We might never know the truth about ultra-processed foods
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Re: We might never know the truth about ultra-processed foods
#2> Most are high in fat, sugar or salt
Yeah. It's this. For all the media obsession about a new "ultra-processed" category, it's the same old boring dietary conclusions: salt is bad, sugar is bad, saturated fat is mostly bad.
You don't have to know anything about how food was "processed", you can still just look at the label.
Re: We might never know the truth about ultra-processed foods
#3> Most are high in fat, sugar or salt Yeah. It's this. For all the media obsession about a new "ultra-processed" category, it's the same old boring dietary conclusions: salt is bad, sugar is bad, saturated fat is mostly bad. You don't have to know anything about how food was "processed", you can still just look at the label.
While all these are bad, I feel that preservatives, artificial flavours, smootheners, etc have to play a role there as well.
Re: We might never know the truth about ultra-processed foods
#4> Most are high in fat, sugar or salt Yeah. It's this. For all the media obsession about a new "ultra-processed" category, it's the same old boring dietary conclusions: salt is bad, sugar is bad, saturated fat is mostly bad. You don't have to know anything about how food was "processed", you can still just look at the label.
The processing does matter, and the more processed it is the more fat, sugar, and salt companies can put in.
Re: We might never know the truth about ultra-processed foods
#5> Most are high in fat, sugar or salt Yeah. It's this. For all the media obsession about a new "ultra-processed" category, it's the same old boring dietary conclusions: salt is bad, sugar is bad, saturated fat is mostly bad. You don't have to know anything about how food was "processed", you can still just look at the label.
I'd recommend you read these two books "Ultraprocessed people" and "Metabolical". They go into depth of how and why processing of food at industrial scale is bad for your mental and psychical health and the environment as well.
Re: We might never know the truth about ultra-processed foods
#6> Most are high in fat, sugar or salt Yeah. It's this. For all the media obsession about a new "ultra-processed" category, it's the same old boring dietary conclusions: salt is bad, sugar is bad, saturated fat is mostly bad. You don't have to know anything about how food was "processed", you can still just look at the label.
I'd recommend you read these two books "Ultraprocessed people" and "Metabolical". They go into depth of how and why processing of food at industrial scale is bad for your mental and psychical health and the environment as well.
Care to summarize?
Re: We might never know the truth about ultra-processed foods
#7> Most are high in fat, sugar or salt Yeah. It's this. For all the media obsession about a new "ultra-processed" category, it's the same old boring dietary conclusions: salt is bad, sugar is bad, saturated fat is mostly bad. You don't have to know anything about how food was "processed", you can still just look at the label.
Talk to keto fans, even doctors, and they’ll tell you saturated fat is better. The problem is the combination of saturated fat with simple carbs. shrug
Whenever I point out no cardiologists seem to agree on or recommend keto, these same people say “oh they will eventually, they’ll see they’ve been wrong”
It’s a little annoying how something as basic as food produces such large disagreements among experts. Makes me wonder what we really know.
Re: We might never know the truth about ultra-processed foods
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Re: We might never know the truth about ultra-processed foods
#9> Most are high in fat, sugar or salt Yeah. It's this. For all the media obsession about a new "ultra-processed" category, it's the same old boring dietary conclusions: salt is bad, sugar is bad, saturated fat is mostly bad. You don't have to know anything about how food was "processed", you can still just look at the label.
The processing does matter, and the more processed it is the more fat, sugar, and salt companies can put in.
Or, viewed another way, the more processed it is, the more everything else is processed out, so that fat, salt, and sugar are almost all that's left.
Re: We might never know the truth about ultra-processed foods
#10> Most are high in fat, sugar or salt Yeah. It's this. For all the media obsession about a new "ultra-processed" category, it's the same old boring dietary conclusions: salt is bad, sugar is bad, saturated fat is mostly bad. You don't have to know anything about how food was "processed", you can still just look at the label.
The processing does matter, and the more processed it is the more fat, sugar, and salt companies can put in.
It also tends to indicate that the main ingredients aren’t very nice unprocessed; otherwise they wouldn’t need so much processing.