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Everything else is cool, personally not on board with the processed food anxieties. For ingredients shown to be harmful, then yeah, absolutely regulate them to hell. That’s why we don’t have bromine or partially hydrogenated oils in food anymore. But there is a lot of right wing RETVRN shit surrounding the idea of processed foods and eating a healthier diet, which isn’t synonymous with an absence of processed foods; someone eating a salad with processed salad dressing for lunch every day isn’t eating a worse diet than someone who eats steak every day for lunch, even though the salad contains processed ingredients.
The obsession the right wing have with processed foods (see: RFK Jr, the predominantly red states that have passed laws on processed foods recently) also raises the question of who is dealing with all the extra labor of cooking every meal from scratch? In the average heterosexual household, that’s going to fall mostly on women. To me this looks a lot like one more unreasonable standard of homemaking being applied to women from conservatives.
I’ve updated it to say ultra processed foods, which are not a good food to eat a lot of.
Avoid processed foods
No olive oil, no pasteurized milk, no milk alternatives, no chopped fruits or veggies, etc. You may as well say avoid food.
It’s obviously in reference to ultra-processed foods, likewise it says avoid not abstain. What is with literalists thinking everything is a gotcha.
Why use a word that doesn’t mean what it means?
Even if I’m not “being a literalist,” there’s no stable definition of ultra-processed foods. Within the literature the same foods get classified into different levels of processing by different authors. And there’s no reason why a food that’s more processed is more unhealthy than a food that’s less processed. I don’t think most people would say a ribeye with melted butter on it is “ultra-processed”, but it’s still not really heart healthy. Likewise protein powder is a heavily processed product that, as part of a varied diet, can be supportive of your health.
This whole thing is just the latest fad in diet culture, it’s complete bullshit. Just say junk food.
I first started avoiding UPF in 2008. I lost 100 pounds that year with just that one rule, and riding a bike to work. it is not complete bullshit, and there is a stable definition.
Protien powder is the bullshit, grab some lentils. You want to eat chemically altered food, that is fine, but it is not bullshit. a rib eye with butter is not ultra processed. that protien powder is, and beans/lentils are better than red meat anyways. the whole, two things can be true
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ultra processed foods, outside of health, are made by giant food corpos, who dont give a fuck about their employees, steal wage labor, and are capitalist companies.
you should avoid upf for more reasons than just health.
