4 ultraprocessed foods to take off your shopping list to increase your longevity

Dr Helena is interviewed about ultra-processed food by Australian Health Care Journalist, Sabrina Rogers-Anderson.

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4 ultraprocessed foods to take off your shopping list to increase your longevity

We know ultraprocessed foods are bad for us, but avoiding them entirely is unrealistic. The latest research shows that these 4 foods are the ones to steer clear of.

By Sabrina Rogers-Anderson

While neuroscientists are busy engineering foods our brains are powerless to resist, we’re becoming obese and developing life-threatening illnesses at alarming rates.

“Poor diet is now the leading cause of early death on planet Earth for human beings,” says Dr Chris van Tulleken, author of Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?, in this sobering video. “The science is now really clear that the more ultraprocessed food you eat, the higher your risk of early death, cancer, heart attacks, strokes, inflammatory diseases like Crohn’s disease, metabolic disease like type 2 diabetes, mental health problems like anxiety and depression, and finally and perhaps most worryingly of all, dementia.”

But with ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) so readily available and often cleverly disguised as healthy by cunning marketers, how can we possibly avoid them?

“I tell my clients to follow the 80/20 rule where they eat nutritious foods 80% of the time and enjoy discretionary foods 20% of the time,” says Lisa Hanlon, clinical nutritionist and founder of The Hive Health Hub & Dispensary. “If you tell yourself you can’t eat something, you may end up craving it, caving in and feeling bad about yourself.”

Knowing which foods are kryptonite for your health and which aren’t as bad for you can help you make smart choices. Here’s everything you need to know.

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