In recent years, many nutrition experts have linked the obesity epidemic to the spread of ultra-processed foods designed to withstand long shelf lives and irresistible combinations of salt, sugar, fat and other additives.
This type of food favors excessive consumption because it is rich in refined carbohydrates, added sugars and fats, which are attractive to the human taste, experts say. For this reason, we can say that the positive and healthy action that the food industry can take to reduce the national issue of weight gain is to regulate the content of processed foods.
