Short-term ultraprocessed food overconsumption causes rapid metabolic harm including brain insulin resistance, fatty liver, and visceral fat gain.

Every taxpayer in England pays an extra £7,000 in tax per year to cover the consequences of ultra-processed food.

“Every taxpayer in England pays an extra £7,000 tax per year for the consequences of ultra-processed food.”

Severely obese patients can have paper-thin connective tissue due to severe protein malnutrition despite high caloric intake.

“The connective tissue, the stuff that's made up of protein that makes them that literally holds them together is paper thin because they're eating an incredible amount of calories, they're gaining fat, but they don't have any protein in their diet.”

Consuming an extra 1,200 to 1,500 calories daily from ultraprocessed foods for just 5 days leads to visceral fat gain.

“After that five days, they started to gain visceral fat.”