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It’s Time to End the Tyranny of Ultra-Processed Food (www.wired.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Haus@kbin.social to c/news@kbin.social

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Industrially processed pizzas, cereals, and convenience foods are responsible for a host of diseases. Policymakers and doctors need to lead the food fight.

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[–] blazera@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago (15 children)

Processed is a useless word. You gonna get sick from the pre-chopped broccoli?

[–] FiskFisk33@kbin.social 23 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Hence, they use the term ultra processed.

[–] blazera@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

and that's a made up term they forgot (or probably cant) define.

[–] FiskFisk33@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's a well defined term:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-processed_food

which the also take some time discussing in the beginning of the article.

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