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It’s Time to End the Tyranny of Ultra-Processed Food (www.wired.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Haus@kbin.social to c/news@kbin.social

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Industrially processed pizzas, cereals, and convenience foods are responsible for a host of diseases. Policymakers and doctors need to lead the food fight.

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[–] blazera@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Processed is a useless word. You gonna get sick from the pre-chopped broccoli?

[–] RickRussell_CA@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To their credit, they say "ultra-processed" to capture this distinction.

[–] Silverseren@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They use another vague term with little to no meaningful distinction in order to avoid the actual problem, which in this case is overeating and, in general, is foods having too much sugar, salt, and others things added. Additives that are fine in moderation, but are way higher and outside the daily recommended value in these cases.

[–] FiskFisk33@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

It's a well defined term:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-processed_food

which they also take some time discussing in the beginning of the article.

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