@@homiesenatepHumans are easy to exploit. Also, these processed foods are often way cheaper than healthy whole foods. On the flip side, corporations know all of this and they only want one thing: profit. They will cut corners anywhere they can and bribe the government to keep shut about safety concerns. The marriage of these two is what led to our current mess
It is addictive and will create a repeat customer. That was their only goal. It had nothing to do with sustenance which is crazy in the “food” category.
fun fact: they did people and the government just ignored it and continue to ignore it. The FDA has been failing America for a very VERY long time now.
Absolutely. Most don't even understand. And we are all sick, overweight, owe medical bills. Who has their hands where? You can't take the money when ya die people.
Pretty lame that cheese is thrown in the same category as sugar Cheese is not ultra processed and it is very healthy to eat!! Don’t listen to there news people they have no idea wat they speak of.
It’s legally written into law in the law that requires corporations to act like obligated sociopaths that must maximize shareholder profits amoungst all else
That's the key phrase, "if they actually cared." Since most of us pay for our healthcare, the government has no incentive to actually care. In fact, a reduction of the lifespan of people on Medicaid is beneficial, since it saves money. They don't even care about reducing infant mortality.
Profits over people. Coin over communities. Wealth over health. That's just how global corporations roll, baby! 💪😎✌️ Gotta make money in order to become a zillionaire. Little else matters.
You know what’s funny to me? That in itself is sometimes referred to as a biblical generation. Think Moses with is real in the desert for 40 years timeline. So basically it took going thru an entire generation to look at and say, Hey let’s stop doing this thing it’s not a good idea 🤦♀️
It's funny how alot of these foods that have been around for decades were actually made different when they started It's over time that they changed due to change in management or ownership so along the line the recipes changed when they started adding more ingredients I watch the things that made America on the history channel and one of the themes was foods that built America and boy aside from what I already know about foods I still was amazed at what this show had to teach me When I was a kid we didn't eat a bunch of frozen foods or ultra processed manufacture foods And at 40 I still eat more like the older days Fresher foods The only process that comes across my table is the cleaning/chopping method of produce and the cutting process for meats I prefer cooking at home But when we decide to go out we limit fast food Not a common thing for us And restaurants we don't hit a lot of major chains The mom and pop places serve better foods
@googleuser2480 They already are. That is why food isn't lasting as long because some of the preservatives were taken out because of health nuts. Food had started to taste worse because some of the key ingredients that made it taste good was deemed unhealthy. So, what now? Are we supposed to eat cardboard because it's healthier for you? I mean, come on man.
@@johnedelmann6711 so we want to take chemicals out of food and you think it’s cardboard? You eat that crap of quality food? What about a nice home cooked meal?
That would literally be life changing. Nutrient deficiencies would disappear basically overnight. But, it will never happen in our country, sadly. The next best thing is education. Teach people about these things.
@@EggEnjoyer Back in the 1940s (when the corporate rot had already begun) the USA tried to ban European dairy products because Europeans at the time didn't pasteurize their dairy.
The veggies and fruits sections in grocery markets should be much larger and unprocessed food should be much CHEAPER not more expensive than junk food.
Education and labelling are key. Are broccoli, cabbages, rice or green beans "expensive" in your country? For the price of 1 Big Mac I could feed a house of 6 with vegetables. What's expensive is high quality protein and fish but the cost of good ingredients is better than diabetes.
Yeah, but we need protein in our diets. I need more than veggies to power through my day. I have to start my day with eggs & fruit. I couldn't just eat the fruit or I'd be starving in an hour. Nuts are good for that too but can be expensive. I know everyone is different but I have to have protein.
Dont buy into that organic bs. Just get regular veggies and you will find it is super cheap. Dried rice and beans are cheap and if you can bake then you can have any kind of badass bread. It takes work but you are worth it as we all are. My sister loves her bread machine so even if you cant or dont want to bake you can make it work.
No. Not impossible. A person needs to retrain their habit/s. I did at beginning of covid ... first basically keto diet for 4, 5 months and lost about 45+ lbs. Have kept it off. It feels 'right' to watch/cut out sugars, bad carbs ... esp. oils. (Only have good olive and avocado oils) I basically 'fast' around 18 hrs a day. Feels right.
@@HadrianGuardiolaNon-organic fruits and vegetables are full of pesticides, some of which are carcinogenic. There is a "dirty dozen" list that shows the foods that absorb the most pesticides, some of which include strawberries, apples, spinach, peppers, and green beans. If someone can't afford organic, they should at least be mindful of what they are eating. It's not BS.
