{"id":21497,"date":"2022-10-20T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/?p=21497"},"modified":"2025-12-17T10:41:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T10:41:26","slug":"media-bant-agrees-with-prof-tim-spector-on-the-dangers-of-ultra-processed-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/media-bant-agrees-with-prof-tim-spector-on-the-dangers-of-ultra-processed-foods\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: BANT agrees with prof. Tim Spector on the dangers of ultra-processed foods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent article by Prof Tim Spector. We firmly support the concept of all calories not being equal and the dangers of ultra-processed foods. The food industry needs to rethink the meaning of diet foods and how artificial and natural sweeteners confuse our body&#8217;s metabolism and microbiome and the impact it has on our health and wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/BANT_FFYH_ULTRA-PROCESSED-FOOD.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-19353 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Ultra-processed-foods-283x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"\/\/bant.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Ultra-processed-foods-283x400.png 283w, \/\/bant.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Ultra-processed-foods-566x800.png 566w, \/\/bant.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Ultra-processed-foods.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent article by Prof Tim Spector. We firmly support the concept of all calories not being equal and the dangers of ultra-processed foods. The food industry needs to rethink the meaning of diet foods and how artificial and natural sweeteners confuse our body&#8217;s metabolism and microbiome and the impact it has on our health and wellbeing. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":9683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1368,1395],"tags":[159,1418,241,1417,1305],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-21497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bant-in-action","category-media","tag-bant","tag-daily-mail","tag-food-for-your-health","tag-professor-tim-spector","tag-ultra-processed-foods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/media\/9683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21497"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=21497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}