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Bread is an ultra-processed food.

• anonym29 11mo ago
  Care to engage more substantially than this, or are you just repeating the argument that because UPF is imperfectly defined, that means UPF as a category is absolutely worthless and therefore we should dismiss all precautionary options surrounding any and all UPFs with prejudice?
  • parineum 11mo ago
    "Ultra processing" is corollary to unhealthy food, not causal. It's not the ultra processing that makes it unhealthy. That's the crux of this disagreement. Assuming the relationship and then assuming the next step that the antitheses must be true. Unprocessed foods aren't inherently healthy and ultra processed foods aren't inherently unhealthy, the two things have nothing to do with each other.
    • andsoitis 11mo ago
      > ultra processed foods aren't inherently unhealthy …but they are statistically associated with worse health outcomes. Their nutrient profile, additives’ effects on eating behavior, and how human metabolism responds to engineered foods lead to harm for humans.
      • loeg 11mo ago
        Parent comment is begging you to understand that correlation is not causation. That you infer it to imply causation leaves you less well-informed about the world.
      • parineum 10mo ago
        There are foods which are processed to add nutrients. Imagine I took raw sugar cane then added vitamin d, calcium, vitamin c and some electrolytes to make a sports drink.
  • nradov 11mo ago
    UPF as a category is absolutely worthless. What matters is the contents and effects, not the process used to get there. https://peterattiamd.com/davidallison3/ https://peterattiamd.com/davidallison3/