How harmful can ultra-processed foods be for us? - BBC News

The impact of ultra-processed foods like crisps, bread and cereals is a "ticking timebomb" to our health, a leading scientist has said.
The BBC’s Panorama programme has been investigating the impact of ultra-processed foods with the help of identical twins on very different diets.
The effect on their health was clear after just two weeks.
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[@SamPathan_69]

This should be required viewing for everyone, The food industry needs to be put in the spotlight like tobacco was.

[@MandolinGuy530]

Absolutely, I couldn't agree more.

[@CHMichael]

Just one more - "Super size me" has been watched by millions and fast food is still making record profits.

[@MandolinGuy530]

@@CHMichael Yup, I saw that back when I was a teenager, and there was a follow up he did that I haven't watched. I think the follow up was to do with fried chicken.

[@winstoningram99]

I watched it. It was biased garbage. Typical BBC. I'd advise people don't watch it.

[@winstoningram99]

​@@CHMichael Yeah, because it tastes amazing

[@3rdmm]

All the time saved by eating "fast food", turns out to be lost by a shortened lifespan.

[@aliciamorris5054]

Knowledge is power

[@beyondfossil]

Those fast foods move us closer to our graves faster

[@Depresseddonut17]

Great point. Fast food makes you live fast in a very bad way

[@weird-guy]

The problem is not shortened life span,the problem is that they have lowest quality of life and become a burden for the national health. Although I don’t know if they dying earlier is still cheaper that living for economy. With the way things are going,I doubt many people dream of living until 100 years old like before

[@callicordova4066]

So true, plus the fewer years will be ones where you won't feel well, might have to deal with diabetes, etc.

[@dirkd7510]

I am an American that completely cut Processed foods from my diet over 2 years now. I have been able to lose over 135lbs - 9.64 stone in 27 months. I went from 314lbs - 22.42 stone to 174lbs 12.42 stone. 80% to 90% of the food I now purchase is from the fresh produce department. I also walk at least 2 hours every day. My Doctor informed me I have done what only 1% of the American population can do. I call it box food. Stop eating box food.

[@jeffg4686]

I eat mostly organic now, and no junk. Makes a big difference. Now - are you in the 3% that doesn't watch television?

[@NannyOggins]

Well done, you’re a fine example, so glad you’re healthy again.

[@alk6225]

that´t terrific....pure willpower

[@MackmastertjeG]

Thanks

[@beepboopbeepp]

How do you even do this? Peetty much everything is processed

[@mochtegerndane7097]

It is a total tragedy, that cooking has been taken off the school curriculum in many countries. When I was in 5th grade, many years ago, the boys in my class were among the first to choose between cooking and (the traditional) woodwork. We all chose cooking - and I became quite good at it. Today, I NEVER buy processed foods - I cook from the bottom up. And - if you know, what you are doing, you can make a great, and cheap, dinner in 12 minutes. Oh - and tell your sons, that being a good cook is one of the best pickup moves around.

[@tastypymp1287]

They can learn it at home. Why do you expect the school to solve everything?

[@globalist1990]

@@tastypymp1287 if only at the very least they wouldn't serve this crap food in schools it would be a huge advancement. They're actually letting kids down and ensuring their disadvantage vs a privileged brat going to a private school with meals offering proper nutrition.

[@tastypymp1287]

@@globalist1990 You get what you pay for.

[@mochtegerndane7097]

@@tastypymp1287 It is not just a matter of money: My kids went to a private school, where breakfast and lunch were served. Porridge and berries is cheap, healthy and nutritional. (And it is only half the price of the Kellogs sugary shit). Why schools should get involved? Easy. There has been an incredible loss of knowledge when women started working. (I am NOT saying that cooking is a womans job). Many recipes are forgotten. Today not many people know, what is in season. And they would not know how to deal with root veggies f.i. But yes - people also have a responsability to cook with their kids. My Kids must have been two-three years old, when they started "helping", when I baked bread or buns.

[@tastypymp1287]

@@mochtegerndane7097 Complete and utter BS. No knowledge has been lost. In fact due to the digital age, more knowledge is captured and shared than ever before. Nothing is out of reach to the average person. This is not about ignorance, this is about lifestyle. People know what is healthy and what is not, but some don't care and there's nothing you can do about that.

[@LmfaoBanana]

It shouldn't be controversial to want healthy, natural food. We should cater to our health and lives above all else.

[@mlplpslpscool5125]

Yeah but it can be hard for some people to be healthy and still be able to work we have more busy lives now so that could be why

[@kayleigh3648]

Yet the majority of Americans STILL will eat garbage and got give af. And when they see ppl like us who are thin with no health issues, they cry about how we are so lucky with our good genetics, and how unlucky they are for theirs 🙄

[@capablanc]

The fact is we are a capitalist society, and so we cater to corporations and their profits over human life.

[@creepcraddle]

@@capablancYupp profit over people babyy

[@martinebon4333]

Ive worked in the NHS for about a decade and the healthcare system is focused in curing diseases and not prevention and health promotion. The food industry is also to blame in supermarkets like ASDA, TESCO, Sainsburys have a lot of cheap ultraprocessed food. In a cost of living crisis, the common man will go for the cheap unhealthy options. The poorer your family is the higher likelihood of obesity and chronic medical conditions.

[@Jen-Yueh_Hu]

Cheap does not mean unhealthy. The problem is that food industries add things to make food more appealing. eg colourants, emulsifiers, etc. Things to make the food smell/look better or give it a "better" texture.

[@briaredpath9386]

@@Jen-Yueh_Hu Buckwheat is cheap and most vegetables,laziness and lack of interest in health is a very real problem.

[@LulaJake]

Yet the NHS continues to promote seed oils as healthy. Guess what is in every ultra processed food?

[@winstoningram99]

There is no blame. People like eating delicious garbage. That's fine. Let's not be food Nazis

[@reasonerenlightened2456]

is there a machine that can take food and break it down and extract all molecules by type? instead of eating tomatoes or apples we can just ingest packaged molecules. It will be healthy and this video will be unnecessary.

[@jaker3151]

4:49 Food manufacturers don't care about people's health. It's all about making as much profit as possible. The longer a product can stay on the shelf, with the use of additives and preservatives etc, the more money they can make. Just because something passes current regulations it doesn't mean it's healthy. Also in the West many people have lost the ability to cook at home from scratch. Parents and schools no longer pass on the necessary skills to children. Whereas in many Asian countries cooking at home from scratch is still a thing and people there are much healthier for it.

[@UnconditionalHappiness]

You're speaking my language 👍

[@mica4977]

I can agree with making more health responsible companies however it does also come down to personal choice at a certain point. For example I should be allowed to make a doze cupcakes with a buuunch of butter, sugar & frosting so they'll taste great but it's up to every individual in my household to limit how many of them they eat & how fast/soon they eat another. It's fine that they're extra fatty/sugary if the person eating them only plans to have one per weekend while otherwise eating healthy during the week. To some degree I would also be happy with bakers & some companies having the freedom to make reeeally good tasting treats (that aren't the healthiest) knowing I'll aim to make it a rare treat as apposed to a daily snack.

