Posted on Jul 24, 2023
An ultra-processed diet made this doctor sick. Now he's studying why
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Eating processed food is nothing new. Humans have been crushing grains to make bread for thousands of years. But in recent decades, our food supply has shifted, with an increasing number of ultra-processed products, made with fillers, additives, stabilizers and synthetic ingredients that our grandparents wouldn't recognize.
A recent analysis by the Access To Nutrition Initiative, finds about 70% of food products sold in the U.S. are unhealthy — and much of the food can be classified as ultra-processed.
So, are we the frogs in the boiling pot, adjusting to the shift toward ultra-processed foods, without realizing these foods may promote excess consumption, which may harm us?
Amid the global boom in diet-related diseases, including obesity and Type 2 diabetes, Dr. Chris van Tulleken, the author of Ultra-processed People, made himself a test subject for a brief, one-month, experiment.
Eating processed food is nothing new. Humans have been crushing grains to make bread for thousands of years. But in recent decades, our food supply has shifted, with an increasing number of ultra-processed products, made with fillers, additives, stabilizers and synthetic ingredients that our grandparents wouldn't recognize.
A recent analysis by the Access To Nutrition Initiative, finds about 70% of food products sold in the U.S. are unhealthy — and much of the food can be classified as ultra-processed.
So, are we the frogs in the boiling pot, adjusting to the shift toward ultra-processed foods, without realizing these foods may promote excess consumption, which may harm us?
Amid the global boom in diet-related diseases, including obesity and Type 2 diabetes, Dr. Chris van Tulleken, the author of Ultra-processed People, made himself a test subject for a brief, one-month, experiment.
An ultra-processed diet made this doctor sick. Now he's studying why
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Excellent post. Thank You for sharing this shipmate. I think it might be the processed food He ate. I concur. Processed foods have been around for years.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."How exactly did your diet change — what did you eat?
I started eating more snack food, so I'd have midmorning snacks. And I went back to eating the kind of cereal I loved as a child, so I would eat my chocolate-covered breakfast cereal. I drank more soda. And I made little swaps. For example, instead of eating nuts as a snack I'd eat chips. And then in the evening I had a lot more convenience food, so I was still eating a few vegetables, but I'd have microwavable lasagna or I'd have takeaway fried chicken or pizza.
Overall, about 80% of my calories came from ultra-processed foods, and that's very easy to do. Most bread in the supermarket is ultra-processed, almost all of our breakfast cereals and snack foods are ultra-processed, and most of our convenience foods are ultra-processed too."...
..."How exactly did your diet change — what did you eat?
I started eating more snack food, so I'd have midmorning snacks. And I went back to eating the kind of cereal I loved as a child, so I would eat my chocolate-covered breakfast cereal. I drank more soda. And I made little swaps. For example, instead of eating nuts as a snack I'd eat chips. And then in the evening I had a lot more convenience food, so I was still eating a few vegetables, but I'd have microwavable lasagna or I'd have takeaway fried chicken or pizza.
Overall, about 80% of my calories came from ultra-processed foods, and that's very easy to do. Most bread in the supermarket is ultra-processed, almost all of our breakfast cereals and snack foods are ultra-processed, and most of our convenience foods are ultra-processed too."...
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