Did you miss it? Here's our food reading selection of the week.

📑 "Ultra-processed food exposure and adverse health outcomes: umbrella review of epidemiological meta-analyses".

Ultra-processed food (UPF) is directly linked to 32 harmful effects to health, including a higher risk of heart disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes, adverse mental health and early death, according to the world’s largest review of its kind.

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So let's stop debating about whether UPFs are harmful, and while we work on further understanding the mechanisms that lead to those harmful outcomes, let's get started and do something about it.

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💡Curious about how food policy and health trends are shifting? You’ll find more timely insights in the full GoCoCo blog.

📰 How UPFs shape our agriculture

Excellent article from Anthony Fardet and Michel Duru on the environmental impact of ultra-processed foods (UPFs).
Long story short: the UPF industry foments single-culture intensive farming (soy, palm oil, ...), which significantly contributes to:
❗ emissions (amongst which GHG > climate change)
❗ water run-off quality
❗ biodiversity
❗ soil pollution
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💪 Bite Back "Fuel us don't fool us" campaign.

Kudos to Dev Sharma and the whole youth activist group, you are an inspiration! The majority of the biggest food and drink manufacturers – 7 out of 10 to be exact – are reliant on selling unhealthy products in the UK.
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Want to keep reading? Take a look at our other press roundups, including the April 2 edition and the end-of-May update, where we highlight key public health stories shaping the national conversation.

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