[The influence of ultra-processed food on cardiovascular disease: how "why do things the hard way?" makes our brains soft].

Abstract

Buying and consuming ultra-processed food makes life easy. Nowadays, there is more and more prove that the consumption of this food is associated with morbidity and mortality, e.g. cardiovascular disease, diabetes, neurocognitive diseases and cancer. Recently, Bonaccio et al. strenghtened this in a large prospective cohort for cardiovascular disease. They used among others the 'Nutri-Score' for their analysis. However, the reliability of this score remains under debate, and therefore, it is not the best to use as label for consumers. In short: although consumption of ultra-processed food is a risk factor for cardiovascular and other diseases, for consumers is remains difficult to recognize the healthiest food in the supermarket. What's in this for you, doc? Keep this in mind during your all-day practice and guide your patients to healthier foods during their consultation with you.