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An issue is that a meal of donuts and doritos is equally as ultraprocessed as a diet of bleached pasta and jarred tomato sauce with some preservatives. I don't
by UncleMeat 11mo ago
An issue is that a meal of donuts and doritos is equally as ultraprocessed as a diet of bleached pasta and jarred tomato sauce with some preservatives.
I don't have access to the paper, but it'd be interesting to see from the food surveys if the UPF domination is coming from stuff we'd traditionally call "junk food" or from foods that are similar to whole foods made from scratch but with some preservatives added.
- IAmBroom 11mo agoThe main point is: the category is correlated with poor health. That you can narrowly choose items in the category that (you believe) don't correlate with poor health doesn't refute the finding. IOW: you just made the mistake that the comment you are replying to warns you against.
- UncleMeat 11mo agoThat's not just the main point. The article references three papers, two of which are making policy arguments about UPFs. If we are going to propose interventions then it is rather important to understand these details.