ultra processed foods

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Ultra Processed Foods

Ultra processed foods are food products that are made mostly or entirely from sugar, oils and fats, and other substances not commonly used in cooking, such as artificial flavors, colors, emulsifiers. They usually contain few whole foods. Examples include instant noodles, packaged snacks, soda and sugary cereals.

Category
Food
Molecular Formula
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Mechanism of Action
Ultra processed foods often contain high amounts of sugars, unhealthy fats, and sodium, which can contribute to various health issues when consumed in excess.
Evidence Grade
A

Other Names

  • Processed foods
  • Highly processed foods
  • Industrial foods

Primary Benefits

  • Convenient
  • Long shelf life

Recommended Dosage

Minimum As little as possible
Maximum N/A

Side Effects

  • Weight gain
  • Increased risk of chronic diseases
  • Poor nutrition

Precautions

  • People with diabetes
  • People with high blood pressure
  • People with heart disease

Interactions

  • N/A

Key References

  • 'Ultra-processed foods and added sugars in the US diet: evidence from a nationally representative cross-sectional study', BMJ Open, 2016
  • 'Ultra-Processed Food Intake and Obesity: What Really Matters for Health—Processing or Nutrient Content?', Current Obesity Reports, 2018
Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver
Exploring Peptides, Hormones, and Therapies for Health and Wellness 12:27 0
“Lifestyle factors like exercise and caloric restriction, eating mostly non-processed Foods Etc as a quote unquote better alternative.”

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Peptide & Hormone Therapies for Health, Performance & Longevity | Dr. Craig Koniver
Exploring Peptides, Hormones, and Therapies for Health and Wellness 38:50 0
“even though I strive to eat most of my foods from Whole Foods and minimally processed foods it's very difficult for me to get enough fruits vegetables vitamins and minerals micronutrients and adaptogens from food alone”

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Rhonda Patrick at Orthomolecular Medicine Congress in Bussum, Netherlands (Keynote Oct. 3rd, 2015)
Optimizing Health Through Micronutrients: Key Role in Disease Prevention 8:52 0
“the obesogenic diet as I like to call it consists of a diet that is heavily processed foods, foods that are in packages that are in boxes very little micronutrients very little vitamins and minerals and a lot of refined sugars.”

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How to Control Hunger, Eating & Satiety | Huberman Lab Essentials
Understanding Hormonal Influence on Hunger, Satiety, and Metabolic Health 12:05 0
“there's one particular aspect of food that can powerfully impact cck and I think most people I'm guessing 99.9% of people out there are not aware of this and it has to do with highly processed foods”

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How to Control Hunger, Eating & Satiety | Huberman Lab Essentials
Understanding Hormonal Influence on Hunger, Satiety, and Metabolic Health 14:45 0
“emulsifiers from highly processed foods are limiting your gut's ability to detect what's in the foods you eat and therefore to deploy the satiety signals”

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How to Control Hunger, Eating & Satiety | Huberman Lab Essentials
Understanding Hormonal Influence on Hunger, Satiety, and Metabolic Health 15:59 0
“highly processed foods are just bad for you they increase weight gain they disrupt the lining of your gut in a way that disrupts things like cck and proper satiety signals”

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Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful | TUH #171
Understanding Dietary Misconceptions, Health Implications, and Consumer Empowerment 11:07 0
“60% of Americans diets are coming from ultraprocessed foods, 60% that's more than half of our diet.”

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Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful | TUH #171
Understanding Dietary Misconceptions, Health Implications, and Consumer Empowerment 11:50 0
“The difference between ultraprocessed and just something simply processing that we've been doing since the dawn of time is with ultraprocessed foods you're adding a ton of additives and preservatives and fillers in there and that food no longer resembles what that natural state of food once was.”

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3 NEW Science-Backed Blue Zone Strategies To Increase Your Lifespan & Happiness: Dan Buettner
Enhance Your Longevity and Happiness with Blue Zone Lifestyle Choices 47:01 0
“standard American diet Matrix of chips and sodas and Ultra processed foods and fast food which is longevity Killers”

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3 NEW Science-Backed Blue Zone Strategies To Increase Your Lifespan & Happiness: Dan Buettner
Enhance Your Longevity and Happiness with Blue Zone Lifestyle Choices 58:17 0
“the vast majority of food messages we get $15 billion dollar or so a year are by the processed food industry reminding us to eat these processed food many of which carry a health label”

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3 NEW Science-Backed Blue Zone Strategies To Increase Your Lifespan & Happiness: Dan Buettner
Enhance Your Longevity and Happiness with Blue Zone Lifestyle Choices 1:02:38 0
“I've cut meat out of my diet. I don't eat it, I don't eat dead animal. I'll eat some fish once in a while, and I'm very conscious about eating processed food. I eat very little processed food.”

