It could increase the risk of depression, particularly among people whose daily diet comprises more than 30 per cent of UPF. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE – Heavy consumption of soft drinks, packaged snacks, canned meat and mass-produced bread could increase the risk of depression, according to a new study.
Promises Healthcare nutritionist and therapist Teo Kiok Seng agreed with the findings, saying that excessive consumption of UPF often leads to chronic low-grade inflammation. A cross-sectional study of more than 2,000 respondents in Singapore by the Singapore Food Agency’s National Centre for Food Science between October and December 2020 found that gender, age, ethnic group, housing and health status contributed to differences, to varying extents, in the consumption of processed food groups, with ethnicity being the key factor in driving the variations.
An experiment was conducted at the start of 2023 by scientists from King’s College London for BBC documentary Panorama on identical twins Aimee and Nancy, 24.
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