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Fox 5 watching your health tonight and another reason to think before you reach for those tasty
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ultra processed foods. New research revealing all those snacks, ready to eat meals and sugary
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drinks could add to your risk of dying early. Fox 8's Duarte Giordino has everything you need to
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know. Karen has been avoiding processed foods for years. She's been shopping at the Park Slope
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Food Co-op ever since her now grown kids were little. Having a 25 and 27 year old kids, my kids
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are really good eaters, and they cook on their own, and they cook really healthy, and that
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makes me really happy. Her choice seems even smarter now. New research published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine finds a strong link
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between ultra-processed foods and early death. Researchers say that in 2018, eating ultra-processed foods contributed to about 124,000 premature
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deaths in the U.S. It pretty sad but the power lies within us Lisa Cohen who a registered dietitian says this new study lines up a lot with what experts have been warning for years that heavily processed foods wear down the human body
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The younger people are having higher incidence of diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity
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hypertension, the chronic conditions that lead to early death. Brazilian researchers looked at data
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from nearly 240,000 people across eight countries. They found that for every 10% more calories people get from ultra-processed foods
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their risk of dying early jumps by almost 3%. The highest death rates linked to ultra-processed foods were in the U.K. and the U.S
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The more ultra-processed foods people eat, the higher the risk. Here's how the numbers break down across different countries
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The cost of fresh food is higher because it becomes garbage. if it's not eaten on time
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But still, Cohen says sticking to fresh, less processed options is almost always the better choice
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In Park Slope, Duarte Geraldino, Fox 5 News