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Eric Topol Returns (on longevity) | Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Influence of Diet, Substances, Genetics, and Toxins on Health 39:09 0
“when we talk about diet let's talk about ultrarocessed food and sweeteners a little bit the ultrarocessed foods are really and in my view the the evidence is is remarkable that they're toxic they're basically uh the age related diseases the big three they're potentiating all of them and uh the US is the worst in the world for intake of ultrarocessed foods.”

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Eric Topol Returns (on longevity) | Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Influence of Diet, Substances, Genetics, and Toxins on Health 42:02 0
“the big theme in this is inflammation so ultrarocessed foods once it gets through your GI tract you absorb it it incites inflammation throughout your body and even the gut to brain which is like the how the glip one drugs like Oympic works it also activates the circuits and the the brain is the master circuit for the immune system so basically you've got activation of immune system inflammation it's that's not good and the ultrarocessed foods are doing that.”

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The Root Cause of Metabolic Dysfunction w/ Dr. Casey Means
Understanding Metabolic Health: Risks, Dysfunction, and Dietary Recommendations 0:12 0
“the biggest mistake we're making is we're eating Ultra processed food”

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The Root Cause of Metabolic Dysfunction w/ Dr. Casey Means
Understanding Metabolic Health: Risks, Dysfunction, and Dietary Recommendations 37:04 0
“Ultra processed foods are a science experiment invented by food chemists and food scientists uh pretty much just starting after World War II started really accelerating in use in the 1970s and just simply put they are a science experiment that has failed it's not working they're not conducive to Cellular bi human cellular biology and they're very bad for the planet as well.”

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The Root Cause of Metabolic Dysfunction w/ Dr. Casey Means
Understanding Metabolic Health: Risks, Dysfunction, and Dietary Recommendations 38:04 0
“Ultra processed foods have significantly less micronutrients than real food so during the processing where you take a whole food and you modulate it so so much to turn it into these individual components that then get put back together like a Frankenstein to make this thing that looks like food if you really squint or from 100 feet might look like food but actually is really just chemicals put together and shaped and colored and things like that.”

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The Root Cause of Metabolic Dysfunction w/ Dr. Casey Means
Understanding Metabolic Health: Risks, Dysfunction, and Dietary Recommendations 42:21 0
“67% of calories come from Ultra processed foods.”

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The Root Cause of Metabolic Dysfunction w/ Dr. Casey Means
Understanding Metabolic Health: Risks, Dysfunction, and Dietary Recommendations 44:28 0
“Ultra processed foods drive us to eat more calories.”

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The Root Cause of Metabolic Dysfunction w/ Dr. Casey Means
Understanding Metabolic Health: Risks, Dysfunction, and Dietary Recommendations 45:56 0
“the ultr processed food is literally designed to make us eat more calories and be insatiable on top of the fact so you get people eating more food the food is not then supporting on the cellular level the actual processing of that food because it's micronutrient poor and it's very destructive to our cellular biology with all the food additives.”

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The Root Cause of Metabolic Dysfunction w/ Dr. Casey Means
Understanding Metabolic Health: Risks, Dysfunction, and Dietary Recommendations 46:51 0
“Ultra processed foods like fro Loops they are different recipes than we're using overseas because overseas they have stricter Health standards for what you can feed to Children you can't feed them artificial many of the artificial food dies like red 40 so they use vegetable extracts and they use like they literally use turmeric powder in some countries to to to color fro loops and here we're using petroleum based synthetic dyes that we know are linked to um ADHD and other uh issues with neurologic development.”

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The Root Cause of Metabolic Dysfunction w/ Dr. Casey Means
Understanding Metabolic Health: Risks, Dysfunction, and Dietary Recommendations 1:22:41 0
“I think for the average American body is like we have to get off all the ultr processed foods so that we're not overwhelming our cellular Machinery every single day with toxins and these just super nutrient-dense Foods so that our because our cells know how to clear themselves out they know how to turn over and get to functionality but we just have to Full Stop on the like the toxic crap coming in.”