[@user-ie9bi9uz8o]

A healthy tip I'd share is to learn how to make some of the foods you might regularly like to eat, such as bread, almond/nut milk, or even peanut butter, yourself. It's actually not that hard to make many foods from scratch, and by using raw ingredients (preferably organic) you can skip all the additives and junk you normally get when buying pre-made items off the shelf and potentially save a decent amount of cash too.

[@Django0324]

Any useful channels you've found?

[@user-ie9bi9uz8o]

@@Django0324 Personally, no one in particular, just usually like to compare videos or recipes on Google from multiple sources in order to get ideas of how something can be made. Someone else here my have a good specific source to suggest though.

[@ald1144]

It took me a couple tries at bread making, but it's actually ridiculously easy. Now I do it every weekend, to have bread for the week.

[@dirkd7510]

I have removed all flour and from my diet.

[@faith5401]

​@@dirkd7510 Me too. Flour caused me very bad enzyma. I eat more plant based diet, much better skin n digestive system improved a lot. No meat.

[@catherinelw9365]

My parents were from the Depression-era generation. Growing up in the 60's and 70's, we grew all our own organic fruits and vegetables, canned everything for winter, made everything from scratch, bought all our milk, sausage, cheese and eggs from local farmers. Now, people can't even make a pie crust or put flour, baking soda and salt together for cakes or pancakes without using some kind of pre-mixed crap with additives. Cooking and canning has become a lost art.

[@komiss]

Is a cake or pancake a kind of processed food, right? :)

[@GaryEveritt]

​@@komissIt wouldn't be ultra processed though

[@Hana9916]

@@komiss Processing is fine. People (hominids, really), have been cooking, salting, drying, mashing - processing - food for hundreds of thousands of years. Ultraprocessing is completely different

[@mg4361]

​@@komissThe issue is who is doing the processing and why. Is it a company, looking to maximize turnover and profit or you (or a loved one), looking to feed your family and yourself with something tasty and healthy. This will determine how exactly you process your food and what you put into it.

[@kawazaki23]

I would love to drink organic milk form cow inshallah one day I can become dairy farmer,,,and pro footballer inshallah

[@trevor2001]

My Celiac and diabetes forced me to give up all processed foods. Although whole foods are more expensive, I’ve lost weight, no alcohol, and my blood sugar stays around 120-130 now.

[@AnonymousanonymousA]

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[@mytravls]

My dad at 72 after 11 years of diabetes is now a pre diabetic due to diet change and Ayurvedic meds. Only now enlarged prostrate due to age.

[@xkancho]

do you use tobacco products?

[@VictorFernandes-q9o]

130 is quite high. I work the opposite way. I prefer prevention of disease. I prevent so i never have the disease. You, just like most people only start caring after it’s too late. We only have one body for the rest of our life, people should care for it.

[@davidbuckland5976]

The argument about whole foods being more expensive than ultra processed foods is broadly correct. However, it doesn't negate any positive changes you can make, even small. Anything in the right direction is an improvement. An apple is cheaper than a kit kat.

[@miken1463]

It’s not.

[@jeanpaultongeren125]

@@miken1463 it is kitkat 3 pack is 3 euro's. One apple is 50 cent, a bag full up apples is around 2,50 euro

[@jeanpaultongeren125]

@@miken1463 1,5kg apples = 2,50 euro's

[@pingu3984]

@@miken1463 Even here. In the UK, one apple is absolutely cheaper than 1 kitkat

[@kasiapetruk6730]

It doesn’t resonate with me that much that non processed is that much more expensive. Buying ready meals regularly each for lets say 3-6 pounds is expensive. For 6 pounds I can get some simple ingredients for home cooked meal that would last longer than one serving of that processed meal. Bag of regular simple oats is cheaper than branded flavored cereals. When I buy at Aldi and stick to staples for my home made stews the bill is always very affordable, it is when I switch to more of “comfort food”, packed food that I wanted to try the bill goes noticeably higher.

[@tonysherwood9619]

Jamie Oliver tried to get school dinners nutritious (like we used to have) but the school children were already addicted to UPF!

[@_unknown_channel_]

If you want to live without ultra-processed foods , you shall cook meals with using fresh food by yourself and eat them . Cooking methods should be avoided frying and limited to boiling , baking , and steaming as much as possible . If you have wealth and property enough like someone , you can do it with using other people .

[@tonysherwood9619]

@@_unknown_channel_ I'm eating my streamed asparagus at the moment!

[@tonysherwood9619]

@@DevonPixie1991 Americanised since reaganomics applied by thatcher - fed property before people, fill your boots, take your pizza to your bedroom, we'll holiday on other peoples misery, just take this medication for the rest of your life or why bother working because there enough migrants to lick your boots and care for you...and work from home pressing buttons so you are not an eco-sinner! What a fantastic future! By the way have you had the co-vaccination?

[@bontempo1271]

@@_unknown_channel_ Question, what is wrong with frying if you don't use oil ? Heat is heat no ?

[@capablanc]

​@bontempo1271 frying lightly in a small amount of extra virgin olive oil is totally fine and heart healthy. Unhealthy fried foods typically come from excessive amounts of hydrogenated vegetable oil high in trans fats, or saturated fats in things like butter. I fry most of my meals in about 10-15ml of extra virgin olive oil (about 120 calories worth), or just in a small amount of water with the lid on to steam. Extra virgin olive oil is a staple in a Mediterranean diet which is typically very healthy. Studies have shown that frying in a small amount of extra virgin olive oil can actually be healthier than boiling because of the heart benefits, but also because boiling veg draws out nutrients that are wasted. The most important thing is calorie counting the oil though because even healthy fat is the most calorie dense food type, and people tend to absolutely SLATHER their frying pan in it, adding something stupid like 500 calories alone. Boiling veg is utterly miserable and honestly no way to live in my humble opinion. Completely bland and unless you hate yourself and hate food, probably not a sustainable diet to maintain for most people. It's important to eat healthy but it's also important to enjoy your food to lessen cravings for processed junk. You can have boiled veg every day for dinner but I know at least for me, I'd be far more inclined to get a burger at a givenn opportunity knowing the terror that awaits me at dinner time. Either way I implore you to research properly with respected sources, not reddit or youtube comments, and not fad diets.

[@tgoddard1988]

I’m actually really upset that I can’t have kids (naturally), because I’ve always been against things like chicken nuggets, chips and pot noodles for kids. I’ve seen so many parents feeding these kinds of things to kids and saying crap like “that’s all they’ll eat” or “I’ve tried giving them healthier food and they won’t have it”, but the funny thing is, kids aren’t born knowing what pot noodle is or chicken nuggets, someone has had to show them!

