MicroWaveJun 27, 2024

Ultra-processed foods need tobacco-style warnings, says scientist

https://lemmy.world/post/16978728

Ultra-processed foods need tobacco-style warnings, says scientist - Lemmy.World

UPFs should also be heavily taxed due to impact on health and mortality, says scientist who coined term Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are displacing healthy diets “all over the world” despite growing evidence of the risks they pose and should be sold with tobacco-style warnings, according to the nutritional scientist who first coined the term. Prof Carlos Monteiro of the University of São Paulo will highlight the increasing danger UPFs present to children and adults at the International Congress on Obesity this week. “UPFs are increasing their share in and domination of global diets, despite the risk they represent to health in terms of increasing the risk of multiple chronic diseases,” Monteiro told the Guardian ahead of the conference in São Paulo.

Show threadli10Jun 27, 2024

Will that achieve anything?

People know the effects, people see the effects, people don’t care.

Just seems like a silly outdated idea. Isn’t it well established that the best way to stop people from buying stuff like this is plain white packaging and advertising restrictions?

Show threadKiernianJun 27, 2024

Do they?

I don’t even know what an “ultra processed food” •IS•.

How is it different than the “processed cheese product” that passes for most individually wrapped “American cheese” cheese slices? Or is that ultra processed?

Are Doritos ultra processed or just the regular kind of processed?

Which kind of ground beef qualifies for “ultra”? Only the pink slime or anything that’s been chemically treated?

I’m not being a pedantic contrary asshat, I legitimately do not know what qualifies something to be in this category and why it’s worse than normal processing.

Bpa from plastic tubing used in the processing of Annie’s organic leeched into the food. Is that considered contamination or a side effect of processing?

Show threadFeliskatos 🐱Jun 27, 2024

I don’t even know what an “ultra processed food” •IS•.

Ultra-processed food - Wikipedia

Ultra-processed food - Wikipedia

Show threadgopher510Jun 27, 2024
Linking a whole article to answer the question, is a hilarious way to prove his point that most people don’t know what an UPF is.
Show threadFeliskatos 🐱Jun 27, 2024
Hilarious? Folks don’t usually downvote things that make them laugh. It was my belief that putting a link up as a follow up to his question was helpful.
Show threadgopher510Jun 27, 2024
Laughing at not with. Hence the downvotes
Show threadFeliskatos 🐱
Did you have a point relevant to UPF? The fact that my post above had maybe 9 upvotes and 12 downvotes does show that some folks found it helpful. In the early days of the publicly-available internet, folks tried to help each other. Now the world is on the edge of WWIII and folks are beating folks down where they think they can. I kinda miss the old internet. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Jun 27, 2024 at 11:53pmWeb
Show threadHalosheepJun 28, 2024

Ignoring your crazy old man rambling, people likely downvoted a link to Wikipedia because it’s low effort. If you’d taken a little time to give a short summary and included your link as a source, you would likely have received better reception.

No one wants to say, “I don’t understand this very well”, only to be told to go read about it. They want human conversation and explanation.