• oxjox@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    You’re trying to find a problem for your solution.

    The obesity epidemic actually due to the increased availability of ultra processed foods.

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      4 months ago

      Is it? There’s primitive cultures that eat every kind of weird diet you can imagine, and they’re all thin and fit. It’s still kind of a mystery why exactly we can’t handle eating even a fraction like the historical Inuit, and just the processing itself shouldn’t change much.

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        Because ultra processed foods don’t fill us up but taste incredibly good. Technically the problem is overeating, but it’s a lot easier to overeat ultra processed foods.

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          4 months ago

          I mean, which foods even count as ultraprocessed isn’t well defined. It’s not an ingredient, it’s not a technique. OP was trying to find a problem for their solution, you’re right, but lack of exercise is just as big of a suspect if not bigger.

          They’re engineered to be very appealing for sure, but do you have a link for the not filling us up bit? That one’s new to me.