Gut Advisor

The gluten free diet has been a boon for industrial food

This has implications for people with celiac disease, as another study found that celiac disease patients who consumed more ultra-processed gluten free food had more evidence of oxidative stress and inflammation than those consuming a more Mediterranean type diet.

What about “healthy” processed food?

One problem in determining just what about ultra-processed food is bad is that such foods are typically low in nutrients, so it’s hard to know whether the problems UPFs may cause is due to nutritional deficiencies, or to something about the processing itself.

All disease results from ultra-processed foods.

I’ve been seeing claims that “all disease results from ultra-processed foods”, with the major mechanism being effects on health mitochondria (the “power houses of the cell”), but is there any truth to it?