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The Dietary Plutonium Of Ultra-Processed Food Might Steal Your Mind & Accelerate Cognitive-Decline

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The Dietary Plutonium Of Ultra-Processed Food Might Steal Your Mind & Accelerate Cognitive-Decline
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UPF Junk Food Gives A Whole New Meaning To, “I Don’t Mind”:
Swanson may have had only good intentions when they wanted to make Thanksgiving dinner accessible to all in 1953.

But ever since that first set of turkey & sides were put into an aluminum tray, things have gotten steadily worse.

Because not only have obesity rates gone up a lot since then, but the rate of people consuming ultra-processed foods today is also increasing.

Worst of all, is that !SCIENCE! is finding that UPFs don’t just make you fat, like they did to the Amazon tribesmen who got “gifts” shipped-in from Nestle.

UPFs are like dietary plutonium. Not only are the after-effects weird, they look like they’re occurring in some of the worst ways…

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Junk Food Vs. Your Brain: How Sugary UPF Food Alters Your Wiring And Makes You Hate The Healthy Stuff

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Junk Food Vs. Your Brain: How Sugary UPF Food Alters Your Wiring And Makes You Hate The Healthy Stuff
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I’m Addicted To You, Snack Food! Don’t You Know That You’re Toxic?:
It seems as time goes by, we’re hearing about the influence of ultra-processed foods at an increasing rate.

Whether it’s a tribe in the Amazon that develops obesity and other health problems a year after Nestle drops off a shipment.

Or the increasing amount of “Junk Food” that Westerners are eating as obesity rates rise.

The insidious part of it is these fast & cheap foods are chockablock with all kinds of things that are just not healthy.

Like weird additives, fats, and high-concentrations of dietary crack cocaine.

And some researchers from the US & Germany are finding out that’s only where the problems start…

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Nordic Diet Benefits: Berries, Fish, + Oils May Make This “Mediterranean Of The North” Eating Plan A Life-Saver

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Nordic Diet Benefits: Berries, Fish, + Oils May Make This “Mediterranean Of The North” Eating Plan A Life-Saver
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Nordic Diet Benefits. Quality Ingredients, Fish, Berries, & Oils FTW:
There are several ways to improve your health through diet.

This is a popular route because 1) People hate math, so they won’t count calories even though it works,

2) They like to eat according to themes, because the idea is easier and the possibility that a notion or picture can overcome strict details is appealing.

An endless stream of diets became popular because of this like Keto, MIND, DASH, Mediterranean, South Beach, Carnivore, Bananavore, you name it.

Well there is another diet that westerners are trying in increasing numbers, and if the non-fad-based studies are correct, it may present another alternative to the endless parade of wacky plans for the math-averse…

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Energy Vs. Fatigue In Your Gut Microbes: That Case Of The Mondays Might Be All Down To Your Diet

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Energy Vs. Fatigue In Your Gut Microbes: That Case Of The Mondays Might Be All Down To Your Diet
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Energy & Fatigue Might All Be Products Of Nutrition And Gut Microbes:
A lot of times, we can get saturated with advice that can seem too common.

But there are a few things we might try to remember about that.

The advice can be common because it works, it’s been curated by history, and stood the test of time for good reason.

The second part is a bit sneakier. Advice can become common through repetition and we get inured to it.

When really there is a lot more to it than a bored mind would understand at face-value.

And a team from Texas A&M is finding out some surprising new ways that, “Eat a high-quality varied diet.” and “You are what you eat.” really do bring a lot more to the table than just the basics they seem to suggest…

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US Nutrition Trends Vs. Ultra-Processed Foods. Americans Getting More & More Of Less Healthy Foods

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US Nutrition Trends Vs. Ultra-Processed Foods. Americans Getting More & More Of Less Healthy Foods
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US Nutrition – Americans Eating More Of The Most Unhealthy Foods:
Several times here on HT, we’ve put out posts that confirmed the old adage, “Your food is your medicine.”

Running counter to that is a modern world that seems to be moving faster, becoming less real, and more like an episode of “Black Mirror”.

In that fast & cartoonish world, people can get addicted to new things; like speed, convenience, and immediate-gratification.

Especially when many businesses selling a product today seem to have contorted it into a dopamine-hacking video game of sorts.

Unfortunately, NYU is finding out that, after the great “Farm-to-table” I-am-so-over-this-fad-terminology ban of 2019, Americans are eating more food designed specifically for speed, convenience, and immediate-gratification…

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Food Choices And Longevity: The Decision Between Walnuts Or Hot Dogs Could Take Years Off Your Life

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Food Choices And Longevity: The Decision Between Walnuts Or Hot Dogs Could Take Years Off Your Life
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Food Choices & Lifespan. Your Life Could Get Shorter If You Choose Poorly:
So we’ve written extensively in the past about nutrition on this site.

Not just the standard stuff, but the freaky-outliers on both ends of the spectrum.

From Superfoods, to Micronutrients, to foods that seem to have their own biochemistry built-in.

But interestingly-enough, we don’t have much of an actual ratings-system for food.

You know how much octane is in certain fuels, and what ratings all the movies have.

Well, a U. Michigan team got together and assembled that system; and they also added some really-interesting “mileage” information, too…

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Processed Meat Heart-Disease Risks: Put Down That Sausage And Follow Me If You Want To Live!

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Processed Meat Heart-Disease Risks: Put Down That Sausage And Follow Me If You Want To Live!
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Processed Meat Potential Risks For Cardio & More!:
So we’ve talked before at great length about the evils of processed food.

Still further, red meat and processed meat have joined that dietary-risk category.

Not only that, but The WHO has about 39 reasons you should consider a little caution.

Now normally, most dietary studies are criticized or even thrown-out for their lack of precision.

But an international group looking at another large population of subjects is putting even more weight behind the idea that processed meats are really bad for you…

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Walnuts And Heart Health: Unexpected Benefits That Begin With The Magic Of Your Gut-Instinct

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Walnuts And Heart Health: Unexpected Benefits That Begin With The Magic Of Your Gut-Instinct
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Walnuts & Your Heart. A Strange Benefit That Starts Elsewhere:
When people talk about Nutrition, a lot of times it just seems to deal with the basics.

But here at HT, we are all about trying to go for the extra few percent that might make a big difference over time.

And along with the researchers who study it, that means hunting for small benefits in overlooked places.

This is nowhere better-exemplified than the search for SuperFoods.

And though similar evidence has come before, a PSU team discovered even stranger proof that adding nuts to your diet might just be a small miracle…

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