超加工食品可能加速衰老

Views Columnist The ageing column Ultra-processed foods could be making you age faster The evidence is becoming clearer that we have been missing an important contributor to premature ageing, says Graham Lawton A FEW months ago, I tried coining a neologism. I was writing a feature about how obesity, stress, heatwaves and pollution accelerate ageing, or senescence, in which I proposed that our modern world should be called the “senesogenic environment”. It didn’t stick. But I’d like to have another go, because I missed an important contributor to premature ageing: ultra- processed foods (UPFs). For anyone who has been living under a rock, UPFs are a class of foodstuffs that have been, er, ultra-processed. …