[@NettiGaming]

100%

[@juliawigger9796]

It's because the processed food is packed with sugar. I have to make my own bread as I find commercial bread so sweet.

[@EmyN]

Ikr? Of course your kid doesn't like vegetables lol

[@blesseddivaangel]

You are right. We are responsible for training our kids what to eat. My daughter doesn't eat or like nuggets, fish fingers, chips, pizza or anything like that because we never offered it to her when she was young. Now she's 9, has never ever eaten McDonalds and happily eats veggies, fruits including avocado, olives, bell peppers, salmon. We also didn't give her much of sweet foods and now she's not really into cake and puddings. The only "junk" she gets to eat is sausages and pancakes on her birthday and Christmas cause you gotta indulge sometimes lol

[@sarahsnowe]

So true. Mostly they'll eat what their parents eat. Never did see a kid deliberately starve himself or herself to death. And when I've travelled in poor countries, I've noticed that the kids are definitely not fussy. They'll eat almost anything. They're hungry. When I was bringing my kid up and she didn't like what I'd cooked (a fairly rare occurrence), I'd say, "Well, that's what there is, except you can have bread and cheese and fruit." Now that she's grown up she's a very eclectic eater and cooks real food for her own kids. As the twig is bent . . . .

[@kamenidriss]

Dont processed food tend to be cheaper than fresh whole foods though? How are we going to address that during the current affordability crisis?

[@user-js4sb4qq2h]

Community and school gardens, potted vegetables and micro greens at home are solutions growning everywhere. Farmers markets, CSA, too.

[@user-bi8ko7kc6h]

⁠​⁠@@user-js4sb4qq2h We do have farmer markets but the price isn’t cheap as well. Potted veg, school gardens and community gardens are not going to produce enough vegetables. And you can’t even have bigger production at home e.g the whole garden because it’s illegal. Once above a certain amount of production you will need to info the gov.

[@deepchaudhary3330]

Come to south Asia it's affordable

[@brokenalgorithms4741]

Well processed foods are cheaper to produce. So add a tax to processed foods and increase the processed foods to the price of whole foods. Don't forget that farm workers are underpaid as well.

[@optimisticoutreach1236]

Cheaper than medical bills...

[@evan8463]

I read science research paper on this a year or two ago and it was interesting. Fascinating to see it in video form as well, especially in a non-US context because their "ultra processed food" is nothing compared to the level of processing we have here

[@hussainsajid4929]

I noticed how the diets had matching calories but one of them gained weight but the other one lost weight. Either the ultra processed food companies are lying about the nutrient information or ultra processed foods are easy to eat therefor they require minimal energy to consume. It seems that to lose weight, it's not as simple as eating less and burning more

[@andrewbrown5300]

I’d imagine it’ll be something to do with eating the processed foods makes you generally not feel full for longer and the calories are usually more dense then a unprocessed version

[@GeXExtremist]

More likely the ultra processed foods have higher carbs = higher insulin and therefore the storing of fat, also the higher sodium content would of meant higher water weight

[@Tao_Tology]

Foods loaded with sugar, especially if they are also moderate/high carbs, stop your body from using your existing fuel stores (fat cells).

[@ster2600]

Weight loss and gain isn't just about calories - another lie we've been told about our diets

[@orange25i]

I noticed this also. Very weird/intersting. I assume that i cannot be, that one of the twins led a completly different lifestyle than the other (one only sleeping in for two weeks, while the other doing hardcore fitness training). That of course would cast a highly suspicous light on the study. On the other hand I can't belive, that your train of thought of "ultra processed foods are easy to eat therefor they require minimal energy to consume" could be the reason either. That would mean that the process of eating - e.g. lifting the fork - would differ so siginficantly from the other method of eating (other fork?) that there would be weight difference of +1kg after two weeks!

[@DaveCS103]

We need to take down these horrible practices that food industries use! Healthy food should be a right not a luxury.

[@creepcraddle]

I agree. Unfortunately it's gonna be a long hard battle because there is so much money and lobbying in these big corporations and too many people are profiting off feeding us poison. Money is power

[@DomCobb1]

Plant based meat and non-natural meat products are ultra processed foods btw... Natural meat is still healthier

[@christopherhitchens163]

Beef is a category A carcinogen

[@tonysherwood9619]

Tastes like cardboard - I'd rather have mushrooms. I cannot get over the shape and colour - unappetising muck!

[@pm8401]

How about neither.

[@curiositycloset2359]

@@pm8401 how about a balanced diet?

[@magesalmanac6424]

You can have a balanced diet without meat. There are other ways to get the same nutrients. How about expanding your mindset?

[@boopdoop2251]

The only problem I have with this is equating not knowing what a long word in an ingredients list means with that ingredient being unhealthy. “Sodium bicarbonate” is a long couple of words for an ingredient name, so it must be bad right? Nope, it’s just baking soda. Read the ingredients, absolutely, but just because you don’t recognize something doesn’t automatically make it unnatural and bad.

[@sarahsnowe]

If you can't buy that ingredient separately in the shop, don't buy a product that contains that ingredient. You can buy sodium bicarbonate, but you can't buy calcium propionate or propylene glycol or hundreds of other polysyllabic additives.

[@Yoni123]

Doesn't mean its bad for you​@@sarahsnowe

[@Bigboss-xe6lm]

Pretty sure that most ingredients used today are harmful in some way.

[@alexfrenchez]

Saying making food from scratch is expensive than fast food is the biggest laziest crap I've heard

[@Bigboss-xe6lm]

I agree. All excuses. But most people work alot and in stressful jobs. When they get home they are mentaly exhausted. We need to change the allowed ingreedients in our food. The industry needs to be very controlled. They are like little satans running around trying to find the next bad thing to profit on

[@alexfrenchez]

@@Bigboss-xe6lm lmao. I commented that when I was jobless and straight after school. Now I have a job I completely understand why people say 'fuj it' and get a takeaway.

[@vedantkale1163]

They should have shown the actual before and after test results for the lipids, sugar etc. This would have given the study more weight. Since, just saying all those things increased usually makes people seriously sceptical due to the vagueness of it. Scientific studies and results should be very accurate.

[@AlbertonBeastmaster]

They did say that they only had access to early pre-peer review data.

[@Tao_Tology]

Let's not be naive, here. A diet of healthy, _real_ food is not going to have a worse effect that a highly processed 'food' diet will

[@ster2600]

It's not a scientific study at all, no one is saying that it is

[@wojtek1582]

Important is that such difference was while their diets were crafted to have the same amount of fiber. In real life, if you eat ultra processed foods instead of whole foods (especially plant ones), your fiber intake will be much, much lower, so the difference will be even worse.

