This Diet Buzzword Is Misleading

这个饮食流行语具有误导性

The Opinions

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2025-01-02

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President-elect Trump’s pick for secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has been critical of ultraprocessed foods. But how bad are they? In this episode, Nicola Guess, a dietitian and researcher at the University of Oxford, explains why we shouldn’t be scared of the label “ultraprocessed.”
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  • My name is Nicola Guess.

  • I am a registered dietitian and today we're going to be talking about ultra processed food ready meals, chocolate, biscuits, sausages, fizzy drinks, chicken nuggets, burgers and hot dogs.

  • Well, we know they may be delicious, but new research finds eating them too often could be taking years off your life.

  • Scientists now say these foods should be regulated with tobacco style warnings and advertising bans.

  • It's been an issue that's been bubbling for a number of years and I think really has come to the fore, particularly in the US and this is the time of year when people are thinking, how am I going to get healthy for the new year?

  • Like what am I going to do?

  • Should I be eating this or that?

  • And I think ultra processed food has now become the dominant question in nutrition.

  • And that really concerns me because I feel like five years ago we would be thinking, is this food healthy or not?

  • That's not what's happening now.

  • Patients are now asking, is this an ultra processed food?

  • And I'm going to be making the case that I don't yet think it is a useful way of describing whether a food is healthy or not.