Ultra-processed foods increase cancer cases
Ultra-processed foods are industrial foods.
Mainly made from chemical substances or derived from other foods.
In addition to additives, flavor or texture to try to imitate natural foods.
These products are nutritionally unbalanced.
Ultra-processed foods, too, are precisely those that can have addictive.
Combinations by simultaneously offering high amounts of salt and fat or high concentrations of sugar and fat as a source of energy highly palatable to the human palate.
Ultra-processed food is behind the obesity problems in this country, not only in children, but also in young people.
The Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) of the La Caixa Foundation carried out an investigation in which it was shown that ultra-processed foods increase cancer cases.
More than 8 thousand people participated in this study. And the study was published in the scientific review Clinical Nutrition.
This research highlights that people who normally consume 10% of this ultra-processed food have up to an 11% chance of developing colorectal cancer.