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[@jeonlyxoxo]

We're all well aware of the issues with ultra-processed food. At some point in our lives, we've all heard about it. The problem is, many can't afford to prepare wholesome meals. Ultra-processed food is simply cheaper, while some folks are already addicted to the chemicals within these foods. Others, they simply couldn't care less.

[@magesalmanac6424]

Cheaper for a little while, more expensive in the long run when it comes to medical costs. Also, if people could resist the convenience factor and do meal prep at home, it can be cheaper. Buy in bulk, Cook in bulk, freeze the rest, it’s easy.

[@gibbyjones1040]

that is a lie to rationalize your junk diet. whole foods are cheaper. you're just lazy

[@gennaterra]

@@magesalmanac6424 Totally agree... cabbage costs NOTHING compared to process food... it's just not "cool food" Once can argue organic not being affordable, but a good amount of whole foods are affordable

[@leploeo7145]

Thats not true, at least here in france. I never eat processes foods, and when i go to the groceries with friends, i am always the one who pays the least. Processes food actually costs a lot

[@parziiich]

Thats a big myth. Healthy food can be cheaper than processed one.

[@therealist2000]

You will feel terrible at first when quitting sugar and junk food but you definitley feel amazing afterwards. No more processed foods for me, only real foods with real ingredients!

[@jalb1976]

German bread: Wheat, Flour and Water. Not every European gets brainwashed easily by junk bread.

[@NettiGaming]

I started Intermittent fasting. And it forced me to be careful with my food choices in my eating window. Made me realise what food was spiking my blood sugar. Since learning this ive lost 15kg what we need is food education. Imagine what we could do if everyone wore a continuous glucose monitor.

[@r.brooks5287]

I'm OMAD, mainly because it makes it so much easier to eat healthy, in prep time, money, and in what I genuinely crave. When I have meals three times a day I get so picky and weirdly also snack on bad choices.

[@NettiGaming]

@@r.brooks5287 it works doesn't it x

[@KK-rj7ij]

The problem is, if both parents need to work full time, who is going to cook for the children at home? They might start cooking themselves once they are 16 but by then the damage is done.

[@someernie6179]

That’s why working from home is good for all of us!

[@danceportal06]

Eating healthy and at home is not as expensive as I thought. I bought 3 packets of garden salad for $1.88 each at Walmart and it lasted 4-5 days for 2 of us to eat for lunch. Going to a restaurant once and ordering a salad is easily around $10. I feel like you can find healthy food and make it work for your family if you want-it just takes more effort putting it together versus just opening a lid or a box. I’m not healthy by any means-this video was very motivational. I just noticed the few times I’ve tried to eat healthier that it wasn’t as impossible or expensive as I imagined…

[@Ryan-wx1bi]

Those pre packaged garden salads usually aren't that great either. They tend to use ice Berg lettuce which has little to no nutrients.

[@Jess-T]

4-5 days is a crazy amount of time our salads in the UK last a couple of days if you're lucky, wondering what yours was sprayed with.

[@inuhundchien6041]

Don't bother with the nay sayers, you did great trying to control your health.

[@ZCBeats1]

Just buy steak bro lol

[@RandomMetalChick000]

So you only had 1 meal per day and it was just a prepackaged salad? That's not healthy at all, and would be considered starving if a child had to live off salad. Children need a well rounded diet, that includes animal protein, healthy fats, some carbs, and fiber. A lettuce salad is basically all water soluble fiber. Not very nutritional for a developing human.

[@ewaijulka]

In many cases the root cause of this ill-health epidemic is 1) convenience and 2) economic factors. I don't believe most people on the ultra-processed diet do so because they choose to but because that's all they can afford money and time-wise. Maybe the exception can be kids born into such struggling households. If we make healthy eating easier and more importantly convenient - I mean what's easier to eat when on a bus rushing to work or school, packaged snacks or eggs/salad/any balanced meal? - then we will see nation/global-wide improvements.

[@mannaporanna2678]

Somehow the problem is the biggest in the most developed and the wealthiest countries

[@averyremillard7968]

i think those are definitely part of the problem, but food addiction is also very real and harmful. the system is rigged, but it's also okay to call out individuals for their actions.

[@Amelie7477]

And/or we could reduce working hours, then people would have time to get in touch with the foods they eat. And with friends and have time to sleep 7 to 9 hours.

[@chestersnap]

There are so many things where you don't see effects until after 4-8 weeks, too. I imagine effects are much worse at that point

[@gloriarosario5687]

It is an extremely frightening path that we are heading to as a society due to the food industry. More awareness is needed in the school systems. Parents need to be aware of what they feed their children.

[@Oscar-lu4ot]

Convenience is a killer.

[@GreenGivesMeJoy]

This needs to be shared with more people. Governments need to take action instead of putting bandaids on the issues. Prevent the friggin disease before it starts. Target schools and daycare centers, young mothers and so forth. Not enough work is being done on prevention

[@Bigboss-xe6lm]

Sadly its a big global industry of psychopaths and greedy aholes. And they also have money stacked in big pharma. And lobbying themselfs inside politicians. They are like a virus to the global health body.

[@fh854]

Comments acting like people didn’t used to smoke and drink like crazy…

[@andyjohnson3790]

Is there an actual full version of this BBC episode?

[@xristinarose2409]

Can you blame us tho? Where both parents have to work, who has time left for food shopping, cooking and cleaning when you can just take away and throw away when finished?

[@nemojzezat]

If you actually cared, you’d change the laws and these ingredients would be off the shelves and fast food chains. But money makes the world go round..

[@Christmas-j7k]

Tell that to America

[@rafski-travels-1984]

So they’ve finally addressed this after a few decades ? Reminds me of the cigarette industry finally coming around and admitting it’s bad for us after several decades. The thing is Anglophone countries especially, don’t place importance on food. So many people have been tricked and just pondered on with ignorance.

[@CHMichael]

That info is out there at least since "super size me" 99% of people watching this will go right back by lunch.

[@winstoningram99]

Don't like it, don't buy it. Nobody thinks it's healthy. We just like delicious junk from time to time

[@queball685]

Who doesn't know how bad fast food is? We've known for decades lol

[@reasonerenlightened2456]

Why don't they break down each food to its most useful molecules and chemicals that the body needs , then extract them and package them by type of molecule and finally sell it as something we can consume instead of tomatoes, lattice, potatoes, vegetables , fruits, milk butter, coffee, sugar, salt etc.? It eliminates the necessity for all those additional chemicals like stabilisers, coloring, emulsifies, etc.

[@james.telfer]

​@@reasonerenlightened2456 because it would be easier and cheaper just to eat the correct food? You can't just extract specific compounds by filtration, so you're looking at some kind of process which will separate them, possibly causing unwanted by-products. What are you going to do with the leftover constituents? What's the problem with just eating a healthy diet?

