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Ultra-Processed Food Is Killing Us

5 May 2020 · 1 min

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This is a YouTube video titled "Ultra-Processed Food Is Killing Us" containing a conversation recorded on May 5, 2020, discussing the health impacts of ultra-processed foods and lifestyle-related chronic diseases. The dialogue features multiple speakers including Ask AI Mark, who highlights the global health burden of poor diet compared to infectious diseases and critiques the focus of major health foundations.

One cigarette won't kill you, neither will one donor. But over time, they cause significant damage to health. And right now, the big issue of our time, what's responsible for more disease and death globally than physical inactivity, smoking and alcohol combined, is poor diet. And ultra-processed foods really are the low-hanging fruit that we need to concentrate on. More than 50% of what we consume in the UK, and I'm sure that it's similar in the US, is ultra-processed junk food, Mark. 60% of our calories is junk.
Yeah, it's not a competition we wanna win, but it's 60%. Yeah, it's pretty terrible. You know, and I think what's striking looking at the data is that over 70% of deaths worldwide are not from infectious disease. They're not from malaria, RTB or AIDS or viral pandemics. They're from lifestyle preventable, mostly diet preventable chronic disease. Yeah. Something people don't realize and yet most of our resources are focused on infectious pandemics, malaria, TB, AIDS, viral things. I mean, these are good things to support and deal with, but when you look at the Gates Foundation, they're the most influential foundation in health out there and they're not paying much attention to this. They're starting to, but this has not been a focus and I think this has just come on like a juggernaut over the last 40 years and people just haven't been aware that this is happening.