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RE: Satiety: Why People Get Fat

in #food7 years ago

Very interesting way to define processed foods. I always thought of processed foods as raw food that has been put in packages and various items are added to it to make it taste good. For example, sugar and salt. This changed the way I look at it.

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Thanks for reading epearson. I'm happy you took something from it. A lot of people think like you used to--that GMOs and additives and "chemicals" are what make certain foods unhealthy. (Everything in the physical world is made of 100% chemicals [not 99%], naturally occurring arsenic exists in our bodies, GMOs have never been proven unhealthy, and most food additives have been approved by international regulatory bodies with strict safety standards.)

Your old type of thinking leads to people forsaking fruit at Walmart and buying expensive organic soda (this actually exists) and non-GMO candy bars from Whole Foods.

There are only four truly "fattening" food ingredients: added sugar, white flour, vegetable oil, and processed meat. (And also all sugary drinks, especially juice.) These are all utterly ubiquitous in the Western food supply.

I'll defend all this in future posts :)

Organic soda. That's just sounds off. I've given up on juice a long time ago and drink filtered water. Looking forward to your future posts.