{"id":81438,"date":"2025-11-20T10:32:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=81438"},"modified":"2025-11-20T10:32:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:32:57","slug":"ultra-processed-food-is-global-health-threat-experts-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/20\/ultra-processed-food-is-global-health-threat-experts-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultra-processed food is global health threat, experts warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/2048\/cpsprodpb\/35c6\/live\/d0e8f2d0-c548-11f0-88be-3bc2aea1a256.jpg\" alt=\"Looking down on a table full of plates of pizza, burgers in buns, onion rings, french fries and cola drinks, which are all examples of ultra-processed foods. Hands are reaching out and picking up the different foods.\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Action is needed now to reduce ultra-processed food (UPF) in diets worldwide because of their threat to health, say international experts in a global review of research.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cy4pjjzd784o\"> Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Action is needed now to reduce ultra-processed food (UPF) in diets worldwide because of their threat to health, say international experts in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-food-and-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/bad-ultra-processed-food.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81439,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81438\/revisions\/81439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}