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"“It’s not poor willpower,” says Mark Lawrence. The ecological nutrition
professor from Deakin University is a global expert in ultra-processed foods, a
beacon of knowledge in the proliferation of UPFs. “It’s really difficult to
avoid them.”
Australia, alongside the US and UK, has one of the world’s highest consumption
rates of ultra-processed foods which have been linked to “multiple diet-related
chronic diseases”, according to a global report of which Lawrence was a
co-author.
Dr Mathilde Touvier, another co-author, says UPFs have a “strong and consistent
association with cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, depression and
obesity”. So it’s “urgent” that consumers start eating less of them.
“It’s a bit of a battle,” says dietitian Dr Eden Barrett, as about 60% of
packaged foods in Australia would be classified as UPF, according to the George
Institute for Global Health, which assessed more than 40,000 products available
in supermarkets.
“For most people it doesn’t need to be an all-or-nothing approach,” says
Barrett. “Identifying the easiest swaps rather than changing everything at once
might make it a bit easier too.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
