that these foods, high in additives and preservatives, speed up the body’s internal aging clock, independently of nutritional quality. These findings underscore the potential need for dietary guidelines that also consider food processing levels and encourage whole food consumption to promote long-term health.
Original Research: Open access.
“Ultra-processed food consumption is associated with the acceleration of biological aging in the Moli-sani Study” by Simona Esposito et al. Journal of Clinical Nutrition
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Grapes - the anti-processed food.
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UPFs in fake/plant-based meat: What a Study on Ultraprocessed Fake Meat and Heart Disease Really Found | Scientific American . This took forever to come out [just as microplastics in eyedrops study took forever to come out]
[which JD Vance says “isn’t real food”, and he says “if you want to eat vegetarian, eat Indian food”]
Ultra-processed foods include not only packaged snacks or sugary drinks, but also apparently ‘harmless’ products such mass-produced or packaged bread, fruit yogurt, some breakfast cereals or meat alternatives, to give a few examples.
Oh god, it really took a long long time for me to try to develop any disgust response to the non-glucose-increasing ones (and I still don’t have one). Catalina Crunch and Beyond Meat are probably included, and I don’t need them. I don’t eat them very often (maybe ONCE in a while just to try out the taste) but don’t resist if others serve them to me (and there is no necessity b/c I always can eat beans). I’m surprised tempeh is considered UPF…
^fake meat was such a low percentage of the diet it was impossible to tease out. Which is my experience - I rarely eat them, apart from a small binge I once did in April 2022…
Omg I remember when I got REALLY into odwalla bars my first year of early entrance college… [and also sun valley chips b/c they were often the only possible food i could get in the vending machines…] I thought they were healthy, I didn’t realize they were UPFs. But they had added sugar so I pared down on them later, even though they didn’t have any super-obviously problematic ingredients at the time [and it looks like odwalla bars are now DEAD]. And before Odwalla there was Nature Valley granola bars…
Oh, and as for that article, it also shows a non-monotonic relationship with UPF, it showed there was increased mortality for 0th percent UPF relative to a tiny fraction like 8%… and 8% was like 30th percentile for the population which is still SOME fraction of processed foods that isn’t 0 [it’s probably more akin to my rough level of processed foods in my diet b/c I eat them on occasion for novelty’s sake but usually not on my own once I get in a regular routine)
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They never controlled for confounders in this study. They showed very low RR for vegetable dips, but that’s just b/c vegetable dips are a proxy for vegetable consumption and aren’t so bad as to cancel out the benefits of eating vegetables… Some of the foods were just a proxy for SES
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McDonald’s new CEO eats at the chain twice a day (but runs 50 miles a week to burn it off)
Pandemic has sharpened CEO’s focus on pushing the ‘three Ds’ of drive-through, digital ordering and delivery
If Bryan Johnson had a say, they’d add a fourth ‘D’.
“I eat it every day,” he tells me brightly. (Twice a day, in fact, from Monday to Friday.)
His morning routine seems simple. Who will win?
57 year old McDonald’s CEO on the jogging track (with rejuvenation therapies?) vs. 47 year old Bryan?
Lets put it up on Polymarket and vote with our $ ; I know which way I’d vote. 
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A consumer-oriented website for rating / ranking processed foods:
and the database its created from:
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www.truefood.tech
I hope no one out there is eating Clif Bars. (The Cool Mint Chololate is delicious, btw.)
Ah… now thats a disappointment. I always like to carry a few bars when I travel for snacks.
Maybe, but I would suggest the method of classification is nonsense.
Just look at the ice cream section, all of the top scores have high amounts of saturated fat which we know are harmful on average, UPF “processed food”, is a terrible heuristic if it causes you to eat known harmful foods.
This is mostly just the naturalistic fallacy, just like with the term polypharmacy: chimpery, or spirituallity and mysticism, which is applied outside its domain. There’s something magical about processed foods, it’s an entire scam from academia up, all of the paper pushers and researchers need something to get grant funding, then the health magazines and influencers who need to provide for people who think they already are right because of their spirituality and mysticism.
Why hasn’t any of these researchers, done a ITP type study comparing their UPF classified foods with its whole food equivalent (same calories, protein, etc) on mice lifespan?
The N=1 case report of someone who’ve never been sober and the doctor during the excess calories documentary knew that it was alcohol causing the liver problem during it.
Dude was trying Bryan Johnson stuff before it was cool: “Morgan Spurlock’s quest to live forever”. 2015.
Twenty year trends in US youth consumption of UPF.
Thread by @cremieuxrecueil on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App.pdf (861.6 KB)
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In addition to the nearly 125,000 premature U.S. deaths for 2017 and 2018, the study, published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine, also estimated that more than 25,000 Brazilians died prematurely during those years because of poor health outcomes tied to ultra-processed foods.
The researchers’ statistical model also showed more than 17,000 such deaths in Britain during 2018 and 2019 and another 17,000 in Mexico during a single year, 2016.
Open Access Paper:
Premature Mortality Attributable to Ultraprocessed Food Consumption in 8 Countries
https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(25)00072-8/fulltext
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