{"id":235517,"date":"2026-04-19T02:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T07:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/people-who-consume-ultra-processed-foods-have-worse-muscle-health-study-suggests"},"modified":"2026-04-19T02:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T07:03:11","slug":"people-who-consume-ultra-processed-foods-have-worse-muscle-health-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/people-who-consume-ultra-processed-foods-have-worse-muscle-health-study-suggests","title":{"rendered":"People who consume ultra-processed foods have worse muscle health, study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/people-who-consume-ultra-processed-foods-have-worse-muscle-health-study-suggests.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers found that a diet high in ultra-processed foods is associated with higher amounts of fat stored inside thigh muscles, regardless of calorie or fat intake, physical activity or sociodemographic factors in a population at risk for knee osteoarthritis. Results of the study were published in <i>Radiology<\/i>. Higher amounts of intramuscular fat in the thigh could potentially increase the risk for knee osteoarthritis.<\/p>\n<p>Ultra-processed foods usually have longer shelf lives and can be highly appealing and convenient. They contain a combination of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2025-06-ultra-foods-affect-brain-overeating.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">sugar, fat, salt and carbohydrates<\/a> which affect the brain\u2019s reward system, making it hard to stop eating.<\/p>\n<p>These foods include breakfast cereals, margarines\/spreads, packaged snacks, hot dogs, soft drinks and energy drinks, candies and desserts, frozen pizzas, ready-to-eat meals, mass-produced packaged breads and buns, which all include synthesized ingredients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers found that a diet high in ultra-processed foods is associated with higher amounts of fat stored inside thigh muscles, regardless of calorie or fat intake, physical activity or sociodemographic factors in a population at risk for knee osteoarthritis. Results of the study were published in Radiology. Higher amounts of intramuscular fat in the thigh [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}