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The Root Cause of Metabolic Dysfunction w/ Dr. Casey Means
Understanding Metabolic Health: Risks, Dysfunction, and Dietary Recommendations 1:24:44 0
“real food as local as possible if you do those two things and just commit to cut out all the ultra processed food your life will transform”

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Why Paul Saladino, MD Quit A 100% Carnivore Diet, Impacts of Cholesterol, And the Value of Insulin
Rethinking Nutrition: Meat, Deception, Health Shifts, and Dietary Innovations 54:08 0
“The smallest amount of ultra processed foods you can eat right less things that have had all the information that we would have always associated with them historically evolutionarily stripped away less chips less seed oils less of that stuff and just eat whole plant foods and whole animal foods.”

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The Shady Reality of the $Billion Supplement Industry | The Dr. Hyman Show
Understanding Supplement Quality, Nutrition Myths, and Modern Health Realities 33:55 0
“People eating more and more processed food and so not getting nutrients and eating more and more.”

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Longevity Doctor: I’m 79 With the Health of a 40 Year Old, Here’s How I Did It!
Maximizing Health Potential Through Genetics, Nutrition, and Lifestyle Choices 14:14 0
“It's removing a lot of the foods that are driving inflammation, ultraprocessed foods, sugar, gluten, dairy for some people.”

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This Food Reversed My Immune Age by 47% in 90 Days
Enhancing Health Through Lifestyle, Diet, and Environmental Choices 10:36 0
“you just unpacked why we have so much chronic disease it's our crappy diet which is full of processed foods limited amounts of variety of foods lack of protective nutrients lack of nutrients and vitamins minerals an overload of environmental toxins and chemicals from petrochemical toxins from u heavy metal toxins from all the things we're exposed to the stress we have the sleep disruption this lack of sort of regulation of our circadian rhythm the lack of connection socially and so many things that are impacting us”

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How To REVERSE YOUR AGE In 40 Days With WATER FASTING | Dr. Alan Goldhamer
Optimize health and reverse aging with fasting and nutrition tips 9:44 0
“we recommend that that in that eight hour feeding window that the you know whole natural food diet that you eat excludes all the chemicals and the processed foods and the other stuff”

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The Hidden Benefits of Fasting | Masterclass
Understanding the Impact of Fasting on Health and Nutrition Benefits 2:18 0
“keep eating the same way keep living the same lifestyle keep lacking sleep being stressed eat all the processed foods and you'll be on these drugs for the rest”

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The Hidden Benefits of Fasting | Masterclass
Understanding the Impact of Fasting on Health and Nutrition Benefits 17:53 0
“if you sit around in the couch and eat greasy fatty slimy dead decaying flesh and highly processed foods and put on a lot of fat particularly visceral fat gain that same 20 pounds that might be a problem”

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The Hidden Benefits of Fasting | Masterclass
Understanding the Impact of Fasting on Health and Nutrition Benefits 1:14:05 0
“it's really talking to people about anti-inflammatory nutrition unfortunately most of the foods that proliferate in the processed food industry are highly inflammatory and I'm talking about like gluten and dairy I always get you know the side eye from people like no not dairy sometimes in certain instances sometimes grains process sugars alcohol alcohol is a big one”

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The Hidden Benefits of Fasting | Masterclass
Understanding the Impact of Fasting on Health and Nutrition Benefits 1:28:10 0
“the worst foods to eat after you fast oh um I I would say you know just sitting down and eating a bunch of processed carbs like don't sit down and have a bowl of ice cream you know you're going to spike your blood sugar all right spike your insulin I would say the processed carbs um you know if you sat down and had some rice and had some chicken I mean that would be fine but I would say you know most of the processed foods because your appetite and satiety cues are not going to be clicked in”

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Heart Surgeon Exposes Why Doctors Are Wrong About Cholesterol (with Dr. Ovadia)
Understanding Nutrition, Metabolic Health, and Disease Prevention Through Podcasts 1:13:20 0
“if you're cutting out the vegetable and seed oils and the processed food, you're lowering your linoleic acid level a significant amount.”

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Heart Surgeon Exposes Why Doctors Are Wrong About Cholesterol (with Dr. Ovadia)
Understanding Nutrition, Metabolic Health, and Disease Prevention Through Podcasts 1:18:29 0
“get rid of the processed food. I think first and foremost that's the thing that you need to do to improve health if you're on the sort of standard western diet.”

