Shocking: ultraprocessed food now comprises the majority of total energy intake consumed by children

In this new JAMA paper (Aug 2021), a serial cross-sectional study of nationally representative data from 33 795 US youths aged 2-19 years shows that the estimated percentage of total energy consumed from ultraprocessed foods increased from 61.4% to 67.0%, whereas the percentage of total energy consumed from unprocessed or minimally processed foods decreased from 28.8% to 23.5%.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2782866

ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF THIS VIDEO:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Fontana_(medical_researcher)
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=q7oQtGIAAAAJ&hl=en

BOOKS:
https://www.amazon.com/Luigi-Fontana/e/B093ZTVFLP/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1

KEY SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES:
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003699
https://www.nature.com/articles/511405a
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/328/5976/321.abstract
https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/446346
https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(15)00186-5.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165614709002028

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