An article within the Journal of the Academy of Diet and Dietetics discovered an affiliation between chubby/weight problems and consumption of extremely–processed meals in US adolescents.

The examine checked out 3,600 adolescents who reported their meals consumption over a 24-hour interval. The outcomes are fairly robust: the extra ultra-processed meals consumed, the larger the percentages of chubby and weight problems.

Jan at The Low Carb Diabetic weblog reported that:

Extremely-processed meals make up ‘two-thirds of energy consumed by kids and teenagers’
Consultants from Tufts College