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Even The Best Ultra-Processed Foods Still Look Like They Might Scuttle Your Long-Term Weight Loss Goals

Filed Under: Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Even The Best Ultra-Processed Foods Still Look Like They Might Scuttle Your Long-Term Weight Loss Goals
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Somebody Please Cue-Up The Frozen Pizza Remix Of “Sabotage”!:

Stock traders and investors will often call a good company in a challenged sector, “The best house in a bad neighborhood.”

This should be an idea we all memorize because even in the developed world, consumption of Ultra-Processed Food is going up.

With about 74% of the US population being either obese or overweight, that’s a genuine problem.

For some reason, it seems like UPFs live in an +/- “Iron Triangle of Business”: Cost, Quality, Convenience; Pick two.

And even though a team of British nutrition researchers tried to pick the “best” UPFs they could out of that minefield, they still didn’t do that well…

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You Actually Cannot Eat Just One. Ultra-Processed Junk Food Rewires Your Brain To Serve The Borg

Filed Under: Nutrition

You Actually Cannot Eat Just One. Ultra-Processed Junk Food Rewires Your Brain To Serve The Borg
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What If Ultra-Processed Foods Are A Nutritional Neutron-Bomb?:

Nietzsche famously once said, “If you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”

Pretty profound stuff, even for “the world’s first psychologist”. (except for Aristotle and a few 1,000 others)

But Ole’ Fred turns out to be right, even when it concerns addicts.

Because the high-powered substances they use do change your brain for a pretty long time.

Weirdly-enough, it may not be just the people engaging in lab-grade neurochemistry who are in trouble.

Because a Nolan Ryan-fastball-grade study out of McGill and Helsinki suggests at least half of us are on the edge of similar trouble…

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

Filed Under: Nutrition

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

Filed Under: Nutrition

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

Filed Under: Nutrition

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

Filed Under: Highlights, Nutrition

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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Ultra-Processed Food Vs. Aging: The Unexpected Imbalances Of Factory-Food May Affect Your DNA

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

Ultra-Processed Food Vs. Aging: The Unexpected Imbalances Of Factory-Food May Affect Your DNA
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Ultra-Processed Food & Aging. The Wrong Kind Of Back To The Future:
Most of us get told to eat better all the time.

It’s the most popular topic in health and wellness other than bizarre crash diets.

And fair enough, because most of us probably should be eating a little bit better.

But the strangest thing about the deep-dives on this subject is that Dr. Neal Barnard’s superfoods for your brain and Joel Fuhrman’s emphasis on whole foods and micronutrients are looking like just the tip of the iceberg.

Because a Spanish research team is finding out that for a certain class of foods, the problems in your diet can get way worse than just you becoming a little fatter…

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Ultra-Processed Food Dangers: Ready To Eat Foods Can Readily Shorten Your Life

Filed Under: Highlights, Nutrition

Ultra-Processed Food Dangers: Ready To Eat Foods Can Readily Shorten Your Life
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Ultra-Processed Food Dangers. The Snack That Bites Back!:
We all worry to some extent about Nutrition.

And we’re all reminded on a fairly-regular basis to eat right.

This also comes with some vague stipulation about avoiding certain things.

But it may not always be clear other than the obvious platitudes.

However, recently a French team is looking into the How & Why of avoiding increasingly processed-foods,

And they are slowly putting together some actual Facts & Figures about why you really want to listen…

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