We spoke to Pediatrician, Dr. Khutso Sebetseba about diseases among children triggered by ultra-processed foods.

This on the back of a teenager in America taking on 10 of the world’s biggest food companies, including Coca-Cola, Nestlé and Kraft Heinz, suing them for deliberately engineering their ultra-processed food (UPF) products to be addictive, and for targeting their marketing to children, alleging that eating UPFs causes chronic diseases and lifelong illness and suffering.

At the age of 16, Bryce Martinez was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

The rates of these diseases in children “are now surging”, the complaint says, doubling in recent years.

We spoke to Pediatrician, Dr. Khutso Sebetseba about diseases among children triggered by ultra-processed foods.
This on the back of a teenager in America taking on 10 of the world&rsquo;s biggest food companies, including Coca-Cola, Nestl&eacute; and Kraft Heinz, suing them for deliberately engineering their ultra-processed food (UPF) products to be addictive, and for targeting their marketing to children, alleging that eating UPFs causes chronic diseases and lifelong illness and suffering. At the age of 16, Bryce Martinez was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
The rates of these diseases in children &ldquo;are now surging&rdquo;, the complaint says, doubling in recent years.

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