Die Studie verfolgt sieben Jahre lang US-Bürger ab 55 Jahren und stellt fest, dass der Verzehr von verarbeitetem Fleisch und zuckerhaltigen Getränken im Vergleich zu allen anderen hochverarbeiteten Lebensmitteln mit einem schlechten Gedächtnis und kognitiven Problemen verbunden ist.
https://news.vt.edu/articles/2025/09/clahs-food-cognition-research.html
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Link to study: [Differential association of ultraprocessed food categories with risk of developing cognitive impairment in middle-aged and older adults in a longitudinal panel study](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0002916525000760?via%3Dihub)
Is there a good definition here of what counts as ‚processed‘ for meat? Clearly at one level cooking is processing, but raw meat isn’t really a thing. Obviously things like cured meats are processed, but how far back from that does it go?
Garbage in, garbage out
From the linked extract:
>Specifically, increased consumption of animal products and sugar-sweetened beverages were associated with higher risk of developing cognitive impairment.
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This poses a problem for me since bacon and Pepsi are my two main mental health drugs of choice. Its interesting though that animal products and sugar-sweetened beverages were the two categories that seemed to increase risk, while other ultra-processed foods did not.
I do wonder if it’s more of an overall nutrition aspect (for me, for example, during a high Pepsi week, I’m also much less likely to snack on veggies, bother with whole grains, etc) or if it’s additives, etc in those type of products that’s the problem.
FYI the other categories of UPF they looked at were:
“sweets, spreads, savory snacks, ready-to-eat meals, grains, dairy-based, and other”