Experts warn processed foods pose major health risk to kids

Experts warn that the biggest threat to children's health may be the food they consume, with processed foods making up 70% of the American food supply, according to a 2019 study.
Childhood obesity has tripled since the 1970s, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with one in five children overweight or obese, according to National Institutes of Health (NIH) data.

[@huddleston1878]

Experts warn? Huh....this was known 30+ yrs ago

[@joconnell8145]

Right???

[@J-ROD-s1u]

Yet fast food restaurants stay busy lol

[@tmoni148]

Let’s make healthy food affordable again!

[@kingeggo]

True, healthy food is pricey, but the real issue is underpaid workers picking our crops. Deporting them, like Trump wanted, won’t lower prices-it’ll make them worse

[@mrbobo86]

Its the parents fault

[@kingeggo]

Who wrote this? This is super misleading, It exaggerates stats, oversimplifies nutrition, and fearmongers about processed food. Even a natural banana has more than five ingredients if you break it down scientifically (contains over 50 identifiable compounds)So, by the logic of "more than five ingredients = bad," even a banana would be considered "Frankenfood"-which is clearly ridiculous. AND, processing can be as simple as baking bread or toasting-it’s not inherently bad. The issue isn’t processing itself but poor dietary balance. Nutrition is complex, and this kind of messaging doesn’t help.

[@kingeggo]

Those so-called """experts"""" you had on sounded more like grifters pushing fear instead of real nutrition science, do better y'all

[@gm7304]

if you can't stop eating junk food try wearing a catcher mask over your face. Now PLAY BALL!⚾

[@User-54631]

Isn’t cooking food processing it?

[@kingeggo]

Yes, exactly!!!!! Cooking IS processing-baking, toasting, or even chopping food changes it. They're just fearmongering. The real issue isn’t processing itself but poor dietary balance and junk food loaded with sugar, salt, and additives

[@lockup6104]

@@User-54631 it’s not the same processing has added ingredients to preserve either by a liquid or powder. It’s not natural for human consumption

[@lockup6104]

MAHA time for change health over profits. Get the fda out of corporate pockets 🇺🇸

[@kingeggo]

This is oversimplified and just fearmongering. The real issue isn’t just the FDA-it’s poor dietary choices, education, and access to healthy food. Not all processed foods are bad, and regulation helps keep food SAFE. Blaming ‘corporate control’ ignores the bigger picture 🙄🙄🙄

[@lockup6104]

@ that’s were you are wrong the low class do not have choices they can not budget for organic like most of us. For many it’s not a choice to not eat processed foods and big corporations know this and continue to add seed oils and colored dyes and high fructose corn syrups cellulose to most products. You need to dig deeper they pray on the less fortunate and in the end the tax payers pay for it through higher med insurance cost from people and children that become sick with no insurance. Look outside the box this started in 1993 and is now massive. It’s not fear mongering read the ingredients and understand them. This is why other countries do not have the same ingredients as US made products they know and Americans have to much faith that entities like the FDA would do there jobs and put healthy ingredients and not toxic ingredients. 🇺🇸

[@AubrieTaylorChan]

Maybe make groceries cheaper in the valley

[@Charmywoo]

Went to buy vitamins for the kids- full of fake coloring made from tartrazine and other delights.

[@Glamgrlsf]

Yup and our government doesn’t care at all.

[@johnbehneman1546]

RFK 2025.

[@kingeggo]

RFK has zero medical credentials-he’s an anti-vax conspiracy theorist nutso lunatic, NOT a health expert. Putting him as health secretary wouldn’t fix anything

[@donnasloane9031]

American cheeze is a processed " thing"...stop now!...... only eat REAL cheeze....check out the ingredients of all foods!

[@aliviar9711]

Not just to kids!

[@gm7304]

Oh My Goodness I'm going on 5 years whole foods. I weigh 110 lbs 5"4 and buns of steel at 59

[@LDJ-r8e]

Noooooooooop. 😳

[@LingLing-ou6nt]

All of a sudden the news is covering this......

[@lockup6104]

@@LingLing-ou6nt Many of the last administration are on the take and they chose to look the other way on most issues.

[@jaimegutierrez5520]

We know for years.

[@kingeggo]

We know for years? Know what? Before the FDA, food was dangerous-toxic preservatives, rotten meat, even sawdust in bread. The FDA exists because people were dying from unregulated food, Romanticizing the past ignores how far we’ve come in making food safer

[@kristianwilliams7415]

Something the far left should have been talking about every week for decades. Your beliefs and decisions have consequences.

[@kingeggo]

Healthy food access isn’t a partisan issue-it affects everyone. The right ONLY started talking about this less than a year ago, so blaming the ""far left"" is just hypocrisy. Plus, much of the outrage from the right wing isn’t real science-it’s just fearmongering pushed by grifters 🙄🙄🙄

[@anonymityismyname]

Why would we help people get healthy through diet? Keeping people sick creates jobs.

[@kingeggo]

What are you even talking about?????

[@Rapture-Farms]

Experts 😂😂😂. Whare were ye before trump took power...hiding.....go back in your hole 😂😂😂

[@kingeggo]

This is just nonsense. Nutrition experts have been around long before Trump and will be around long after-public health isn’t political. Also, RFK is not a health expert; he’s an anti-vax conspiracy theorist with ZERO medical credentials. Let’s focus on real science, not political drama 🙄

[@johnbehneman1546]

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

[@robertlee810]

Just electing right president and right secretary makes $hit load of different.

[@kingeggo]

Leadership matters, but food and health issues need real policies, not just a new president. And RFK? He’s a nutso anti-vax conspiracy theorist with NO medical credentials