Ultra-processed foods need tobacco-style warnings, says scientist
UPFs should also be heavily taxed due to impact on health and mortality, says scientist who coined term
Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are displacing healthy diets “all over the world” despite growing evidence of the risks they pose and should be sold with tobacco-style warnings, according to the nutritional scientist who first coined the term.
Prof Carlos Monteiro of the University of São Paulo will highlight the increasing danger UPFs present to children and adults at the International Congress on Obesity this week.
“UPFs are increasing their share in and domination of global diets, despite the risk they represent to health in terms of increasing the risk of multiple chronic diseases,” Monteiro told the Guardian ahead of the conference in São Paulo.
I’d like to see warnings on alcohol before this
Aren't there already? Surgeon General's Warning: Do not drive a pregnant woman under the influence blah blah blah
I think the point would to be make them like cigarette warning labels. At the moment the text can be hidden on a bottle or can in tiny text. It needs to be a big ugly white box with a black border and large text that gets people's attention.
And what good did it do for cigarettes? It's not like you're going to look at the pack and go "oh shit, it's bad for me?"
Everyone I know who gave up smoking recently, did so purely for cost reasons and took up vaping instead.
Nah do it like they do in Europe. Pictures of what it looks like to be held to the bed screaming by a 19y/o who had no idea what they signed up for while an ICU nurse shoves a tube up your ass so that the diarrhea they induced to rebalance your ammonia doesn't dissolve your anus as quickly except she can't get the tube to stay in because your anus has already been slightly dissolved so she keeps shoving the tube back in and you're still screaming because you're in acute alcohol withdrawal and the terrified child they're paying $12 an hour to help the ICU nurse restrain you seems to have snakes crawling out of their dinner-plate sized eyes.
where in Europe do they do that? I live in Europe and that doesn't sound familiar
I'm referring to the disturbing images on packaging.
Everything needs warnings because if used incorrectly they will do damage to you in some way. where do warning end?
even water 💦💦
Having recovered a dead body from the bottom of a lake, I can positively affirm it's not good for you.