In einem neuen Bericht wurde festgestellt, dass hochverarbeitete Lebensmittel eher wie Zigaretten als wie Lebensmittel behandelt werden sollten. UPFs und Zigaretten wurden entwickelt, um Sucht und Konsum zu fördern, sagten Forscher von drei US-Universitäten und wiesen auf die Parallelen bei weit verbreiteten Gesundheitsschäden hin, die beides miteinander verbinden.

Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) have more in common with cigarettes than with fruit or vegetables, and require far tighter regulation, according to a new report.

UPFs and cigarettes are engineered to encourage addiction and consumption, researchers from three US universities said, pointing to the parallels in widespread health harms that link both.

UPFs, which are widely available worldwide, are food products that have been industrially manufactured, often using emulsifiers or artificial colouring and flavours. The category includes soft drinks and packaged snacks such as crisps and biscuits.

There are similarities in the production processes of UPFs and cigarettes, and in manufacturers’ efforts to optimise the “doses” of products and how quickly they act on reward pathways in the body, according to the paper from researchers at Harvard, the University of Michigan and Duke University.

They draw on data from the fields of addiction science, nutrition and public health history to make their comparisons, published on 3 February in the healthcare journal the Milbank Quarterly.

The authors suggest that marketing claims on the products, such as being “low fat” or “sugar free”, are “health washing” that can stall regulation, akin to the advertising of cigarette filters in the 1950s as protective innovations that “in practice offered little meaningful benefit

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0009.70066

You don’t have to be a scientist to completely agree with this

Fast food = fast life.

What exactly is…. ultra processed? EVERYTHING is processed. What makes it ultra? Is there a line, or is it just something we made up arbitrarily?