The role of ultra-processed foods in obesity
Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 7:24 pm
I'm reading this great article by Carlos Monteiro in a public health journal. http://www.wphna.org/2011_june_wn4_cam8.htm
Nontechnical, very readable. Here's a sample: "When traditional diets disappear, as they have in many high-income countries, in practice the choices – when people can afford them – are between one type of ultra-processed product and another. Hence the vast number of branded products making health claims. In principle anybody – or anybody with the money – can construct an extremely healthy diet from what is available in supermarkets. But, as the rates of obesity in countries like the US and UK show, in practice this is not what is happening."
Nontechnical, very readable. Here's a sample: "When traditional diets disappear, as they have in many high-income countries, in practice the choices – when people can afford them – are between one type of ultra-processed product and another. Hence the vast number of branded products making health claims. In principle anybody – or anybody with the money – can construct an extremely healthy diet from what is available in supermarkets. But, as the rates of obesity in countries like the US and UK show, in practice this is not what is happening."