I think we may benefit from drawing a distinction between processed foods as in processed flour and processed foods as in "rolled off an assembly line with adde

I think we may benefit from drawing a distinction between processed foods as in processed flour and processed foods as in "rolled off an assembly line with added sugars, preservatives, etc." My concern is much more for the latter. Paleo-fans may well have a point about whether flour and such is less healthful than raw plant matter. But that difference didn't seem to manifest into a society-wide weight problem until industrially packaged food gained wide circulation. Not even the achievement of food-security or the introduction of 'fast food' aligns with the obesity problem like the massive increase of consumption of ready-to-eat types of foods. Including, notably, chain restaurants peddling industrial foods, displacing local restaurants cooking from scratch (or at lest more often from scratch, or from a place much closer to scratch).