As you know, heart disease is the number one cause of premature mortality here in the US and throughout the world.

In today's show, we're going to talk about how consumption of ultra-processed foods are the main driver behind the high

incidence of cardiovascular disease.

This is a 27 year follow-up study titled

Higher Ultra Process Food consumption

is associated with incident risk of incident

coronary artery disease

in the atherosclerosis risk in community studies.

So this is the ARIC cohort that has been tracked for over 27 years.

There's 15,000 subjects in this particular cohort.

They're comprised of four different regions throughout the US and every, I think they've been

surveyed six or seven times over the past 27 years and in short this article and this follow-up

prospective study finds that higher consumption of ultra processed foods which we

will define very shortly especially the problematic foods, sugar sweetened beverages, bakery

products, sugary snacks, fats and oils like corn oil, canola oil, cottonseed oil, etc.

Are the main risk factors in problematic foods exacerbating the prevalence

of coronary artery disease and initiating atherosclerosis which is the formation of

clotting and the narrowing or occlusion of the very small coronary arteries.

So I think it's really important for people to understand because when you go to your doctor,

they are looking at your LDL cholesterol, your low-density lipoprotein cholesterol,

and making clinical assortations based upon that level of LDL cholesterol.

But it turns out that you can have normal LDL cholesterol and still have atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

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