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Mildly annoyed that they gloss over terms like high fat, high calorie, and sugary as one blob called the western diet.
by klmadfejno 6y ago
Mildly annoyed that they gloss over terms like high fat, high calorie, and sugary as one blob called the western diet.
- stevenicr 6y agoThis comment got me to look at the article - and at least they are specifying that this is what they are meaning by the term. I'd like to see the term updated, and a new round of tests run, where they take into account packaging, preparation and other environment 'standards' to the western diet. Add BPA from canned foods. Prep a percentage of the food with teflon or similar coated stuff that's damaged and leaching. Pull some of the coatings from french fries boxes and similar packaging that's to prevent sticking - yet as one disgruntled former dupont employee announced, causes cancer. Use some styrofoam that's been melted to show getting food made and put into styrofoam too hot - and also melted via microwave reheating. Make a ton of it in microwaved plastic - as a NY times article laid out years ago this disrupts hormone especially in young. Preservatives and plastic - might as well mix a chunk of that stuff in there as I'm pretty sure most in the west of ingesting good amounts of it. The western diet includes dust, VOCs and other pollution depending on exact circumstances as well really. I wonder how the levels of these things vary from state to state / city to county, etc. Sometimes I think fancy scientists have different grocery store options than the average western calorie consumer and don't take that into consideration.