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Consumption of ultra-processed foods predicts diet quality in Canada

Jean-Claude Moubarac, +5 more
- 01 Jan 2017 - 
- Vol. 108, Iss: 108, pp 512-520
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Lowering the dietary share of ultra-processed foods and raising consumption of hand-made meals from unprocessed or minimally processed foods would substantially improve the diet quality of Canadian.
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This article is published in Appetite.The article was published on 2017-01-01. It has received 423 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Food group.

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The UN Decade of Nutrition, the NOVA food classification and the trouble with ultra-processing.

Carlos Augusto Monteiro, +5 more
- 01 Jan 2018 - 
TL;DR: It is concluded that the ever-increasing production and consumption of ultra-processed products is a world crisis, to be confronted, checked and reversed as part of the work of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and its Decade of Nutrition.
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Ultra-processed foods: what they are and how to identify them

Carlos Augusto Monteiro, +11 more
- 12 Feb 2019 - 
TL;DR: The present commentary responds to the growing interest in ultra-processed foods among policy makers, academic researchers, health professionals, journalists and consumers concerned to devise policies, investigate dietary patterns, advise people, prepare media coverage, and when buying food and checking labels in shops or at home.
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Consumption of ultra-processed foods and cancer risk: results from NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort

Thibault Fiolet, +14 more
- 14 Feb 2018 - 
TL;DR: In this large prospective study, a 10% increase in the proportion of ultra-processed foods in the diet was associated with a significant increase of greater than 10% in risks of overall and breast cancer.
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Ultra-processed food intake and risk of cardiovascular disease: prospective cohort study (NutriNet-Santé)

Bernard Srour, +12 more
- 29 May 2019 - 
TL;DR: Higher consumption of ultra-processed foods was associated with higher risks of cardiovascular, coronary heart, and cerebrovascular diseases, and further studies are needed to understand better the relative contributions.
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The Western Diet–Microbiome-Host Interaction and Its Role in Metabolic Disease

Marit Kolby Zinöcker, +1 more
- 17 Mar 2018 - 
TL;DR: It is argued that the Western diet promotes inflammation that arises from both structural and behavioral changes in the resident microbiome, and by studying how ultra-processing changes the properties of whole foods and how these foods affect the gut microbiome, more useful dietary guidelines can be made.
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Mariachiara Di Cesare, +741 more
- 02 Apr 2016 - 
TL;DR: The posterior probability of meeting the target of halting by 2025 the rise in obesity at its 2010 levels, if post-2000 trends continue, is calculated.
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Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4.4 million participants

Bin Zhou, +497 more
- 09 Apr 2016 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate trends in diabetes prevalence, defined as fasting plasma glucose of 7.0 mmol/L or higher, or history of diagnosis with diabetes, or use of insulin or oral hypoglycaemic drugs in 200 countries and territories in 21 regions, by sex and from 1980 to 2014.
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Profits and pandemics: prevention of harmful effects of tobacco, alcohol, and ultra-processed food and drink industries

Rob Moodie, +7 more
- 23 Feb 2013 - 
TL;DR: This paper assess the eff ectiveness of self-regulation, public-private partnerships, and public regulation models of interaction with unhealthy commodity industries and conclude that unhealthy commodity industry should have no role in the formation of national or international NCD policy.
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Ultra‐processed products are becoming dominant in the global food system

Carlos Augusto Monteiro, +4 more
- 23 Oct 2013 - 
TL;DR: It is proposed here that the main driving force now shaping the global food system is transnational food manufacturing, retailing and fast food service corporations whose businesses are based on very profitable, heavily promoted ultra‐processed products, many in snack form.
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Increasing consumption of ultra-processed foods and likely impact on human health: evidence from Brazil.

Carlos Augusto Monteiro, +4 more
- 20 Dec 2010 - 
TL;DR: The high energy density and the unfavourable nutrition profiling of Group 3 food products, and also their potential harmful effects on eating and drinking behaviours, indicate that governments and health authorities should use all possible methods to halt and reverse the replacement of minimally processed foods and processed culinary ingredients by ultra-processed food products.
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