Bambini “nutriti a morte” con cibi ultra-processati etichettati come “sani”, avverte un medico leader
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/children-ultra-processed-foods-healthy-5HjdGQk_2/
di tylerthe-theatre
Bambini “nutriti a morte” con cibi ultra-processati etichettati come “sani”, avverte un medico leader
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/children-ultra-processed-foods-healthy-5HjdGQk_2/
di tylerthe-theatre
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This guy is really interesting. Good summary of the problem with UPF (and how we actually define it). Not preachy at all.
He talked at the Royal Institution. Link for anyone that has the time: https://youtu.be/5QOTBreQaIk?si=2naXGS85TnAm1fyC
This is something I am quite passionate about.
I see it all the time. Many many people have no idea what healthy food is. A worrying amount of people either look at the traffic light system or calories and use that to determine what is healthy.
To me there simply has to be a link between the increase consumption of UPF and obesity.
Don’t even get me started on the protein obsession.
Eat food (real food), mostly plants, not too much.
I am aware of cost and time issues that some people have around food preparation. But we need to at least educate people so they are aware.
“It is engineered so that you can not eat to appetite, it’s engineered very specifically and cleverly to bypass appetite.”
He’s not wrong. UPF is basically developed in a lab to confuse the appetite system it’s not getting enough of a specific nutrient, so you’re less satiated and more likely to eat more of the product.
The UPF industry is basically targeting the same mechanisms as the diet pill industry. They just work in polarising ways.
In any case, there’s a lot of stakeholders who want you to overeat, to profit from ill health.
People seem to balk at just eating normal plates of food these days. Like the concept of having eggs on toast seems foreign to some.
Time once again for me to point out that the *low fat* yogurt and fruit smoothie in Lidl contains 100g of sugar.
“That’s fructose from the fruit, right?”
The whole smoothie contains 4g of fruit.
I don’t have a problem with ultra processed foods as long as they are consumed as part of a healthy diet. I really do agree with the idea of the traffic light labelling though and it should be a legal requirement across the board. My partner had kidney issues so we had to be really careful over his consumption of salt. With the traffic light system you really do realise how difficult it is to buy healthy ready meals as all the tasty stuff is red. You find something you really like and then they change the recipe and bang, it’s red. Having to search and calculate salt content from the poor labelling of other brands was really a pain. Seeing green and orange on the label was a godsend. Making it easy for people to make healthy choices really is a no-brainer.
Now, I’d love to be able to re-live my youth and get some Bernard Matthew’s turkey drumsticks but the super unhealthy processed versions of the snack simply don’t exist and never ever will. Do I want to eat them every day? No. Take away my baked beans on toast? Over my dead body!
This doctor and his twin who is also a doctor did a brilliant podcast on this