Prof Tim Spector
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So, and that's something you can always keep in your freezer and pull out when you need it.
It doesn't have to be seasonal and they're very cheap.
So I think the idea that cheap means processed isn't always correct.
And I think that's a big misconception.
Virtually everything is processed to some degree.
As you said, yogurt, cheese, all the dairy products.
And we know that things like yogurt have been shown to be healthy for us.
So I think we need to stop worrying about that and start thinking more sensibly, has that processing led to something unhealthy about it?
And the current definitions of UPF are really far too broad.
because the current definition is not a health score, it's a processing score.
So it's saying how much, according to these Brazilian researchers, this food has been processed in very broad categories.
There are only like four categories of them.
And someone can have
very minimal amounts of processing that aren't harmful for your health, and yet it's included in the top category.
So I think they were fine for research at population level, the sort of stuff I do, epidemiology, but not for an individual.
And that's why we've come up with a new way of scoring this, that instead of 60% of all your food being UPF, or you have to avoid, we've cut it down to about 25% of the real ones,
And it's not just processing score.
It's actually accounting for all the things in ultra-processed food that are bad for you, which is quite interesting, really, because up until recently, we had no clue what they were.
We thought it was just the additives.
People focused on these red dyes or something else.
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