Jokes aside, there's evidence that the more processed the food in your daily consumtion is, the more likely you're to get fat and other health issues. Our natural mechanisms to detect if you've had enough don't work as well on processed food.
Just in case someone takes this seriously.
While its almost certain that whole food diets are optimal, theres nothing inherent about food being processed that makes it unhealthy. Some people take anything to do with diet/fitness/wellness to stupid places like "Ugh! That protein bar is PROCESSED! These brownies are home made from whole ingredients, I dont polute my body." Whey protein powder is processed, multi vitamins are processed and greens powders are processed... Raw milk isnt processed... my lactose free dairy products are processed and thats best for everyone.
It's not literally any processing that's the problem. It's that what we generally call processed food is engineered to optimize for things other than the health of those who eat it: flavor, addictiveness, cheapness, etc. And all of those goals are so pervasive and so at odds with health that virtually anything we call "processed food" is terrible for us.
Processed unhealthy foods are generally viewed as the items that have been stripped down in to some degree and then reassembled with ingredients like sugar, preservatives, flavors, dyes, stabilizers, etc.
Many studies have shown that yes, indeed, there are processed foods that are inherently unhealthy. We don’t need to play with semantics of what “processed” means to split hairs in an effort to be right.
You have a study link? I'm interested in how they show causation. Because health conscious people will be more likely to eat healthier, and less likely to eat highly processed foods.
At first I was surprised that anybody even thinks some people may not understand this is a joke.
But then I remembered some people believe the Earth is flat... So yeah, it's probably important to point it up.
above all else, processed foods are designed to maximize profits.
I'm pretty sure that applies to organics too. It's just another marketing term
Reverse the perspective - organic food is something YOU were designed to eat.
Unprocessed food is food we concluded was okay after desperate people were forced to eat it long ago and didn't die.
Processed food is food we concluded was okay after desperate people were paid to eat it recently and didn't die.Unprocessed food is more exploitative and erases the suffering of the past. Processed food compensates people for their exploitation, and there's no erasure of the suffering it causes.
No, not really. All the food we eat has been carefully bred for centuries, which has changed food way faster than evolutionary timescales. For some reasons everyone still calls that “natural” though even though nature has nothing to do with it, it’s just human engineering.
Like peanuts!
I think the word organic gets over used a lot, like "try our organic strawberries", I've never heard of chemical strawberries so what's the deal?
Really? You've never had starburst or skittles?
Even organic is chemical
could it be this referred to the farming method they used?
Afaik, organic is related to how things are grown and processed. For example, you shouldn't use the peel from normal lemons as they are treated with fungicide wax that is not exactly healthy. If you buy organic lemons, you can use the peel. But I agree that the term is overused and missunderstood a lot, and blindly trusting that organic foods are healthy does not work
Mechanical strawberries are also not great for you
but would be a cool band name
I'm more of an inorganic strawberry person
They're much too crunchy imo. They really hurt my mouth and throat.
As I understand, it's a legal food term in the US. Can't write it onto your food there, unless you fulfill certain requirements in how it's produced.
With all the preservatives, you might live longer☠️
It's safer to preserve you in the ground.
Checkmate
What a great way of thinking about it.
Just like I wonder why Crispers bags are resealable.
