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PARIS (AFP) – Ultra-processed foods are commonly portrayed as a modern health scourge: a threat lurking on the shelves of every supermarket linked to obesity, heart disease, cancer and early death. Researchers warning of their dangers have called for taxation and even bans of products which make up a huge proportion of the food eaten […]

Ultra-processed foods are commonly portrayed as a modern health scourge: a threat lurking on the shelves of every supermarket linked to obesity, heart disease, cancer and early death. Researchers warning of their dangers have called for taxation and even bans of products which ma...

PARIS — Ultra-processed foods (UPF) are commonly portrayed as a modern health scourge: A threat lurking on the shelves of every supermarket linked to obesity, heart disease, cancer and early death.Researchers warning of their dangers have called for taxation and even bans of products which make up a huge proportion of the food eaten worldwide.

Ultra-processed foods are commonly portrayed as a modern health scourge, but are all them really that unhealthy? Here's what the experts say.

​Researchers warning of their dangers have called for taxation and even bans of products which make up a huge proportion of the food eaten worldwide.

Ultra-processed foods are commonly portrayed as a modern health scourge: a threat lurking on the shelves of every supermarket linked to obesity, heart disease, cancer and early death.According to the NOVA scale, nearly 60 percent of the calories eaten in the United States and UK are from UPFs. - 'Confused' - In recent years, dozens of studies have found that people who eat lots of UPFs have a higher risk of heart disease, cancer, asthma, depression and other illnesses.

Ultra-processed foods are commonly portrayed as a modern health scourge: a threat lurking on the shelves of every supermarket linked to obesity, heart disease, cancer and early death.

A study showed those eating UPFs gained an average of nearly a kilo, the same as those on the unprocessed diet.

ULTRA-processed foods are commonly portrayed as a modern health scourge: a threat lurking on the shelves of every supermarket linked to obesity, heart disease, cancer and early death.