Ultra-processed foods might go easy on a person’s taste buds and wallet, but a new study now suggests they are linked to dementia and cognitive decline.
The study, titled “Association Between Consumption of Ultraprocessed Foods and Cognitive Decline,” was published Monday in JAMA Neurology and reported that people who consume ultra-processed foods as 20% of their daily calories could be at a greater risk for cognitive decline.
Pizza, hot dogs, cookies, cakes, doughnuts, candy, and ice cream are all examples of ultra-processed foods, which are defined as “industrial formulations of food substances [oils, fats, sugars, starch, and protein isolates] that contain little or no whole foods and typically include flavorings, colorings, emulsifiers, and other cosmetic additives,” per the study.
If a person consumes 2,000 calories a day, 20% is 400 calories, and a McDonald’s Big Mac comes in at at least 560 calories.
“In a cohort study of 10 ,775 individuals, higher consumption of [ultra-processed] foods was associated with a higher rate of global and executive function decline after a median follow-up of 8 years,” the study reported.
The individuals, ages 35 to 74, were followed for a decade and questioned multiple times in order to gauge any changes to their mental state while reporting their dietary habits.
Tests included those evaluating word recall, verbal fluency, and word recognition.
“These findings suggest that limiting consumption of [ultra-processed] food could be associated with reduced cognitive decline in middle-aged and older adults,” the study read.
“A higher percentage of daily energy consumption of [ultra-processed] foods was associated with cognitive decline among adults from an ethnically diverse sample. These findings support current public health recommendations on limiting [ultra-processed] food consumption because of their potential harm to cognitive function.”
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I don’t get it.
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From the man who says he doesn’t like puns. lol.
I came to the conclusion that most of the food we eat is basically garbage.
Yeah, it’s belly filler, not nutrition.
If It wasn’t around 150 years ago, don’t eat it.
Avoid seed oils at all costs. Especially restaurant oil.
It’s cheap so even expensive places use it.
My grandmother never ate any of these foods she ate chicken ,potatoes and bananas . The result was her heart was healthy and strong yet she spent the last 10 years of her life from 76 to 86 declining mentally. Was it from a lack of cholesterol intake ? Was it genetic? Who knows my father came out of my surgery at 73 with what they called post operative dementia lol . Did he have a stroke under anesthesia we don’t know he died 3 months later. All these studies should have the caveat but you are going to die anyway.
Meanwhile Kissinger at 99 is traveling to Davos and advising Ukraine to negotiate. And Soros is scheming away like a fiend at 92. Maybe there’s something to that skipping pork stuff. They don’t seem like real work out guys.
It’s adrenochrome. Does a body good. /s.
Drinking the blood of goyim children ,also those Jews hold tight to their assets lol.
And all this time I thought it was the gefilte fish.
You can attribute their longevity to a steady diet of aborted fetuses.
My mom will be 93 y.o. soon. Her genetic heritage is unknown; she was adopted.
Most all of the men relatives on dad’s side died before the age of 65. (back as far as the 1850’s that I could find). My dad had little “quality of life” for ~5yrs. until he passed. But then, he was a true believer in modern medicine. Prostate CA> bone CA> Hospice visits at home> death. Nothing good about that.
I stayed in the house with mom for about a week, it was obvious that the time was close…then one night at about 3:00 am I snapped awake, and I knew, I don’t know how, I just knew he was gone. Walked in to see dad, placed my hand on his arm and I was amazed at how fast the body heat was falling.
I guess that makes me, age-wise….running on empty? lol
“Like sands through the hourglass…”
Had a call on a dishwasher repair the other day. The lady said it would not start.
She was 95 years old.
I checked it, and it started right up. Nothing wrong. She just forgot how to turn it on.
she suggested that maybe it was so old it was wearing out, and now she needed to push the button twice.
MmmmKay…be sure to push the button twice, now.
And make the check out to…
I hope I’ll be able to get along if I make it to that age. There ain’t nobody coming to care for me.
Just becase it builds a turd (IF YOU’RE LUCKY) does not imply that it is healthy!
L.
