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    Studie: Wer mehr hochverarbeitete Lebensmittel zu sich nahm, hatte eine geringere Knochenmineraldichte und ein höheres Risiko für Hüftfrakturen


    Studie: Wer mehr hochverarbeitete Lebensmittel zu sich nahm, hatte eine geringere Knochenmineraldichte und ein höheres Risiko für Hüftfrakturen

    https://news.tulane.edu/pr/eating-more-ultra-processed-foods-linked-poorer-bone-health-study-finds

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    1. sr_local on

      > People consumed, on average, about 8 servings of ultra-processed foods per day, according to the study, which involved more than 160,000 participants from the UK Biobank database. **For every 3.7 extra servings eaten per day, the risk of hip fracture increased by 10.5%**. While servings differ among food types, that amounts to a frozen dinner entree, a cookie and a soda.

      > “Our study cohort was followed for over 12 years, and we found that high intakes of ultra-processed foods were linked to a reduction in bone mineral density at several sites including key areas of the upper femur and the lumbar spine region,” said co-corresponding author Lu Qi, HCA Regents Distinguished Chair and professor at the Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University. “**While recent studies have shown that ultra-processed food consumption can affect bone health, this is the first time this relationship has been examined directly in humans**.”

      [Associations of ultra-processed food intake with bone mineral density and fractures in the UK Biobank | British Journal of Nutrition | Cambridge Core](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-nutrition/article/associations-of-ultraprocessed-food-intake-with-bone-mineral-density-and-fractures-in-the-uk-biobank/7CA7969F214AF653D5DDD3F5D35C2795)

    2. TheBosk on

      It all boils down to our two most important resources. Time and money (at least in a capitalist society). Don’t have a lot of either? Processed foods are your „answer“. Have enough of both? You are probably an ingredient house hold. Socioeconomic status is a huge underlying health factor. We’ve known it forever, now can we please just do something about it?

    3. AllanfromWales1 on

      It is, of course, perfectly possible to eat a nutritionally balanced diet which includes significant quantities of UPFs. However, I would speculate that the proportion of high UPF consumers who do eat a nutritionally balanced diet is significantly lower than for low UPF consumers. Was this potential confounding factor considered in this study?

    4. WaldoWal on

      I would really appreciate a better way to identify „ultraprocessed“. If I buy quick cooking oats that have „organic oats“ as the only ingredient, is the fact they „buffed“ them to make them cook faster make them ultraprocessed? If I buy a soup with all good looking ingredients, does a higher salt % make them ultraprocessed? What’s the %? If I cook whole grain rice and add some butter, did I just ultraprocess it? If I bake cookies with all whole ingredients, is it still immediately ultraprocessed? Is it the removal of whole grains? Is it the addition of other stuff? What matters and what doesn’t?

    5. ThoughtsandThinkers on

      We need a better definition of ultra processed foods:

      Is it the basic composition of foods re high fats, sugars, and salt?

      Is it additives and preservatives?

      Is it something about how the food is processed (eg cooking method) or packaged (eg microplastics)?

      Are there correlations with other variables like income or rushed eating that could explain the negative impacts, not involving the actual food?

    6. DingleDangleTangle on

      I’m sure that it does affect bone health considering there are multiple studies showing it, but it is worth realizing that people who eat a lot of this type of food are often living less healthy lifestyles in general.

      I mean if you’re eating junk food every day you probably aren’t working out, you aren’t getting all the micronutrients you need, and you’re probably more likely to have a higher stress life since you likely don’t have time/money for better food. People who are eating more whole foods probably care more about diet and exercise in general and have the means to achieve those things.

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