BBC news Today - Could Processed Foods Be Harmful?

(Peter - Don't Fear the Fat ) #1

What a shock!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65754290

(Mark) #2

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

Well duh. Welcome to the show BBC news!

(Allie) #3

Well no sh!tā€¦ :rofl:

#4

It made me reading about reconstituted meatā€¦ Things are still not clear to me but well, no one can make me give up my sausages :smiley: They are way healthier than like, fruits from my own garden (no chemicals and stuff) according to my body. It doesnā€™t like sugar, you see.
Sausages are very different, of course. I am very pleased with simple supermarket ones too, I just read the label and choose accordingly. Many sausages have very proper ingredients and I couldnā€™t care less itā€™s processed, if I make meatballs, thatā€™s processed too, just by me.
But processed meat is just variety, a helping hand, it never can be a big part of my diet. It would feel weird and I would hate it.

(Peter - Don't Fear the Fat ) #5

So it turns out this news story was supporting the BBC1 TV programme this evening.
Iā€™m a big fan of the BBC but this programme was very poor and full of inaccuracies.
Some good points were let down by nonsense. Also they focused on one sweetener and one chemical in plastic food packaging.
Really lazy and limited reporting I thought.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #6

One certainly expects better of the BBC!

(Peter - Don't Fear the Fat ) #7

One interesting point came out. The UK accepts plastic toxicity levels in food 2000 times higher than Europeā€¦l think heard that right

(Jennifer M Worth) #8

Amateur thinking, but I didnā€™t realize until I had been eating keto for a few weeks that the food I was buying was ā€˜wholeā€™. UPF is going into the repertoire for sure.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #9

The standard layout of supermarkets in my area is to put the real food around the edges, and the processed stuff in the aisles. Since starting keto, I only have to enter an aisle to pick up coffee, tea, pork rinds, and paper goods.

(Allie) #10

Not anymore sadly, theyā€™re no longer the authority they once were.

(Bob M) #11

Chocolate, hot sauce, condiments such as mustard, olives and pickles, sparkling water, soy sauce, are other reasons I go down the middle isles. But most of the good stuff in US stores is on the outside ā€œringā€ of the store.

As for ā€œprocessed foodā€, Iā€™m hesitant to use this term. Often, sausage is considered to be a processed food, but I think one could live quite nicely off sausage made from fresh meat.

(Peter - Don't Fear the Fat ) #12

OOoo I love a good sausage ā€¦ Not many are free from things I avoid though. And bacon! why do the add sugar? :man_shrugging:

(KM) #13

The words I keep in my mind are, ā€œnot industrial foodā€. I know that isnā€™t a technical term, but to me it means food my great grandma circa 1850 would have had eaten or cooked with, that are low or no carb. To be honest Iā€™m not entirely sure the low-carb part is necessary if you havenā€™t been exposed to all the industrial foods, additives, oils and concentrated carbs, but since we all have, I include that caveat.