'Ultra-processed' products now half of all UK family food purchases

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(Ben) #1

Oh dear

(3c6f21097d06511a9e23) #2

Unfortunately many are unaware, misinformed and plain lazy.
Healthy eating as we know takes a little more effort for the better return of nutrients, taste and understanding of what we eat and what to avoid.
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#3

Right! Iā€™m happy to see an article like this, the world needs to be absolutely SWAMPED with material like this that points to the real problem. I call what I see in grocery stores, cafeterias, vending machines and restaurants ā€“ Lab created crap. Manufactured and marketed by idiots under the premise that if it tastes good people will buy tons of it (and, they do). Zero nutrition ā€œimprovedā€ with more lab created crap (synthetic ā€œnutrientsā€ that the human body cannot absorb let alone use) made with oils I would not give to an enemy, loaded up to the max with preservatives, compounds to ā€˜correctā€™ (read - make more marketable) color, texture, flavor. With labeling that carefully works around telling the truth which is ā€œWe created this substitute food with the firm intention that you will buy it and shovel it down for the rest of your life, thereby producing profit for our shareholders and increasing our market share.ā€
Our local grocersā€™ have completely sacrificed our collective health for the health of their bottom line. ā€œFood Distributorsā€ are like drug dealers and used car salesmen.
Meanwhile real farmers canā€™t keep their farms and ā€œdoctorsā€ keep pushing pills like statins, diabetes meds, BP meds, on and on. Disease and obesity have exploded. Is anyone really surprised?

(3c6f21097d06511a9e23) #4

No, not surprised here. I realised this quite some years ago. But Iā€™m still disappointed that so many people either fail to realise the fact or choose to ignore them because itā€™s easier to.
Then I sometimes think, am I being paranoid.
No, Iā€™m not surprised.
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(Duncan Kerridge) #5

I want to know how they got a photo of my dining table from 18 months ago, thereā€™s nothing there I wouldnā€™t have eaten. Scary.

#6

Funny!, and not funnyā€¦Iā€™ve been there, I canā€™t believe what a complete sucker I was!

(Allie) #7

Itā€™s scary seeing the contents of some shopping trolleys. Even when people clearly seem to think theyā€™re doing the best for their healthā€¦

(Melis Jansen ) #8

I was eating stuff like that not long ago. I was losing weight from doing intermittent fasting and walking but I was eating a lot of junk food too. Almost every day I was eating a bag of Gummy Bears and an 80% dark chocolate bar.

I was reading a lot of intermittent fasting discussions on Reddit and a lot of people were doing keto also. So I looked into that and the more I read about it the more sense it made. I started eating more keto food and less sugar. I gradually became more and more keto through the month of January. now I am totally Keto and Iā€™m combining it with intermittent fasting. I havenā€™t been weighing myself but I can fit into clothes I could not zip up at the beginning of January.