[@circa1890]

It's not food or nourishment. It's entertainment.. I'll have a small processed snack once/month or so but no more than that - makes me feel ill if I eat anything more.

[@Gngrcpl]

I’m an American. I cut out all processed food meat and dairy a year ago. I’ve lost 90 pounds and feel better than I’ve ever felt. It’s really hard to find restaurants that don’t have processed oils or meat and dairy. Easier in the larger cities. But it is possible.

[@MindinViolet]

While I agree that ultra-processed foods are a health concern, this is a very small sample size. You need more than two people to provide convincing evidence.

[@leonagnew895]

I know some people are very busy, but it only takes around 15 minutes to make a healthy stir fry or a vege omelette. I work night shift and still have time to eat well.

[@muttersmenu2422]

Terrific and very informative video. In Australia we have the same issue with junk/crap food. I trying to cut processed food out of the diet but it is not always easy. Label reading takes time and some knowledge. Keep up the work.

[@sarahsnowe]

If it has a label listing more than three ingredients or ingredients you can't buy at a supermarket, don't buy it. Best to buy real food with no labels at all.

[@imhere8380]

Mate, it is easy. 5 daily rules...5 vege/fruits. wraps, seafood.

[@kjs4154]

When it comes to label reading the products with very few ingredients tend to be the healthier option, if you pick up a item that has about 20 different ingredients those are the ones you shouldn't be consuming

[@roxsana8653]

There is an app. Yuka

[@ddrlbhski6438]

Do people really require a study to know that processed food is bad for them?

[@pollypurree1834]

Alot do

[@summerruby201]

I cook the meals my family eats because I grew up eating cooked meals, although what I make is a bit more nutritious. We eat out only a few times a year and I limit the amount of junk my kids eat at home. The results speak for themselves: this past week ALL the children that live in our apartment complex was sick. All except my daughters. My best friend who lives across the street from me, her 11 year old daughter is way above her weight class, and she might now have diabetes. I have tried for 12 years to convince my friend to change the way she and her kids eat, but she is convinced that her children won't eat healthy. Here in America, so many people have it in there heads that healthier foods are expensive, yet, the prices of fast food have drastically increased. And I always see long lines at the local McDonald's in my town but the fresh produce aisle are always well stocked. Ridiculous.

[@Mienarrr]

Poor Amy 😅 I know they agreed to do this but having to subject yourself to unhealthy crap like that sounds like an absolute nightmare to me. My body would not be able to handle that much bad fat, sugar and sodium.

[@lynb87]

The main nutrients were equal in both diets and she still fared worse.

[@Balla1527]

Unfortunately British lifestyle (worked to the bone live like a peasant) isn't compatible with a healthy diet that you prepare yourself from the ground up. Many of us will continue to eat ultra processed food because we don't have time in our day to cook properly.

[@JohnDoe-wb9ht]

"worked to the bone, live like a peasant"😂😂😂

[@winstoningram99]

We do. Nobody is too busy to prepare good quality food. Just too lazy

[@mountainstream8351]

While the royals live in absolute luxury. What a terrible system that is. You people ought to abolish the monarchy. They are bleeding you of all your wealth.

[@Balla1527]

@@winstoningram99 I'm not talking retired people. I'm talking the working class, the ones who struggle to pay bills every month, you know, the exploited majority.

[@Balla1527]

@@winstoningram99 also, quality food is just too expensive for the normal adult that has to work 12 hours a day to put a roof over their head.

[@joseenoel8093]

What a great documentary, we really 'do' need to be scared 😨 into better diets! My husband and I met in our 30's and he was never allowed to bring kentucky fried chicken into our home, now all chains have been kicked out of Quebec, Canada!

[@Misses-Hippy]

I admire Quebec for looking after the health of its people. An ouce of prevention equating a pound of cure. Very wise. Easier on the health system too. Great 'nanny'! People come before corporate greed. Good stuff.

[@boldbumblebee2735]

KFC chicken is still in Quebec. But because they passed a law that companies had to advertise in French, the KFC (Kentucky fried chicken) stores are called PFK (poulet frit Kentucky). Same chicken being sold under a name translated into French.

[@lil----lil]

Politicians : U paying 4 my campaign..YES? Ultra Processed Foods Companies: Of course. U need to ask? It's already done. Politicians: Ultra processed foods are good 4 U! Let the kids eat the cakes!

[@viralnorn9173]

Processed foods that are created so some corporations can make billions is the worst use of science that we have.

[@tastypymp1287]

No. I'd argue bioweapons are much worse.

[@weird-guy]

Even “normal” food were manipulated for centuries

[@vallendior]

Please use triplets next time. I would love to see one sibling in the middle of the two extreme diets with a more moderate approach to ingesting processed foods. Perhaps moderation will yield the same or nearly the same results as the highly processed diet or maybe moderately consuming processed foods isn’t that bad.

[@TheJillianJiggss]

Eating healthy isnt an extreme diet... She ate a normal balanced diet lol

[@lars2894]

Just a reminder to everyone that Britain's processed foods are miles healthier when in comparison to the US processed foods!!

[@hktc412]

This is a good piece of article and really good to let people knows what we should do to our health and make a change.

[@jamesmariani984]

Only people interested in making a change in their diet are going to watch these kinds of videos. Even then most will not. Change is hard.

[@Lea_5584]

4:25 I love the french accent of the doctor ❤

[@westlondonrider3094]

In a world where whole natural foods are scarce due to the overpopulation of the world, ultra process foods have gained popularity due to the easy of manufacturing compared to cultivation. In terms of making raw ingredients feed more people through processing and addition of chemicals and preservatives.

[@DavidJohnson-dc8lu]

The world is far from overpopulated. Got rid of processed food and cultivated natural food properly, we wouldn't be here and we wouldn't be here with the list of illnesses either. There are poor kids running around with exacerbated ADHD and diabetes issues just because of processed food.

[@tastypymp1287]

It isn't overpopulated.

[@angelachanelhuang1651]

smirnoff

[@GLopezMad]

Why EMULSIFIERS are legal to use? It may enhance the look but are potentially harmful!!

[@DavidGetling]

I LMAO when I look at the prices of so many ready meals. I can cook far better at a much lower price. The same goes for baking cakes. So why don't people do themselves a massive favour and cook?

[@peterfarr9591]

I'm a little skeptical of the way this was conducted. It wasn't a blind study and placebo can make a huge impact

[@_unknown_channel_]

The only way to live without ultra-processed food is to cook and eat natural ingredients yourself . Even then , fried foods should be avoided as much as possible . It is so hard for us to live youthfully and healthily .

[@Glimmmerra]

It's not hard at all.

[@ksg568]

Our supermarkets dont have natural ingredients anymore, everything is sprayed with pesticides and even chicken breast is pumped with growth hormones and antibiotics. If you can afford to buy organic then do so but its way more expensive as if organic shouldnt be the default, but noo they have messed up our agriculture so much dont know what it will take to reverse it.