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“It Only Takes 12 Hours!” – Burn Stubborn Fat, Starve Disease & Stay Young | Dr. Jason Fung
Understanding the Nuances of Diet, Nutrition, and Metabolic Health 18:12 0
“in the 70s people said you know you should eat ultra ultra ultra low fat and in order to do that the government the united states government encouraged people to eat processed food because you could process the fat out of it and put other things mostly carbs because fat and protein tend to go together and so instead of eating say a typical breakfast of eggs and bacon which would keep you full until lunch they'd eat two slices of white bread and jam and some sugary cereal”

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“It Only Takes 12 Hours!” – Burn Stubborn Fat, Starve Disease & Stay Young | Dr. Jason Fung
Understanding the Nuances of Diet, Nutrition, and Metabolic Health 56:11 0
“the problem is not generally the carbohydrates but the processing that makes the biggest difference so if you look at the glycemic index which is um you know which looks at carbohydrate containing foods sees how much insulin tends to go up and glucose tends to go up they tend to go up together of certain foods what you see is that unprocessed carbohydrates tend to cause a lot lower spike in insulin than than processed foods.”

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You’re Eating Too Much Sugar! – You May Never Eat It Again After Watching This | Dr. Robert Lustig
Impacts of Sugar Consumption on Health and Chronic Diseases Prevention 3:48 0
“ultra processed foods are now 56 of the UK diet”

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You’re Eating Too Much Sugar! – You May Never Eat It Again After Watching This | Dr. Robert Lustig
Impacts of Sugar Consumption on Health and Chronic Diseases Prevention 8:14 0
“the majority of what we're buying to feed ourselves and our families is ultra-processed food whether it's here in the UK or with you in America and that is contributing to this tsunami of chronic ill health that we're seeing.”

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You’re Eating Too Much Sugar! – You May Never Eat It Again After Watching This | Dr. Robert Lustig
Impacts of Sugar Consumption on Health and Chronic Diseases Prevention 47:51 0
“it's actually the modern food environments this highly ultra processed food that we are consuming in inordinate quantities is actually at the root cause and unless we deal with that as a root cause we're going to be struggling people are going to be suffering healthcare systems are going to be suffering and we're not going to get anywhere”

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You’re Eating Too Much Sugar! – You May Never Eat It Again After Watching This | Dr. Robert Lustig
Impacts of Sugar Consumption on Health and Chronic Diseases Prevention 52:44 0
“your insulin is high because of processed food”

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You’re Eating Too Much Sugar! – You May Never Eat It Again After Watching This | Dr. Robert Lustig
Impacts of Sugar Consumption on Health and Chronic Diseases Prevention 53:06 0
“short chain fatty acids come from fiber consumption and of course ultra-processed food is devoid of fiber”

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You’re Eating Too Much Sugar! – You May Never Eat It Again After Watching This | Dr. Robert Lustig
Impacts of Sugar Consumption on Health and Chronic Diseases Prevention 54:43 0
“now i think when we're talking about foods i think we need to get clear on terminology for people who are listening and they think okay look i get this highly processed food is at the root cause of many of these chronic diseases”

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Let Food Be Thy Medicine: EAT THIS To Heal The Body & STARVE CANCER! | Dr. William Li
Food as medicine to prevent disease and promote health naturally 1:39:16 0
“increasingly we're wondering if some of these chemical additives in ultra-processed foods are actually triggering um uh immune responses that are unintended these are unintended consequences”

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Let Food Be Thy Medicine: EAT THIS To Heal The Body & STARVE CANCER! | Dr. William Li
Food as medicine to prevent disease and promote health naturally 1:56:23 0
“ultra processed foods foods that come in a box foods that got lots of ingredients and lots of preservative and chemicals inside them things that um that they say that your grandmother if you showed her might not recognize his food or great-grandmother and perhaps ultra-processed foods as a group tend to be associated when we look at populations with poorer of health outcomes from diabetes obesity cardiovascular disease and even cancer.”

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These Daily Habits Are Destroying Your Brain, Body & Life! (But You Can Reverse Them)
The Impact of Routine Practices on Brain, Body, and Lifestyle 20:06 0
“when you open people's cupboards, you open their drawers and you see what's in there. You see the naughty drawers and you see the stuff that's in there. And then you also not only look at what's in there, which is basically all the highly processed food. It's all the sugary treats that live inside the house, right?”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 20:17 0
“approximately 60% of the average American adults diet is now made of ultra-processed Foods”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 1:20:36 0
“the current world that people find themselves in if they want to eat foods that do not cause them to be obese if they want to not eat Beyond satiety they are finding it harder to do now than ever before because of how Ultra processed foods are hyperpalatable, they're more calorie dense, they're quicker and easier to put into your mouth and get into your stomach, they're more readily available, you're able to graze throughout the day”

