Research indicates that the consumption of ultra-processed foods significantly contributes to raising the risk of incidence and death from various types of cancer, especially the rarer types, such as ovary. Continue reading to find out how the ultra-processedcan cause cancer.
Ultra-processed foods are bad for your health
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The conclusion was drawn from a recent study, exclusively by the The Tares and the Wheat, which just came out in the magazine Clinical Medicine and adds further evidence to what researchers from different fields have been discussing for years.
The research was led by Kiara Chang, a public health policy researcher at Imperial College, London. The study sought to assess the increased incidence and deaths caused by various types of cancer in people aged 40 to 69 years.
The team of researchers collected dietary data between 2009 and 2012 from 197,426 people registered in the UK Biobank. This is a biomedical database covering half a million Britons. They accompanied him until January 2021.
The team had to be careful not to add individuals who had early cancer, that is, the participants did not have the disease when they entered the study.
“At the end of the period, almost 16 thousand of these people developed some type of cancer and another four thousand died from the disease”, says the researcher.
The study showed that when you increase your consumption of ultra-processed foods by 10%, your overall cancer risk increases by 2%, and women's risk of developing ovarian cancer increases by 19%. This is relevant data and draws attention to the exaggerated consumption of these foods.
Direct link between several specific types of cancer and the consumption of ultra-processed foods
Only two previous surveys, carried out in France and another in the United States, carried out the analysis and correlated poorly diet and incidence of the most common cancers, such as breast, prostate and colorectal, with results found in the study carried out in UK.
The big question is that, over the years, the consumption of these foods has increased dramatically in Brazil. According to specialists consulted by Joio, the research is important because the consumption of ultra-processed products has been increasing.
The IBGE Family Budget Survey (POF) between 2002 and 2003 showed that the presence of ultra-processed products on the Brazilian table was 12.6%, however, between 2017 and 2018, consumption jumped to 19.7%.
The distribution of this consumption, according to the IBGE, will vary with age: among adolescents up to 18 years old, ultra-processed foods occupy 26.7% of the diet; among adults up to 59 years old, consumption is 19.5%; among people over 60 years of age, it is 15.1%.
Among the conditions associated with cancer that food causes are diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and obesity or the nutritional imbalance caused by products.
In Brazil, more than 230,000 individuals die of cancer and 450,000 cases are diagnosed annually, according to the Inca (National Cancer Institute). The disease is the second leading cause of death in Brazil.
We need to pay attention to what we consume or seek to balance our food. In addition to bringing health risks, these products do not provide the nutrition that our body needs.
