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Researchers find link between ultra-processed foods and infertility in US women
- tim-tday 7mo agoBread qualifies as an ultraprocessed food. Perhaps we could pick a better (more useful) way of defining this so people can take reasonable actions. as it stands “ultra possessed” is not useful or actionable.
- testing22321 7mo agoIt absolutely is. Go to the supermarket, only buy things with one ingredient. Eat those. You’re doing pretty good.
- apothegm 7mo agoBread is not an ultra-processed food, though it is a processed food. Wonderbread, on the other hand, is an ultra-processed food. And classified as cake in some European countries.
- superbowl 7mo ago> “Ultra-processed foods often carry chemicals like phthalates, BPA and acrylamides, which can leach from packaging or even from the plastic machinery used during processing,” says co-author Angelina Baric, a graduate student in the Department of Kinesiology. > “These compounds are known to disrupt hormones, and that may be part of why we’re seeing a link." Reminds me of The Plastic Detox on Netflix.