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Chasing Life

How Worried Should You Be About Ultraprocessed Foods?

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.47.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

We've all heard of processed foods, but what about ultraprocessed foods, which make up more than half of the typical American diet? In this special Chasing Life: Spotlight, CNN Medical Correspondent Meg Tirrell explores how these foods became so widespread and the potential risks they pose to our health. She speaks with Professor Marion Nestle, a leading authority on nutrition and food policy and NIH senior investigator Kevin Hall, who conducted the first and only controlled clinical trial on ultraprocessed foods. Hear about the study's remarkable findings; it may change some of the choices you make in the grocery store. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:18.0

Hey everyone, it's Sanjay here. On the last season of the podcast we talked all about weight and health.

0:25.0

And of course that meant talking a lot about food, calories, ingredients, even the times of day that we should eat.

0:31.0

Now the science is obviously pretty clear that eating fruits and

0:33.8

vegetables, so-called whole foods, can lead to better health. But here's the

0:37.8

question we also had. Just how bad are the food items that are on the other end of

0:42.1

the spectrum.

0:43.0

My colleague Meg Terrell wanted to take a deep dive into something you've probably heard a lot about recently.

0:49.0

Ultra processed foods.

0:51.0

There is a lot to learn there, some fascinating stuff, and some of it is probably

0:55.6

going to change the way you shop.

1:00.1

I'm at my local supermarket, picking up the typical things my family eats.

1:04.1

Cereal, milk, eggs, peppers, goldfish.

1:08.4

You may have guessed, I have little kids.

1:11.2

And like most parents, I worry about what they eat, especially now

1:15.6

when it feels like there's headline after headline about a lot of the items

1:18.9

in my shopping cart. Ultra processed foods.

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