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Simple Fixes For A Good Night’s Rest – Shawn Stevenson (4K)
Improving sleep quality through lifestyle choices and health awareness tips 1:21:21 0
“we have this new category huge list of obesogens so these are OB obes obesity causing agents that are firmed in particular they're riddled with obesogens in Ultra processed foods”

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Debunking The Internet’s Biggest Health Myths – Dr Karan Rajan
Holistic Insights on Gut Health, Nutrition, Sleep, and Well-being 6:26 0
“the microbiome is influenced by the diets we in so certainly we are having increased number of ultrapress foods which can influence the microbiome negatively”

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Breaking Bad Habits & Living Your Best Life – Dr Andrew Huberman (4K)
Optimizing Health and Functionality Through Sleep and Rhythm Management 1:29:17 0
“you eat mostly unprocessed and minimally processed foods”

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How America’s Healthcare System Keeps You Dependent – Calley Means
Health, Environment, Lifestyle: Preventing Disease Through Nutrition and Exercise. 32:50 0
“if you fire every single nutrition researcher in the country uh literally and replace it no I'm not joking if you if you fire and cut all funding whatsoever for nutrition research and have a principle that we should lower our percentage of ultra processed food consumption from 70% to 20% it would radically just unleash human capital in this country and unleash Health.”

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How America’s Healthcare System Keeps You Dependent – Calley Means
Health, Environment, Lifestyle: Preventing Disease Through Nutrition and Exercise. 36:00 0
“Ultra processed food is addiction instruments created by the cigarette industry we all have to just understand that.”

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How America’s Healthcare System Keeps You Dependent – Calley Means
Health, Environment, Lifestyle: Preventing Disease Through Nutrition and Exercise. 38:50 0
“the food pyramid was the deadliest document I believe in American history the thing in 1992 that said that we should have carbs and basically process proc food and sugar at the base of the pyramid and that meat was kind of this Niche thing and fruits and vegetables were up here was it was carbs and processed food”

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How America’s Healthcare System Keeps You Dependent – Calley Means
Health, Environment, Lifestyle: Preventing Disease Through Nutrition and Exercise. 45:17 0
“Ultra processed food there's no evidence that's bad for kids and a child's diet can be 93% ultra processed food and perfectly healthy”

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How America’s Healthcare System Keeps You Dependent – Calley Means
Health, Environment, Lifestyle: Preventing Disease Through Nutrition and Exercise. 48:01 0
“ultra-processed food deliberately from tobacco scientists is meant to hack our brains to be ultra palatable to not produce satiety”

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How America’s Healthcare System Keeps You Dependent – Calley Means
Health, Environment, Lifestyle: Preventing Disease Through Nutrition and Exercise. 1:52:31 0
“there's got to be a deep important conversation with the agriculture Community about how we unwind these broken incentives that are leading to ultra processed food and get to a more regenerative future.”

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Exposing The Food Industry’s Dangerous Lies – Vani Hari
Dangers of Artificial Food Additives and Health-Conscious Dietary Choices 12:35 0
“Processed foods are manufactured in a way for you to consume them very fast... they melt in your mouth right you just digest them so quick and so your body doesn't even have the time to catch up with its own satiety for you to stop and you end up eating half the bag.”

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Exposing The Food Industry’s Dangerous Lies – Vani Hari
Dangers of Artificial Food Additives and Health-Conscious Dietary Choices 19:53 0
“in a lot of processed foods you'll see this ingredient and nobody knows why it's there unless they were to actually go look it up and teach themselves it's monod diglycerides.”

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Exposing The Food Industry’s Dangerous Lies – Vani Hari
Dangers of Artificial Food Additives and Health-Conscious Dietary Choices 34:57 0
“I found out the truth about the food and industry and removed the processed foods from my diet and went to real food and now realize a level of Health that I never thought was possible.”

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Exposing The Food Industry’s Dangerous Lies – Vani Hari
Dangers of Artificial Food Additives and Health-Conscious Dietary Choices 54:30 0
“the only thing they found researchers have found that actually work full-time and long term is removing processed foods altogether right if you eat real food and let's say less than 10% of it's processed that is the diet that literally withstands all of the other diet literature out there far as far as what actually works long term and keeps you off of that yo-yo dieting strain”

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The Truth About Microplastics – Dr Rhonda Patrick
Understanding Microplastics and Toxin Exposure in Everyday Health and Environment 0:00 0
“I think most recently I've had a real interest in Ultra processed foods in plastic microplastics their Associated chemicals what they're doing to human health that's that's been my latest Obsession.”

