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2 different studies are discussed in the article: For the second study, also in the BMJ, a team at the University of Navarra in Pamplona monitored the eating h

2 different studies are discussed in the article: For the second study, also in the BMJ, a team at the University of Navarra in Pamplona monitored the eating habits and health of nearly 20,000 Spanish graduates from 1999 to 2014. Over the course of the study, 335 participants died. Once factors such as age, sex, body mass index and whether or not people smoked were taken into account, the trend was clear. The top quarter consumers of ultra-processed foods – who had more than four servings a day – were 62% more likely to have died than those in the bottom quarter, who ate less than two portions a day. For each additional serving, the risk of death rose 18%.

reups 7y ago
So, step by step: 1. take my profile as a male, non-smoker of normal body mass, aged 18 to 50. 2. Put me in a room with 20 others that match my profile with the exact same age and birthday. 3. Break us up into quartiles, 5 individuals per section of the bell curve. 25% of the group take doses of [(0|1), 2, 3 or 4] servings of meals including highly processed foods (breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert) each day for a year, starting at birth. 4. The first group, group A: (0|1), no matter what you do, at this level the effect is the same. You can totally avoid and abstain or dose just once, at any meal and the outcome is the same. This is the normal death distribution. People in this group get to go about their lives and die as the reaper would have it, natural causes, accidents, foul play, all in line with typical circumstances around the world. 5. For serving groups B (2), C (3) and D (4), each group is handed a Charter Arms Bulldog five-shot revolver to play Russian roulette with. Group B puts one lead hollow point round in the cylinder, and each subsequent group adds a round. On their next birthday, every member of the 15 men in these groups must point the gun at their head and squeeze the trigger once, and then the next man takes their turn. 6. By midnight of the birthday party, we conduct a physical examination of all members, and find the bullets laid out exactly where we'd expect. Group A has none killed by our special gunshot wounds, group B: one dead, group C: two dead, group D: three dead. Cause of death in all cases: cranial lead poisoning. Suffice to say, processed foods are a form of Russian roulette but instead of bullets, the weapon is loaded with harmful adulterants.

reups 7y ago

So, step by step: 1. take my profile as a male, non-smoker of normal body mass, aged 18 to 50. 2. Put me in a room with 20 others that match my profile with the exact same age and birthday. 3. Break us up into quartiles, 5 individuals per section of the bell curve. 25% of the group take doses of [(0|1), 2, 3 or 4] servings of meals including highly processed foods (breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert) each day for a year, starting at birth. 4. The first group, group A: (0|1), no matter what you do, at this level the effect is the same. You can totally avoid and abstain or dose just once, at any meal and the outcome is the same. This is the normal death distribution. People in this group get to go about their lives and die as the reaper would have it, natural causes, accidents, foul play, all in line with typical circumstances around the world. 5. For serving groups B (2), C (3) and D (4), each group is handed a Charter Arms Bulldog five-shot revolver to play Russian roulette with. Group B puts one lead hollow point round in the cylinder, and each subsequent group adds a round. On their next birthday, every member of the 15 men in these groups must point the gun at their head and squeeze the trigger once, and then the next man takes their turn. 6. By midnight of the birthday party, we conduct a physical examination of all members, and find the bullets laid out exactly where we'd expect. Group A has none killed by our special gunshot wounds, group B: one dead, group C: two dead, group D: three dead. Cause of death in all cases: cranial lead poisoning. Suffice to say, processed foods are a form of Russian roulette but instead of bullets, the weapon is loaded with harmful adulterants.