I like to think of highly processed foods as “partially pre-digested”. It’s too easy for your body to absorb which is why it leaves you feeling dissatisfied and hungry shortly after, and it still makes you fat.
Y’know…
Yeah great point. Humans are definitely always better at doing things (while pursuing profit) than millions of years of evolution can do :/
This mf out here thinking they aren’t the result of millions of years of evolution.
And that the things they eat are the result of natural selection only.
It helps to define what processed food is, specifically what constitutes “processed”
From Wikipedia:
Food processing is the transformation of agricultural products into food, or of one form of food into other forms.
Food processing takes many forms, from grinding grain into raw flour, home cooking, and complex industrial methods used in the making of convenience foods.
Tertiary food processing is the commercial production of what is commonly called processed food.[2] These are ready-to-eat or heat-and-serve foods, such as frozen meals and re-heated airline meals.
Imagine having unprocessed food. It’s like raw and uncooked and unseasoned and simply unprocessed. Sounds awful to be honest.
There is a lot of truth to this
Processed food, is easier to digest, more nutritious, less likely to contain deadly bacteria/viruses, lasts longer.
The real problem is our dumb bodies and brains have no sense of moderation and we consume too much.
The only real problem that isn’t an adaptation issue is the preservatives, digestion is essentially a sped up form of decomposition if our food doesn’t rot it doesn’t digest.
Also, processed foods are usually made with lower quality ingredients in unbalanced ratios.
Just look at how high quality medically prescribed balanced food can be and compare that against the average breakfast cereal or training supplement.
Yeah. Our bodies are doing the right thing after millions of years of evolution. When you find something high fat high carb and salty, go crazy before the bear kills you. It just doesn’t know that there’s infinitely more food and almost no chance of a bear attacking you. We developed food much faster than our brains could adapt.
At the same time, we are not just our bodies but also our gut biome, and they particularly enjoy less processed foods, high in fiber, highly fermentable, and still intact even after crossing stomach.
It just doesn’t know that there’s infinitely more food and almost no chance of a bear attacking you.
Did you just assume our bear threat level??? What if we live in Detroit??? I mean, I assume bears frequently roam Detroit’s streets with how run down it is…
Or what about San Fransisco? I hear there’s TONS of bears there!
Likewise, if you try to lose weight, millions of years of conditioning kick in. Your body thinks its starving to death and acts accordingly.
You’re right. Though each time I try to go in calorie deficit I can see that first few days feel awful and then suddenly my body is able to be content with 500 calorie deficit easily for months until I indulge again for day 2-3 days. Almost as if it accepts the fate until more food is available.
This just made the best argument for how I’m going to plan my diet going forward. Nothing but fries and ice cream from now on. I’ll be a paragon of health.
Remember, if you can’t light your ice cream on fire without it melting then find yourself a different brand.
it’s not burning, it’s soot
I’ve never seen this before and I’m horrified.
Ice cream not melting seems like a small problem considering ice cream in general are full of saturated fat and sugar.
You just forgot about the ice and cream portion didn’t you?
Supposedly Christian Bale consumed a diet of exclusively pizza and ice cream to get from a Machinist physique to a Batman one, so maybe you’re more right than you realized!
Your sodium, cholesterol, and blood sugar levels will earn gold, silver, and bronze medals for their Olympic-grade high jumps. And that’s how you know it’s healthy.
If we want to max processed make sure you’re going for ice creams that cannot legally call itself ice cream, “frozen desserts”.
I wouldn’t say frozen milk is particularly far into processed territory.
Organic food rots, ewww. Processed food can last forever, yayyyy!
Right, who would put that could potentially
be broken down by natural processesrot in your system. Gross! (/S)
I don’t just want it processed.
I want it intelligently designed.
Unprocessed food is, where your belly realizes where to stop. Processed food is, where your brain wants more.
There’s processed, and then there’s Processed. When I make bread, it’s a processed food, it’s not just whole wheats. Except for fruit, most of what I eat is processed, but not much Processed.
French fries are so delicious though. Chips and chips are my junk food.
The actual term is ultra processed. Anything that requires industrial level machinery to make or industrial ingredients are ultra processed.
This podcast episode goes into great detail about the subject. https://youtu.be/eNOi66OclA4?si=XDtfu-NhhfYLlThx
Requires? You can make French fries at home. Doesn’t make it organic, or healthy.
Did you mean: Ultra-processed food?
See also: Nova classification
You are literally designed to eat craps found on the ground.
I tried that once. Don’t eat the Milk Duds that come out of a rabbit, trust me, they taste like shit.
We’re all eating craps on this blessed day.
I’m pretty sure we were literally designed to do what we’re doing.
Instructions unclear, literally craps on ground.
Eat my shit, then
You should probably look into this new fancy technology called “indoor plumbing”.
Worse part is that food is designed to make the most profit and there a lot of tasty and cheap things you shouldn’t eat that much.
Well … it’s designed for you to buy at least
Yeah mc donalds doesnt give a fuck if you immediately throw it in the trash after buying it. It was absolutely only made to be sold, nothing more.
Throwing it away is probably the best option
Except for not buying it in the first place of course
The system works. dust hands