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The Truth About Microplastics – Dr Rhonda Patrick
Understanding Microplastics and Toxin Exposure in Everyday Health and Environment 1:18:21 0
“the old Ultra processing ultr processed foods or UPF as there sometimes you'll see them called upfsi um the purpose of these Foods is convenience it's taste improving taste improving texture imp you know flavor improving appearance colors shelf life shelf life exactly um so so so what ends up happening these YP of foods end up having a lot of calories they're a lot of added sugar they have a lot of chemicals that may make it taste really good texture really good they'll have additives um that will extend the shelf life and they'll have a lot of colors so you can find them in candies cereals um you know a lot of junk food cookies chips crackers already flavored yogurts protein bars”

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The Truth About Microplastics – Dr Rhonda Patrick
Understanding Microplastics and Toxin Exposure in Everyday Health and Environment 1:24:31 0
“there are ways around it right like beetroot um spinach turmeric like these can color things and and you can find a lot of healthier quote unquote healthier they're still processed foods when you talk about that get more into that in a minute but you know there are at least you're not having chemicals that are known carcinogens that are known to disrupt cognitive function to be you know to disaster Bay and play a role in impulsive control um impulse control and impulsivity and like not being able to focus and pay attention right”

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The Truth About Microplastics – Dr Rhonda Patrick
Understanding Microplastics and Toxin Exposure in Everyday Health and Environment 1:31:24 0
“there's a lot of chemicals in foods and you know there's it's 10,000 chemicals so you can figure out how many of those may be detrimental to health I would say one of the biggest problem with ultra processed foods is the added sugar and when we say added sugar we mean not sugar like if you if you're eating an apple right it's got like natural sugar in in that that's bound to a fiber Matrix we're talking about adding table sugar like sucrose glucose and fructose 50% mixture of each into it”

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The Truth About Microplastics – Dr Rhonda Patrick
Understanding Microplastics and Toxin Exposure in Everyday Health and Environment 1:32:19 0
“there was actually a really good study that was published a couple years ago out of the NIH from Kevin Hall's lab and he took the same group of people and gave them either an ultr processed foods diet or a Whole Foods diet and these diet he gave the same same group the same diet so like the same people had each diet with a wash out period and then they measured a bunch of things right so you're not looking at a lot of individual variability here right it's called a crossover trial design”

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The Truth About Microplastics – Dr Rhonda Patrick
Understanding Microplastics and Toxin Exposure in Everyday Health and Environment 1:37:17 0
“ultra processed foods hyper palatable calorie dense easier to eat more and per bite tends to be more calorific so it's easier to gain weight.”

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Longevity Supplements, Predatory Experts & Continuous Glucose Monitors | Dr. Eric Topol
Exploring Aging, Genetics, Disease Prevention, Nutrition, and Lifestyle Factors 1:12:47 0
“So Kevin Hall, who I look to as one of our top nutrition scientists based at NIH, he resigned in conflict with um uh Kennedy uh because they wanted him to twist his report. Now this is this is another big problem, Mike. So he had a paper coming out about the ultrarocessed food.”

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Longevity Supplements, Predatory Experts & Continuous Glucose Monitors | Dr. Eric Topol
Exploring Aging, Genetics, Disease Prevention, Nutrition, and Lifestyle Factors 1:19:50 0
“We have the worst consumption, highest consumption of ultraprocessed foods in the world here in the US.”

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Longevity Supplements, Predatory Experts & Continuous Glucose Monitors | Dr. Eric Topol
Exploring Aging, Genetics, Disease Prevention, Nutrition, and Lifestyle Factors 1:19:54 0
“It has been tied to cancer, neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, every bad outcome, right?”

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The Nutritional Scientist: Do Not Eat After 9pm! Link Between Chewing & Belly Fat!
Proper Eating Habits for Weight Loss and Healthy Digestion Tips 53:01 0
“if we eat a good amount of fruits vegetables pulses if we try not to eat too much heavily processed foods if we try and get a bit of diversity in our diet we're doing okay”

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The Nutritional Scientist: Do Not Eat After 9pm! Link Between Chewing & Belly Fat!
Proper Eating Habits for Weight Loss and Healthy Digestion Tips 1:02:06 0
“RFK Jr say recently seed oils are one of the most unhealthy ingredients that we have in foods and the reason they're in Foods is because they're heavily subsidized they're very cheap but they are associated with all kinds of very serious illnesses including body-wide inflammation which affects all of our health it's one of the worst things you can eat it's almost impossible to avoid if you eat any processed food.”