[@curiositycloset2359]

Nothing wrong with fried food. It's what you fry in that matters.

[@_unknown_channel_]

@@curiositycloset2359 ← 　 Oil of fried foods becomes oxidised when fried foods are made . Especially oxidation of oil of deeply-fried foods is strong . Oxidised oil seems bad for the body . Fried meat and fish that use flour or bread crumbs for coating contain substances that proteins and sugars have bonded together . Such substances seem bad for the body .

[@curiositycloset2359]

@@_unknown_channel_ don't use seed oils. Tallow or ghee, are fine.

[@ShahilAziz]

Did anyone get shocked by the revelation?

[@Cheezwizzz]

Advertising of cheap processed foods also needs to be addressed, we’re bombarded by junk food ads that are typically aimed at children, take cereal for example or ‘breakfast desert’ lots of fun colors super sweet highly addictive causes long term developmental issues BUT it’s 100% whole grain (always printed in green to reassure parents that it’s semi healthy and/or environmentally friendly?) I always wonder do the manufacturers of this crap let their own children eat it?

[@hugo-garcia]

If you read the label and you don't know what the ingredient is so don't eat. If I gave you a fruit that you never heard of and don't know the name of, would you eat it? Somehow people eat things they have no idea what it is every day. You have no idea what half of your yogurt ingredients are and you still eat

[@simonjohnwright5129]

Sardines and baked beans with whole wheat bread are the way forward. Ditch your takeaways. Vegetables please.

[@linuxducky]

Under this theory both would have emulsifiers in order to be tinned and be bad for you.

[@Maverick_42]

So much science goes into concocting all the processed food. Such a waste of human talent.

[@___beyondhorizon4664]

I am eating healthy in general, once in a while for breakfast, I like pastries because my coffee is without sugar, just coffee and almond milk. I find almond milk to be filling, I think because it's protein , with creamy texture. Lately I started eating my spring mixed salad greens without any salad dressing most of the time. I put it in my soup, pasta, Chinese noodles, eat it with my omelette. The greens are very tender, it taste yummy 😋 without heavy dressing

[@GeXExtremist]

The almond milk is full of seed oils and other crap, creating inflammation in your body, as for your salad try balsamic vinaigrette, it’s olive oil mixed with balsamic vinegar and is very good for you

[@tranvinhnhat1289]

I used to be 115 kg at age 26 and it was miserable for me. Now i’m 84 kg which is better but still overweight so i need to lose at 75-70 kg.

[@NannyOggins]

Its high time the government took more of a role in educating the populace about healthy foods at school level. We are often treated like idiots, told only not to do this or that but with no real scientific explanation! Most adults won’t take advice when it’s simply a command with no explanation. This documentary is a small start but we need a Huberman approach to understand the nitty gritty details!

[@JohnDoe-wb9ht]

I'm sure labour are on the case and will make it on their to do list when voted in.

[@helenpauls1496]

@@JohnDoe-wb9htGood for you. Get all parents involved too.

[@tastypymp1287]

I say it's high time the government did absolutely nothing to indoctrinate the population and stay out of our business completely. Fix the potholes.

[@curiositycloset2359]

Educate yourself. The government rarely helps anything. I remember them telling everyone to eat margarine, in the 80s and 90s. Now we know that's "ultra processed".

[@curiositycloset2359]

@@JohnDoe-wb9ht you've got a lot to learn.

[@placeholder3853]

Britain needs a proper food culture reset for the general masses

[@noemieb.2726]

Thanks, this is so important!!!

[@Victor-tl4dk]

And this is in the UK where foods have to be proven to not be dangerous before they can be sold.

[@robinhood4640]

"Food manufacturers take the health of consumers and safety of food they produce seriously" If this was actually anything remotely resembling the truth, the next part of the declaration would not even be necessary "and adhere to the strict regulations". The only reason the regulations exist is because the food industry cannot be trusted to take health and safety seriously.

[@jangheedavidhan6253]

This should be required in all schools, including kindergarten

[@thefanone]

Scientists have said all along that processed food is bad for the body and now the average person can understand why😢😢

[@AndrewPawley11]

Tim Spector is rapidly becoming the most accomplished science communicator we have in the UK.

[@Pou1gie1]

If governments make processed foods more expensive and less accessible, this would help. Many poor ppl go for fast food and boxed foods because they are cheaper and cooking can be time consuming for a family struggling to find time to cook. Make healthy food less expensive and allow people more time to cook for their families by making the work day have time for ppl to head home and cook for their families. If you get home at 6pm, you aren't going to want to start chopping and cooking for an 1.5 to 2 hrs (which is what it takes me to cook a whole foods meal).

[@user-bi8ko7kc6h]

I can’t agree with you. What’s going to happen is companies will stop selling healthy food cause it’s way more difficult to change the working hr for people so people will still buy processed food. And companies will make even more processed food to earn more money.

[@brokenalgorithms4741]

It only takes 20-30 minutes to cook a quick dinner.

[@tastypymp1287]

Why do you expect the government to do absolutely everything? Whats wrong with you?

[@Glimmmerra]

It only takes about half an hour to cook a quick meal, keep it SIMPLE.

[@techboy86]

Ultra-Processed foods (UPF) was the invention of the food industry in late 70's, it increased their profitability by giving longer shelf life to foods, and using cheaply sourced carbohydrates. On the flip side it freed the Housewife (yes it was mainly housewife's in 70's/80's) from the kitchen, as preparing meals from natural single sourced food ingredients was time consuming. It has been scientifically linked as a primary cause of obesity, Diabetes, cancer, and their is some research also for a potential cause of IBS (Irritable Bowl Syndrome). A healthy bowel wall has a natural lining of fibre and mucus, UPF Emulsifiers have been linked to stripping away this mucus layer, and UPF has fibre removed from it. This is a double blow to the health of your bowel! Until the public pushes back against the supermarkets and food industry, they will keep feeding us this crap, an healthy options will always be expensive. I've been trying to avoid UPF's for last couple of years, its not easy as it is literally everywhere (anything with a plastic wrap on it)! However I have seen my natural gut micro-flora (bacteria) diversity improve significantly, since I have. A healthy and diverse gut bacteria species has been linked to a longer & healthier life.

