The alarming truth about ultra-processed foods – and why you should stop eating them
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What on earth is UPF? Ultra-processed foods, that’s what, and this latest entry to our modern abbreviated lexicon is likely to be sticking around for a while – much like that bag of salted caramel pretzels (just one example of a UPF) on my hips.
The reason is that health professionals now want us to differentiate between simply ‘processed’ food and UPFs – foods that have been industrially altered to a high degree. Some are obvious, like a cheesy Wotsit, miraculously transformed from a grain o...
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