Technology, Diet, and the Burden of Chronic Disease

The diet of early hominids was mostly limited to fruits and insects. For this reason, humans have long strived to develop technologies to improve food availability, digestibility, safety, transportability, and storage life. However, the rate of change in food technology has greatly accelerated, with major implications to human nutrition and health. Here, Ludwig discusses three revolutions in food technology and association between diet based on ultraprocessed products and chronic disease.