That’s how you know it’s working…and just wait ’til you get a taste of the super satisfying solvent green. It’s got what the body craves.
How much do you want to bet some Jew came up with this.
Easy, because there were and continue to be people like NYT’s Walter Duranty. The followers of satan who have no use for truth but are adherents of destruction and Godlessness.
Every single time — it’s right there in the poster, just below where it says “Chuck Connors”
She looks like a lizard person.
My favorite movie from the 70s was “The reincarnation of Peter Proud”.
Read the book at 10 after seeing the movie.
Eat what ever you want. Foods that come in bags or boxes are almost always shit. It’s why we have so many fat asses waddling around breaking into a sweat to get from the couch to the car to the local Mcdognuts.
And the sedentary modern lifestyle. And fat “acceptance” – which is nothing more than disease acceptance. How is THAT “empowerment”, girls? We should be “fat-phobic” – it’s the number one cause of preventable early death and constant ill health.
And beyond some pleasing plumpness on an otherwise strong, curvy (not one curve like a sphere) girl, it’s gross. We’re not wrong – you are. It’s a fine line between pleasingly plump and revoltingly rotund.
I blame the experts for this too. They suggest your diet should be made up of seven types of carbohydrates a day. This chart is exactly backwards barring the sweets, sweets belong in the carb layer. They’ve been selling this shit for close to a century. Trust the experts.
My favorite quote about that same food pyramid is…”If you live by the food pyramid, you’ll die by the food pyramid – and along the way, you’ll even LOOK like the food pyramid!”
Burger King is OK, though, right?
If you don’t have to get out of your car to get it, then do not eat it.
Some years ago, a prof from Auburn(?) bought Big Macs, Taco Bell crap, Booger King, et al and analyzed the “meat”. What his team found was amazing.
Most “meat” was filler – paper, cellulose, grains, etc. Seem to remember that average was 50/50 meat/filler, w/ Taco Bull being the worst at 37-38% meat.
lol, “Booger King”.
Try these: “Big Crap”, “Taco Hell” (so shitty even the Messicans won’t touch it), “I-HOPe ( I don’t crap my pants), “Windy’s”…
Yep. Never seen a Mexican at a Taco Bell. They know better.
And Chinese don’t really eat what most of their restaurants serve to most of their customers. MSG is terrible, too, and red food coloring, etc. Unfermented soy is poison.
According to neurologist Dr. Russell Blaylock, MSG is an excito-toxin that burns out brain cells. It’s hidden in processed foods by calling it yeast extract, (unspecified) spices, natural flavoring, etc. I can’t remember right now, but there’s at least a couple dozen names that they use to hide MSG.
Modified food starch is another cloak for MSG.
Excitotoxins are awful for children’s brain development:
https://www.google.com/search?q=excitotoxins+child+brain&ei=11mSY5dYjqXk2g_N0JiwBA&ved=0ahUKEwjXn-Sa_ur7AhWOElkFHU0oBkYQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=excitotoxins+child+brain&gs_lcp=Cgxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAQAzIECAAQRzIECAAQRzIECAAQRzIECAAQRzIECAAQRzIECAAQRzoKCAAQRxDWBBCwA0oECEEYAEoFCEASATFKBAhGGABQrgZYrgZgrwloAXACeACAAQCIAQCSAQCYAQCgAQHIAQbAAQE&sclient=gws-wiz-serp
Food ingredients should be visible foods, not words.
Excitoxins’ possible long-term side effects:
destruction of neurons.
obesity.
thyroid conditions.
infertility.
brain damage.
degenerative brain diseases.
Aspartame is pure poison, too:
https://www.google.com/search?q=excitotoxins+side+effects&ei=21mSY_XLCO6w5NoPjMufcA&ved=0ahUKEwi1peCc_ur7AhVuGFkFHYzlBw4Q4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=excitotoxins+side+effects&gs_lcp=Cgxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAQAzIFCCEQoAE6CggAEEcQ1gQQsAM6BQghEKsCOgYIABAWEB46CAgAEBYQHhAPOgUIABCGAzoFCAAQkQI6BQguEIAEOgUIABCABEoECEEYAEoECEYYAFCBFFjvP2DvQmgCcAF4AIABgwGIAZAOkgEEMjAuM5gBAKABAcgBBsABAQ&sclient=gws-wiz-serp
They’re in all prepared “foods” like convenience store garbage such as meat sticks and everything else they shouldn’t be allowed to call food. American slop is banned for import into many Euro countries.
