Cook more at home to reduce ultra-processed food intake, say cardiologist groups ‘Clinical consensus statement’ also urges heart doctors to advise patients to not eat late at night, and chew slowly Want to reduce your intake of ultra-processed food? If so, cook at home more often, don’t eat late at night and chew your food more slowly. Those are among some of the tips doctors have offered to help people limit the amount of UPF they consume given the acute and growing danger it poses to human health worldwide.