How dangerous are ultra-processed foods for our health?

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• IA

  @Iainey · 2 years ago

  It astounds me how so many people are unaware about this, including me until recent times. This should absolutely be taught in schools!!

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• CH

  @chrisbaker2669 · 2 years ago

  It would be really helpful if it was required for the food manufacturers to print a UPF warning label.  Before I read the book Ultra Processed People I was unaware of how much ultra processed food there was and that it was harmful.  I didn’t know bread was ultra processed a lot of the time and it is hard to get real bread.

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• CH

  @charlesfleeman1765 · 2 years ago

  I have a whole food plant-based diet and do it cheaply, although I can afford more. However, in the last 9 years I have lived in 20 countries and 100 cities in Europe… and I have visited many supermarkets that had a dozen varieties of rice, but none that are whole grain. Sometimes a store like that will have a whole grain red or black rice for sale, but those options cost 3 times as much as the processed white and brown rices.

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• SM

  @smartguy9101 · 2 years ago

  Sometimes it's very difficult to find real food in more deprived areas of the Uk. Just lots of processed junk foods and take aways on every street. Corner shops with no fresh food. I don't eat any Ultra-processed foods so often find nothing to eat until I find a large supermarket. Why is it so hard to find healthy alternatives when everywhere you look the majority of people are overweight?

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• LI

  @lindajones4849 · 1 year ago

  Sorry, juice definitely spikes your blood sugar  . Its plenty of liquid sugar and ,NO FIBER. Its asbad as soda,  both are liquid sugar.

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• SE

  @Seetheren · 2 years ago (edited)

  What is sad is that if the world were to cut out ultra processed foods, I really do not believe there would be as much  food to go around. In other words, this world cannot produce nearly as much natural food as the world needs.

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• PR

  @PraveenSr8325 · 2 years ago

  One of the best documentaries I watched in my whole life.

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• PA

  @pattrell5257 · 1 year ago (edited)

  The shocking truth that she omitted is that the orange she was holding and the apple that she bit into are ultra-processed unless she got it off a farm or it was labelled that it came from a farm! Still, some farms are ultra-processed, too, because they use pesticides and/or add things to them that we would not agree with them adding....

• AN

  @angelsrosena · 1 year ago

  Never forget that the expensive/healthy food you’re buying today will free you from medical bills and health issues from tomorrow.

• KE

  @kenvalenti5414 · 10 months ago (edited)

  Big Pharma works with Big Food to make addictive food to make us ill, all subsidized by the government.<br>The U.S. government heavily subsidizes crops like corn (which is used to make high‑fructose corn syrup), soybeans (animal feed leading to cancer) but provides very little support for fruits and vegetables<br>Phase out all farm subsidies and modify SNAP to be SNAP for all redeemable solely for unprocessed plants (Fresh/frozen/canned/dried).

• JO

  @Jon-w4d · 1 month ago (edited)

  Why not use the words &quot;fake foods&quot; instead of ultra processed foods? I think it&apos;s more to the point.

• MS

  @MSTKAOS · 1 year ago

  Keep enjoying ultra processed food....its not that bad for health