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Eating more Most spoiled foods It is associated with high risk A failure of knowledge And stroke, Although one is trying to respect a Mediterranean dietof DASH diet or the Mental nutritionA new study found.
All three diets are plant-based, focusing on eating less sugar, red meat and more fruits and vegetables, whole grains, beans and seeds. Most spoiled foods.
“If you add you Highly processed food Taking 10% increased your chance of cognitive impairment by 16%, according to the study. He did not participate in the study.
“You can always draw a straw and say, ‘Well, if someone increases their consumption of highly processed foods by 100%, they’ll have 160% cognitive impairment.’ “Of course, this study only shows an association, not direct cause and effect.”
On the flip side, eating more unprocessed or minimally processed foods was associated with a 12 percent lower risk of cognitive impairment, the study found. Published on Wednesday In the Journal of Neurology.
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Eating highly processed foods like hot dogs is linked to a higher risk of stroke and cognitive decline, according to a new study.
Unprocessed foods include fresh fruits and vegetables, eggs, and milk. Minimally processed foods Include ingredients such as salt, herbs and oils, and foods that combine cooking and unprepared foods such as canned goods and frozen vegetables.
Highly processed foods include canned soups, soups, frozen pizza, ready-to-eat meals, and other items such as dogs, sausage, French fries, sodas, store-bought cookies, cakes, candies, donuts, ice cream, and much more.
Such foods are often high in calories, added sugar and salt, and low in fiber, all of which experts say can lead to cardiometabolic health problems, weight gain, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and high blood pressure.
The study analyzed data from 30,000 people participating in the REGARD study for geographic and racial disparities in the stroke study, 50% white and 50% black, who were followed nationally for up to 20 years.
According to study author and neurologist Dr. W. Taylor Kimberly, MD, chief of the Massachusetts Department of Neurocritical Care, stroke risk was 8% higher for people who added highly processed foods to their diet. General Hospital in Boston.
That risk rose to 15% for black participants, likely due to the effect of higher blood pressure in that population, Kimberly says. However, if a person ate more unprocessed or minimally processed foods, the risk of stroke was reduced by 9 percent, the study found.
What are the most processed foods that can sabotage your efforts to follow a healthy diet? It may be poor nutrient absorption and a tendency for blood sugar to rise, which can lead to type 2 diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, said Pepe Gao and Zhendong Mei. Editorial published with the study.
Mei is a medical research fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and Gao is a visiting graduate student in nutrition at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health in Boston. Neither participated in the study.
Type 2 diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure and high cholesterol are key risk factors for coronary artery disease in the heart and brain, they write.
Effects on blood vessels that lead to stroke and cognitive decline may be linked to “disruption of gut microbial ecology and inflammation due to the presence of additives including emulsifiers, dyes, sweeteners, and nitrites/nitrites.” Added.
Studies are piling up about the harmful effects of eating highly processed foods. As a February review 45 meta-analyses on nearly 10 million people, say 10% more Most spoiled foods It increased the risk of developing or dying from dozens of health conditions.
That 10 percent increase was considered “basic,” and adding more sophisticated foods could increase the risk, experts say.
According to the review, there was strong evidence that high intakes of ultra-processed foods were associated with a 50% higher risk of cardiovascular disease-related deaths and common mental illnesses.
Researchers also found encouraging evidence that eating too much processed food increases the risk of obesity by 55 percent, sleep disorders by 41 percent, type 2 diabetes by 40 percent, and depression by 20 percent.
“We really need to put a label in the highly processed food section or on the packaging, like on cigarettes, that says, ‘Warning, this food may harm your health,'” Freeman said.
“What we think of as ‘convenience food’ really needs to change from a packet of chips to an apple or carrot that sits on the shelf and can travel in your purse or bag,” he said. “We need to make this kind of thing more readily available, especially for our children and in food deserts where all the food available is often highly processed.