Fast food is often ultra-transformed
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Two of the largest health problems in the modern era – ultra -treble foods (UPF) and microplastics – have one thing in common: we do not really know if or how they harm our health. But the researchers offer a daring new idea: that these problems are really linked and that the UPFs contain particularly high levels of microplastics which aggravate mental health.
“We know that ultra-transformed food has microplastics. We know that ultra-transformed foods are also associated with depression and anxiety. We thought it would be useful to extinguish the hypothesis that potentially microplastics could publicize this association, with warning …
