<story><title>Ultra-processed foods may contribute to cognitive decline</title><url>https://cam.mbi.ufl.edu/2023/01/31/6089/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>strict9</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;Even packaged breads, including those high in nutritious whole grains, qualify as ultra-processed in many cases because of the additives and preservatives they contain.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;However much I&amp;#x27;d like to alter my diet to be more healthy, including flavored nuts or bread as ultraprocessed means I have nearly zero chance avoiding a sizable portion of what academic scientists label as ultraprocessed.&lt;p&gt;These studies and press releases seem counterproductive. If sliced bread or fancy nuts is in the same category as aerosol cheese or high calorie soda, a lot of people are going to struggle to understand what &lt;i&gt;isn&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt; ultraprocessed and give up trying to select better items at the grocery store.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ultra-processed foods may contribute to cognitive decline</title><url>https://cam.mbi.ufl.edu/2023/01/31/6089/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thrwaway98423</author><text>Even though this is a review, it still suffers from the fact that diet studies are not controlled, randomized, or blind.&lt;p&gt;My mother has early onset dementia. Her habits were very healthy for 30+ years (quit drinking, quit smoking, daily exercise, lifetime healthy BMI, moderate diet) and otherwise physically she is in extremely good shape for her age. But one of the early, subtle signs of her cognitive decline was a reluctance to cook real meals. She now has progressed to a state where she can still use a smartphone or laptop for basic tasks, but isn&amp;#x27;t able to cook any sort of complex recipe from scratch, even one she previously did from memory. Seems pretty obvious to me that it&amp;#x27;s just as likely that cognitive decline causes an inability in older adults to plan and cook healthy meals, not the other way around.</text></comment>