“…Interestingly, some longitudinal studies recently have associated high consumption of ultraprocessed foods (UPF) with a higher risk of obesity (6,15,16), cardiovascular diseases (17)(18)(19)(20), diabetes mellitus (21), cancer (22) and mortality in general (23). Furthermore, a review study by Moradi et al (24), which analyzed nine cross-sectional and three longitudinal studies, concluded that a 10% increase in the caloric intake from ultra-processed foods was associated with a 7%, 6%, and 5% higher risk of overweight, obesity, and abdominal obesity, respectively.…”