[@followveganismforahealthyl2790]

I don’t eat ultra processed food ,freshly cook my food four times a day with lot of whole grains,legumes, seeds,nuts,fruits,vegetables with very little salt and no sugar . Being giving my kid her morning bf drink of multi grain,nuts,seeds porridge with finger millet,Sorghum,Pearl millet,other millets, oats g,q, legumes,nuts and seeds since she was 8 months old kid,that she is having to this day,Earlier it was watery porridge she hates chewing food in the morning,nowadays I soak 3/4 tbsp of steel oats and cook it,when half cooked put my porridge mix powder,then add ground dates or dates powder to it ,because as she is growing up,and walking to school most of the days and climbing 100 steps with a 5 kg bag,she feels hungry when she reaches her school,now she is ok to wait till her first interval when she has multigrain,legumes roti, with vegetables, then lunch sprouts pilaf or veggie pilaf with curd…….Then at home again roti ,salad,veggies……snack some grain noodles made at home,or some rice flakes poha ,then we are off to play football,cricket and cycle for minimum an hour,dinner grain pancake,made of Sorghum/oats/finger millet/ that’s it.

[@followveganismforahealthyl2790]

Too busy kid study for 2/3 hours a day, don’t have the time for entertainment. To catchup on garbage.

[@asahdo]

How do you have time to work? I also only feed my two year old home cooked non upf food. But I’m a law student. I don’t know how I’m going to manage when I have to go back to working full time

[@followveganismforahealthyl2790]

@@asahdo I escaped becoming a Industrial Revolution slogging slave,who slogs for money but has very little time for her family.😊

[@followveganismforahealthyl2790]

@@asahdo I hope you will manage this work- life balance. You can hire a nanny,cook who can take care of your kid when you get back to work,pray that your kid doesn’t imbibe their language and qualities.duh

[@followveganismforahealthyl2790]

@@asahdo Please raise your kids properly before you speak about other children ,it’s a general advice, I grew up in a generation of less monetary resources,but had abundance of parent time ,the present generation ,children of working class women has gone for a toss,most corrupt,badly behaved kids I have ever seen, and yeah I see them everyday standing in for somebody they don’t know based on social media here say. Stop being a meme and chart your own life.

[@BayneBoy1]

This is timely. In Barbados, we just concluded the Small Island Developing States Conference on NCDs and Mental Health.

[@y0un9c0d3r]

Came here to see the numbers from the test they carried out there but all I heard is someone preaching about processed foods.

[@julianaylor4351]

I've found so many processed foods are full of sugar. If you're short of money buy Sainsbury's cheap white and wholemeal bread....no sugar in it, tastes like cheap bread from twenty years ago....45p. The dearer sliced breads are full of sugar. Nevermind the other stuff which is mostly crap, it's the sugar / dextrose / glucose in every other bit of savoury food, including cheese sauce, pesto, ketchup, bread, meat pies, hash browns and salad dressings, that's the worst culprit. 🤢

[@tarafall1]

I noticed this today. That very cheap bread has a lot less rubbish in it than the more expensive bread.

[@julianaylor4351]

@@tarafall1 I've decided because I can cook from scratch, to make my own cheese sauce and salad dressings. I found every single one of these on the supermarket shelves had sugar in!!?? 😳

[@GeXExtremist]

All bread is crap, it’s man made wheat with lack of nutrition and full of preservatives and other man made chemicals to increase size, look and shelf life, it’s not real food

[@keithpp1]

Check out the ingredients of dark chocolate. Nearly all contain emulsifiers.

[@mondo6595]

what are some examples of the ultra-processed foods ? can we have the amy menu and her sister's menu cuz the changes in 2 weeks are surprising and concerning

[@1029blue]

They are referring to foods with a lot of additives. As a general rule of thumb, the shorter the ingredient list, the better. Go with fresh produce or plain frozen fruits and vegetables for convenience.

[@weird-guy]

At this point every food has been processed, but they are referring at already made foods in packaging. Rules if it comes from the earth or a animal your safe ( off course nothing is safe but is not ultra processed)

[@nicholaspostlethwaite9554]

They will not tell you the foods or total consumed by those twins as they clearly did not control them at all. Weight gain or loss is only caused by calorie intake nothing else. They clearly did not control them to the same calories, or they cheated out of sight/monitoring. Fairly obvious what the 'required' result was and they engineered it. 'Additives' make zero difference to weight. Calories only, do that. Complete junk science to fake a result wanted for media purposes.

[@GeXExtremist]

Pretty much everything is processed unless your buying pasture raised meat/eggs and organic whole plants, stuff like 90% dark chocolate is minimally processed but still very good for you, a frozen pizza would be ultra processed, full of crap and I wouldn’t even consider it real food

[@nicholaspostlethwaite9554]

@@GeXExtremist Yes most foods come under their definition. Plain stupid. No there is nothing wrong with processed foods. Without them we would starve anyway. Without a mass return to the land home growing. Their made up definition of UPF is pure fantasy. Real science would isolate the particular chemicals and show an actual cause of some problem. As governments have done in proper testing. This is a catch all glib expression designed for media consumption of pseudoscience. Also utterly impractical. swap all seed oils for butter. Just try it! Enormous areas of land to sustain the dairy herds needed to do that. Let alone the price. Margarine, and cooking oils are perfectly fine.

[@bluelightalarm]

What is wrong with the quality of this video? It looks like it was ripped from a low bitrate stream - deffinitely NOT HD!

[@jlindsa]

The next story should focus on outlining how we got here. Isn't this all a fairly "new" industry? I believe a lot of cereals for example, really took off with the public post WW2.

[@AT-eu4zu]

There’s food and there’s junk , not junk food.

[@smileonaplate]

At this point in time with so much information accesibile to everyone, not investing time to cook your own meals is wrong. Unfortunately convenience is winning in the developed countries. Such a shame cooking skills are not tought in schools. Such a shame the medical system does nothing to prevent all these deadly deseases. Cooking from scratch is easy and should bring joy and happiness every day to nourish our bodies, not a chore.

[@tex-mex_gal]

This should be taught at every school in the world... Seriously concerned about the consumption of processed foods & ultra processed foods...🤢🤮

[@user-pv3qk7qi1w]

Interesting. It would have been even more insightful if they switched the diets after 2 weeks

[@Bigboss-xe6lm]

They say we should vote with our wallets. But when all you can buy is ultra processed the goverments of the world should probably take a f'ing look at regulating this madness and greed

[@RRbobreed]

I'm surprised that you would release such information using one 1 twin comparison (N=1) without providing a basic blood panel (profile) to discern how similar the twins health was at the beginning of the extremely small comparison. Additionally, you created this video prior to proper peer reviewed and or double blind studies where scientist can read and evaluate your experimental design, material & methods and statistical analysis. Furthermore, scientist and medical drs understand that you can't reach statistical significance with a comparison of just one set of twins. This can be potentially misleading due to the lack of explanation layman terms (given that your video appears to target this group, in my opinion). It's also misleading when you don't explain that differences correlative or causative results, and that it is often very difficult discern between the two, particularly without any peer reviewed, published research articles about your own research. Much more research must be performed before you can make such assumptions or leaps in interpretation. It would have been more informative and meaningful if you had performed a detailed analysis of eating, exercise, a behavioral comparisons, a baseline, between the twins to determine how similar they were prior to the beginning of your experiment instead of only comparing their eating habits of processed vs nonproceeds foods. I understand that there has been a gathering of data of a large group, but then why haven't you published this information? Why create a video of a comparison of only 1 set of twins? I truly am interested. I've edited this comment to ask if you have considered or tested additional chemicals that are included in processed foods other than emulsifiers - there are so many! Thank you.