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Cognitive decline is NOT inevitable: Dale Bredesen, M.D.
Prevent Cognitive Decline: Empower with Brain-Boosting Strategies & Tips 19:48 0
“You're essentially describing eating lots of vegetables, a lot of wild fish, meats, occasionally, healthy fats, fiber. Essentially, you're avoiding ultraprocessed foods and lots of sugar.”

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What’s Really in Your “Healthy” Food? A Conversation with Thrive Market CEO Nick Green
Uncovering Truth About Ingredients in Healthy Foods: Thrive Market Insights 49:53 0
“Seed oils are like by definition ultraprocessed foods, right? They're like extracted using chemical solvents, things like hexane.”

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Protein Amount, Quality and Timing – with Dr. Donald Layman | The Proof Podcast EP 236
Optimal Protein Intake for Health and Muscle Function Explained 1:21:09 0
“The primary problem with the standard American diet or standard Western diet is the fact that what is it 60% of calories are coming from ultra-processed foods.”

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How Does Stress Affect Aging: Science-Backed Guide for Longevity | Dr Sharon Bergquist | EP #365
Optimizing Stress for Health: Benefits, Risks, and Practical Recommendations 10:46 0
“The good stressors are ones where we net resilience. The harmful everyday stressors um to put some examples around this would be things like the processed foods being sedentary um financial hardship.”

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Brain Expert: These Common Habits SHRINK Your Brain – Alzheimer’s, Fatigue & Lost Joy | Daniel Amen
How Everyday Habits Impact Brain Health and Mental Well-being 15:49 0
“Arizona where they're banning ultraprocessed foods to be sold on school campuses.”

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Dr. Robert Lustig: How Sugar & Processed Foods Impact Your Health
Understanding the Complex Relationship Between Nutrition and Metabolic Health 1:04:16 0
“if I consume fructose in the form of let's say a highly processed food has minimal antioxidants but it's got plenty of calories typically uh and it's disrupting the tight junctions making my gut leaky”

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Dr. Robert Lustig: How Sugar & Processed Foods Impact Your Health
Understanding the Complex Relationship Between Nutrition and Metabolic Health 1:36:08 0
“inevitably every one of those people is blown away by the fact that it works and assumes that it's all because of reduced calorie intake overall and they lose like anywhere from 30 to 55 lbs and keep it off and they like hey this is great actually still eat ribeye steaks and salads and but they're not eating croutons they're and so in some sense it looks extreme it sounds ketogenic but it's nothing like that you're just saying basically stay away from you're eliminating processed foods you're eliminating liquid calories in in general you and on and on so there's nothing sophisticated about it”

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Dr. Robert Lustig: How Sugar & Processed Foods Impact Your Health
Understanding the Complex Relationship Between Nutrition and Metabolic Health 1:38:10 0
“what makes insulin go up well two things refine carbohydrate and sugar those are the two things that make insulin go up in addition Branch chain amino acids make insulin go up as well Lucine isoline veine which is in cornfed beef chicken and fish processed food”

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Dr. Robert Lustig: How Sugar & Processed Foods Impact Your Health
Understanding the Complex Relationship Between Nutrition and Metabolic Health 2:17:54 0
“our kids are suffering under the weight the burden of this chronic disaster of ultra processed food which is not food and no wonder they're all obese and uh um uh sick and um uh you know doing so poorly in school and by the way also depressed”

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Dr. Robert Lustig: How Sugar & Processed Foods Impact Your Health
Understanding the Complex Relationship Between Nutrition and Metabolic Health 2:18:18 0
“Ultra processed food has now been shown in three separate studies to correlate with depression in teenagers”

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Dr. Robert Lustig: How Sugar & Processed Foods Impact Your Health
Understanding the Complex Relationship Between Nutrition and Metabolic Health 2:37:01 0
“three principles if you adhere to these three principles you can turn any food healthy including Ultra processed food number one protect the liver number two feed the gut number three support the brain”

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Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation
Transform health by improving metabolism, hormone regulation, blood sugar control. 1:27:28 0
“an amazing study from Kevin Hall just recently where he basically locked people up at the NIH and he for two weeks he had them eat Ultra processed food and for two weeks he had them eat real food and people ate 7,000 more calories in the two week period uh when they were eating Ultra processed food versus the unprocessed food.”