I don’t doubt it, but damn…MSG is some tasty shit.
It would not surprise me to find Satan on the board of directors of Yum Brands.
Taco Hell was required to bring it up to at least 40% meat or else they would no longer be allowed to call it ground beef.
If you, for whatever reason, are buying packaged/canned “food” then buying items with the shortest ingredient list should be a good start. Then chop-smash the “food”. Proceed to boil the stuff and drain off the water, multiple times if you want. This process should remove most of the added ingredients. Add, if you have any on hand, flavorings to make your now ultra-ultra processed meal taste palatable.
I eat grass finished beef, my chickens, venison, eggs and occasionally some fermented veggies from our garden. In my 70s, workout daily, enjoy quality time with my gal several times a week, run with my dogs and am active in my life long affair with glass art. Among numerous other things.
The only eating out I’ve done in the last 30 years was The Sushi Den in Denver and I left CO in 2014. Yeah I’ve got a ton of canned foods for the coming nightmare but in the meantime, that shit stays on the shelves.
You have to have an early death wish to eat seed oils, soda and boxed garbage. Your choice.
Cheap “food” is a false economy. You pay a little extra for real food now or pay a lot extra on chronic illness later.
Same with “cheap” other products. The poor truly cannot afford to waste money on junk.
I just bought two tins of spam from Food for less .I know it’ll kill me but at this point who cares.
I actually picked up a can of Spam Lite today. For my health.
ha ha – Spam Lite!
You are only supposed to eat food that will rot….and do so before it does.
I’ve seen a 14 year old Big Mac, still looks the same as when it was purchased. A nutritionist doing a seminar had a ten year old Twinkie on his table. So health nuts bought McDonald’s food to save to prove that it’s real, and it turns out that it’s true.
What is so hard to grasp? Our depleted national soils due to mono culture farming, glyphosates, defoliants, gmo’s, etc. The Fatal Drug Admin approving any kind of poisonous shit as long as the ‘creator’ has the right kind of hand shake (and bribe).
Been a food snob since the 80s, former spouse could not cook, I had to learn to survive! Quickly learned that MSG did not agree with me (explosive shits, horrible gas pains, massive headaches, etc.). I was young and poor but I figured out how to eat AND cook well .
A few simple rules of thumb;
NO white, sugar, flour, or even potatoes!
NO veg oils, canola or seed oils!Olive, coconut, butter or lard (if you can find it NON hydrogenated!
NO HFCS, EVER!
If it comes in a box, bag or can, avoid if possible! If you must (out of laziness or need) READ the ingredients, if you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it, EVER!
We are being poisoned by our benevolent owners, if you allow it.
Hell, I don’t even care to eat in restaurants, if you do, I’d recommend peeking in the kitchen, paying close attention to the nationality and personal hygiene of the ‘person’ handling your ‘food’. Is the ‘chef’ of a race that REFUSES to flush their ass wipe?
Bon appetite, enjoy your choices!
Peace, L.
Fit old athlete, Dr. Ron Paul, advises, “Avoid white foods.”
Eat right work out die anyway.
Like you I have a Ketonic diet and not for weight. For me it’s for physical well being. If I veer off and eat a bunch of carbs I feel shitty and quickly change course. It’s a rare occasion I eat in a restaurant. I travel a lot in my work. I hit the grocery store and buy the foods I eat, and bring them to my room. I avoid going to fast food joints at all costs. I don’t do it to live longer, I do it to live better. Not to mention my wife digs it.
Chemical Farming & the Loss of Human Health:
It’s not just people food. I looked at the label on my cat’s wet food and besides all the chemicals was a listing of “3.5% ash”. What nutrients are in ash???? For a little carnivore? Kitty is smarter than me and refuses to eat it. I’m now cooking him fresh meat.