• FauxPseudo @lemmy.world
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    This has and presents problems.

    The good news: it is using data from the Nurses Study. That’s hard data to beat because it’s got a great collection method going back years and years.

    Bad news: it’s only covering four years. Bad news: it defines ultra processed foods as, among other things. having lots of calories. But spends a whole lot of time blaming drinks with artificial sweeteners. The one thing artificial sweeteners aren’t is calorie dense.

    Either way it will give us something to argue about for a few years.

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      The one thing artificial sweeteners aren’t is calorie dense.

      Depends if HFCS counts as “artificial,” I suppose.

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      I have personally noticed that my hunger is worse when drinking sugar-free soda.

      quitting it made sticking to a calorie deficit easier.

      after I had these results I googled about it and apparently it’s known possible side-effect for women and overweight people

      so if anything the sugar free stuff is at least not all that no-brainer choice people make it out to be

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    “What we found is that consuming high amounts of ultra-processed foods could increase your risk of developing depression by up to 50%,” said Raaj Mehta, MD, MPH, one of the study’s authors and a gastroenterologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

    Obligatory: Fuck Nestlé (P&G, Unilever, etc.)

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      You know nothing is stopping people from eating these foods in moderation. You don’t have to go out and eat a family sized bag of chips by yourself in a single sitting.

      Consuming large amounts of any food in a single sitting would be bad for you.

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        Eating disorders exist, company cantines exist, poverty exists. Not everyone has free choice in exactly how much processed stuff they eat.

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          Everyone has a say in what they eat.

          A ten ounce bad of doritos at my local super market is $6

          I can get a pound of chicken breast for $4 and a pound if fresh green beans for $2.50

          I can buy a bunch of celery, baby carrots and a low calorie dip for the same price

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            Some people just don’t.

            People with ED might have to eat food that they know will cause problems in the long term because the short term consequences of the alternative are catastrophic.

            A lot of companies do not offer fridges or even any place to store food, the worker has to eat what the company offers.

            Poor people often do not have the time or energy to prepare their own food as they often have to work twice as hard if they ever want to rise above the poverty line. The time it takes to plan, store the ingredients (and some don’t even have the material necessities needed to store food) and prepare those supposedly cheaper fresh ingredients comes at the cost of not being able to work for that time. So it is often cheaper for the poor person to buy the seemingly more expensive processed food.

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              Then that is on the person woth an earing disorder. Of we removed everything from this world that effected some in a negative way nothing would be left

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                Then that is on the person woth an earing disorder.

                Sure, blame the sick for their illness.

                Of we removed everything from this world that effected some in a negative way nothing would be left

                what a thought-terminating sentence. We can’t remove everything that affects people in a negative way so lets just stop talking about it. The worker who has to work in sickening conditions, the poor who can’t freely choose if they want to live healthy, can’t eradicate it so it’s not worth thinking about. Anyway did you see that ludicrous display last night?

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                  Why would I blame companies that have nothing to do with it?

                  Hate to break it to you but I was once poor too amd worked hard bringing home little money and I never resulted to a bag of chips.knstead of picking up real food to cook for similar prices.

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          Unprocessed food is far more expensive. Very few people don’t have access either.

          I’d you are getting fat at work, Jesus Christ, have a modicum of self restraint.

  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Can’t wait for this study to be buried and it’s republished with “corrected” findings

    Remember sugar how they later said it was fat?