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Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation
Transform health by improving metabolism, hormone regulation, blood sugar control. 1:33:55 0
“contrast that with a highly processed diet or even a minimally processed diet and you can get the taste you can get the macronutrients you can get the calories but you don't meaning the brain doesn't really have a sense of it can't directly map taste calories micronutrients on um onto one another and so you can imagine that the neural circuits responsible for hunger and satiety would get immensely confused by what's in a highly processed food.”

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Dr. Casey Means: Transform Your Health by Improving Metabolism, Hormone & Blood Sugar Regulation
Transform health by improving metabolism, hormone regulation, blood sugar control. 2:13:39 0
“about 70% of the items on the shelves in the grocery store are ultra-processed food and those ultra-processed foods are built on refined added sugars and refined added grains”

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How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner
Influence of Diets on Health: Insights, Challenges, and Recommendations 25:10 0
“Let's talk about processed foods. That gets a lot of attention nowadays and there are I think we need to parse what we mean by processed foods.”

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The Longevity Expert: Is There A Link Between Milk & Cancer? + Ozempic Can Really Mess You Up!
Optimizing Health: Nutrition, Exercise, Mental Wellness, Environmental Concerns, Sleep, Holistic Approaches 0:37 0
“we live in a toxic landscape of enticing addictive highly processed food which is why 93% of us have some metabolic dysfunction”

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The Longevity Expert: Is There A Link Between Milk & Cancer? + Ozempic Can Really Mess You Up!
Optimizing Health: Nutrition, Exercise, Mental Wellness, Environmental Concerns, Sleep, Holistic Approaches 10:11 0
“I fixed his gut I optimized his nutrition I I get the lead out of his system I got all the processed food out”

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The Longevity Expert: Is There A Link Between Milk & Cancer? + Ozempic Can Really Mess You Up!
Optimizing Health: Nutrition, Exercise, Mental Wellness, Environmental Concerns, Sleep, Holistic Approaches 11:43 0
“what changed was our diet was environmental toxins was our microbiome was our nutritional deficiencies because of the ultra processed food we're eating”

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The Longevity Expert: Is There A Link Between Milk & Cancer? + Ozempic Can Really Mess You Up!
Optimizing Health: Nutrition, Exercise, Mental Wellness, Environmental Concerns, Sleep, Holistic Approaches 13:39 0
“we live in a toxic nutritional landscape it's a nutritional Wasteland a carnival of of uh enticing colorful addictive highly processed food-like substances that drive our biology in all the wrong ways”

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The Longevity Expert: Is There A Link Between Milk & Cancer? + Ozempic Can Really Mess You Up!
Optimizing Health: Nutrition, Exercise, Mental Wellness, Environmental Concerns, Sleep, Holistic Approaches 23:10 0
“eating real food doesn't have to be expensive you don't have to have a $70 wagu ribeye steak right you can you can eat real food and it's just as simple as not eating the ultr processed food”

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The Longevity Expert: Is There A Link Between Milk & Cancer? + Ozempic Can Really Mess You Up!
Optimizing Health: Nutrition, Exercise, Mental Wellness, Environmental Concerns, Sleep, Holistic Approaches 1:07:54 0
“when you look at the Yale food addiction scale which is a validated metric for food addiction now different people have various degrees right there are people who can't stop eating sheet cakes and there's people who you know crave ice cream once in a while it's not true food addiction but you look at the data globally 14% of adults and 12% of kids meet the criteria according to the Yale food addiction scale for food addiction from Ultra processed food from sugar carb refined carbohydrates.”

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The Longevity Expert: Is There A Link Between Milk & Cancer? + Ozempic Can Really Mess You Up!
Optimizing Health: Nutrition, Exercise, Mental Wellness, Environmental Concerns, Sleep, Holistic Approaches 1:18:22 0
“I would say eliminate Ultra processed food, dramatically reduce or limit sugar and starch from your diet, flour products particularly.”

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World’s #1 Longevity Expert: How To Live Longer in 4 Simple Steps
Optimal Health: Key Pillars for Longevity and Well-being Essentials 21:02 0
“if you can just walk the outside perimeter of the grocery store and only buy what's there and not go up and down the aisles you're going to do a lot better because what you're probably going to end up eating is vegetables fruit meat eggs dairy cheese like you're going to not get into processed foods very much.”

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Exercise Scientist’s Masterclass On Longevity – Dr Mike Israetel
Factors and Strategies for Enhancing Longevity and Quality of Life 17:55 0
“ultra processed foods are more palatable, often more calorie dense.”

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