Industrially processed pizzas, cereals, and convenience foods are responsible for a host of diseases. Policymakers and doctors need to lead the food fight.
Industrially processed pizzas, cereals, and convenience foods are responsible for a host of diseases. Policymakers and doctors need to lead the food fight.
Processed is a useless word. You gonna get sick from the pre-chopped broccoli?
Hence, they use the term ultra processed.
and that’s a made up term they forgot (or probably cant) define.
It’s a well defined term:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-processed_food
which the also take some time discussing in the beginning of the article.
To their credit, they say “ultra-processed” to capture this distinction.
They use another vague term with little to no meaningful distinction in order to avoid the actual problem, which in this case is overeating and, in general, is foods having too much sugar, salt, and others things added. Additives that are fine in moderation, but are way higher and outside the daily recommended value in these cases.
It’s a well defined term:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-processed_food
which they also take some time discussing in the beginning of the article.
It absolutely addresses this difference in the first minute or so reading the article.