{"id":26856,"date":"2025-10-09T02:10:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T02:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=26856"},"modified":"2025-10-09T02:10:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T02:10:20","slug":"what-are-ultra-processed-foods-doing-to-our-bodies-podcast-ultra-processed-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=26856","title":{"rendered":"What are ultra-processed foods doing to our bodies? \u2013 podcast | Ultra-processed foods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Rates of bowel and colon cancer have been increasing over the last two decades. For <strong>Devi Sridhar<\/strong>, the chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh, what we eat could be one of the main reasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The rise, she tells <strong>Nosheen Iqbal,<\/strong> isn\u2019t just due to wider screening or better diagnosis, and it isn\u2019t only found in one particular country, but across the developed world. Scientists have been looking for a likely culprit for a number of years and now, slowly, one is emerging: ultra-processed food.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">From seemingly healthy snacks to long-life supermarket breads, these foods are everywhere \u2013 they can comprise up to 50 to 60% of our diets. So, why are they being linked to a rise in cancers, and what should be done about it?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dcr-1inf02i\"><\/span> Photograph: wildpixel\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rates of bowel and colon cancer have been increasing over the last two decades. For Devi Sridhar, the chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh, what we eat could be one of the main reasons. The rise, she tells Nosheen Iqbal, isn\u2019t just due to wider screening or better diagnosis, and it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[2249,7680,515,7681],"class_list":{"0":"post-26856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-bodies","9":"tag-foods","10":"tag-podcast","11":"tag-ultraprocessed"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}