[@Kwippy]

It's a popular science program for the masses, not academic scientific study. Get over yourself.

[@RRbobreed]

@@Kwippy Wow! Talk about assuming and attacking someone you don't even know! My concern is that incomplete information that has not been adequately proven is being distributed and therefore people may start to believe something that hasn't been adequately proven. It's a concern for others.

[@andrewlaw8121]

Yes I agree with Susan, science reporting needs peer review prior to reporting. There should also be consequences for misreporting. It’s a shame our state of science education needs media to report to us what to think without relying on the public to think for themselves

[@theancientsancients1769]

​@@RRbobreed I don't think you need peer reviewed journals to know this stuff is negative to human health ! Thousands of clinical research has shown processed food is harmful to human health!

[@VOLightPortal]

I agree with Susan. These news media channels have a responsibility to broadcasting scientifically sound concerns surrounding health and our food that are accurate and not misleading. Rather than resort to low quality news reporting as if trying to teach a baby 1+1=2, they should stop assuming the masses are stupid and try to expand more on the issue and strive for accuracy of reporting, introduce nuance, and avoid framing the issue in black and white. Like everyone knows processed foods as a general rule of thumb, might probably not be as healthy as eating more whole food plant based, but not all processed food or processed ingredients are necessarily bad (i.e. tomato paste, vinegar?). For all we know, some ultra-processed plant based product meat alternatives might even have real health benefits! Also lumping all emulsifiers as if it's the culprit seems a bit strange, as this video seems to be giving off, and may hugely misinform the public as anyone could misinterpret the video as such. They could have been more helpful by telling us a few more names of different emulsifiers (the video only mentions there are around 60 of them, but only names 1) and go into more detail why they might be problematic and which ones are safe. And then cite reference to a systematic review or RCT study to back it up. It's not that difficult and should be the bare minimum requirement. It's this kind of shoddy doomsday low quality journalism that ends up with swaths of people wrongly believing vaccines cause autism, or 3G causes cancer, and other hogwash.

[@tudormiller887]

This is crazy. Such a high percentage of the population are extremely obese right now. The government refusing to put a 'sugar tax' on certain foods or getting rid of BOGOF deals on food products is insane. Being Obese is normalized via mainsteeam media, social media influencers and celebrity culture.

[@FugazStar]

while at it, why not also fight back the "big-size-is-beautiful" movement. It teaches everyone, especially kids, that being obese is fine and should be normalized and accepted in society. And telling people against it, now it's labeled "fat-shaming". I know I'm going against the current here, but it needs to be said. Aesthetics aside, this movement just adds fuel to the fact that our youth already struggles with lots of mental issues including all the different types of eating disorders. It's depressing that at least here in the US the government is doing nothing to fight back, instead they love playing politics.

[@ster2600]

No, because there's no evidence that making people more unhappy about their bodies achieves anything more than making them miserable. People don't want to be fat, but for most people, weight is determined by genetics more than anything

[@zoeathomson4305]

All the takeaways are full and open, Remember Boris? Keeping pubs open and fast food in march 2020. Great Britten is so unhealthy it's unreal

[@kimfred7743]

One of the biggest problems is that the ultra processed foods are mostly far cheaper than the unprocessed, or I say, the natural one. This is why so many people have to choose unhealthy, convenient foods 🙁

[@Mira-pm3ni]

Of course it's cheap but at the same time it's expensive also . Later one has to pay for it . Hospital bills and medicines will not be cheap . Plus the body and mind will suffer also 🙂

[@johnmwakilili]

@@Mira-pm3ni you hear that... The main word is later.... People live in the now, later will take care of itself

[@onlygazza]

Pretty much all vegan and vegetarian food is ultra processed ⚠️

[@JohnUtaka_]

I've been eating processed foods all my life, I'm 27 now, with type 2 diabetes, my fault really but sticking to a good diet is not easy. Not just the fact that I can't force myself to, I can if I try really hard. But it's just that professed foods are more easily accessible and cheaper 😢

[@lw1zfog]

the corporation doesn’t care, money is the motivator, even if there are now micro plastics being found in placenta’s

[@weronika4579]

It's even more scary when you think how the ultra-processed foods would've looked in America. I am myself from Europe, but I know that the standard for processed food in general there is terrific, especially in the United States.

[@curiositycloset2359]

"Terrific" isn't the word I think you meant to use.

[@movingtargets7833]

@@curiositycloset2359 terrorising

[@weronika4579]

@@curiositycloset2359 Oh ok, sorry. I thought it meant „horrible” (really bad)🤷‍♀️. I’m not native though.

[@curiositycloset2359]

@@weronika4579 it's a bit of a strange word. More akin to sublime, but has lost a bit of its meaning. All good

[@HannahGreendale]

@@curiositycloset2359 Linguistics fanatic chiming in (highly recommend the book Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper)! By definition, terrific now means "great in size or intense", but its archaic use meant "causing terror", as movingtargets7833 explained. Informally, it means "good or excellent", as you interpreted it. That's the fun of language's fluidity; it's ever evolving. As you said, terrific is a tricky word, and it's myriad meanings require readers to intuit the author's intended use. That said, it's clear that weronika4579's use was intended to mean "causing terror" (i.e., "horrible").

[@andycpd6669]

This is why there are so many people these days with stuff like ibs

[@寒柳堂小厮]

I know it, but I have no other choice. My time is occupied by making a poor salary in this island.

[@Balla1527]

​@CJJK he just said he doesn't have time everyday.

[@Balla1527]

@CJJK idk if he's lieing or not but for me, I wish I had the time to prepare a healthy meal everyday but unfortunately I work 12 hours a day cannot afford to save any money since mortgages and bills are so high

[@sustainablelivingwannabe1756]

Apparently, you have time to watch youTube and write comments!

[@novaste1238]

As a single parent working more than one job, cleaning the house myself etc, it's very tempting to eat processed foods as they are quicker to prepare. But we are lucky in the sense that processed foods trigger our allergies and also make us feel horrible. So I've LEARNT to cook whole foods because I've had to. It's a lot more effort - both whilst choosing items at the store and planning/cooking meals. Sometimes a little pricier, but definitely worth it. Must say I don't often buy the organic stuff but always try for free range. One way or another we are consuming harmful ingredients somewhere along the line, but if you just put in that extra effort and do your best, you can make small changes for the better ❤

[@lifeisdead01]

Making the effort in spite of the difficulties makes you an incredible parent!

[@novaste1238]

@@lifeisdead01 thank you, that is very nice of you to say x