"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." All magic comes with a price, and the inside of Mylar packaging is absolutely magic. That is, it seems like whenever w

"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." All magic comes with a price, and the inside of Mylar packaging is absolutely magic. That is, it seems like whenever we try to science our way out of some food mistake, we end up making it worse. Don't get me wrong, science has kept a lot of people from starving (although heavy nitrogen fertilizer use and monocultures are a challenge for the environment), but after a certain point, we started losing gains in health because we started optimizing for profit. Now, we put pictures of nature on ultraprocessed food and convince people it's good for them, when all they really need is to eat an apple, which, unfortunately, has no marketing department. Humans are smart, but there is probably no magic bullet. The safest food packaging is the skin on an orange.