@@HadrianGuardiolaI agree with everything you said except the organic part. The farming methods are COMPLETELY different between organic and non-organic. The biggest difference is that non-organic foods are sprayed with roundup (glyphosate) which is carcinogenic and glyphosate is banned in Europe because of that reason and many others too.... So definitely buy organic if you can but if you don't it's not the end of the world just don't make it a consistent habit.
Seriously! This is the worst description of ultra processed foods ever. I’m still waiting for examples of ingredients and why specifically they do us harm. If that’s known - ban them!
Because she's not a television host or reporter. She does research. Her time is valuable and she cares more about what she is doing than how she looks. Really wish I could be like that.
i was wondering the same thing lol. it was like they pulled a random person off the street and asked them to give a few statements on a topic they barely knew anything about.
@@oldpotatojuiceif something is your specialty you should be able to talk about it confidently. If she isn’t comfortable speaking on camera they should have found a different representative to share the message. Someone who has poor speaking abilities distracts from the entire segment of the show.
@@oldpotatojuiceThe issue with how she answered the questions was not about her looks nor the amount of time she took to answer the questions. Not many, if at all, were objective answers given. Everything was some vague description. Why not list the ingredients we should be avoiding if that’s what she’s trying to tell us?
THIS. This was my wake up call and I will never go back. In the future if I can tolerate a bit of sugar again, I will never turn to ultra-processed desserts. Everything I make will be in my own kitchen. My body, my rules. I was so angry when I realized that the additives in these 'foods' are there solely for profit, not nutrition/wellbeing, and I was the one who ended up paying the piper.
True, some people have given me flak for encouraging whole foods over processed foods, even shut down the possibility of these processed foods causing health problems
You can eat real food, it's called go to the store, buy whole foods and cook it yourself. This is a lazy statement. You just somehow want healthy food you can stick in a microwave.
This happened to me over the 4th of July weekend. I went food shopping with my friend who was the host this year, and she kept saying I was "rich" or "only ate the good stuff. I explained to her that yeah, it's cheap now, but in 30 years, you'll be paying the hospital bills or dead. All I did was buy simple ingredient food. For example, she wanted blue bonnet "butter," and I said no, don't get that, and I picked up the store brand butter, and I showed her the label of what's ACTUALLY supposed to be butter. Just salt and cream, and she gave me this look 😒. All I could do was laugh about it. Same for the burgers, she picked out these crazy patties with like 15 ingredients that she couldn't even understand. I told her, "Put that back" and I turned around and grabbed a family size pack of 80/20 and I told her she's gonna love the smash burgers I'll make way better. She gave me that same look 😒. I think in an effort to save money people like her resort to those "foods" but they don't realize that real ACTUAL food is cheaper and better, they just have to learn how to prep and cook. The next day, she apologized to me because she thought she offended me. I felt really bad because there wasn't any reason to apologize. I just wanted everyone to eat better, even if it was just a holiday.
Yess! I have been in similar situations! I do eat real food lol I value what I eat over people’s opinions of me, thankfully, but people will automatically call you orthorexic for not wanting to eat ultra processed foods or things banned in other countries! 🙄
My health was ruined by this trash. Millennials grew up eating Lunchables and Kid Cuisines and HandiSnacks and all that trash. We were drinking 3-liters of soda on the daily. I'm 40, now, with diabetes and hypertension, all that good stuff. Addiction is no joke. And these are scientifically-designed hyper-palatable ultra-processed foods
Cutting way back on ultra-processed/fast food is one of the best things I ever did for my depression. In retrospect, my worst episodes coincided with when I ate that junk for most of my meals. Since I started making a lot more of my own food from fresh ingredients, I've improved my mood, lost weight, lowered my blood pressure, saved money and found joy in cooking as a hobby. A healthier diet requires more time but is worth it as an investment in yourself.
You are now living a healthy, quality life with less stressors because you won’t have to be dealing with a bunch of diseases due to poor nutrition and/or toxic poisoning! You’ve traded “test tube experiments” for REAL food! Good for you! I wish you a long, healthy, happy life!👍
Or you could just move to literally anywhere else besides the U.S.A where it’s actually *illegal to do this* Respectfully, The fact that you ppl just put up with this stuff is kind of insane. Like, I’ve met Vietnam & Korean Vets that left America 20+ years ago and they genuinely have been happier for it. Idk why more of you don’t follow there example. One of my older friend Tom (Vietnam - vet) was on all sorts of stuff for high blood pressure & PTSD. About a month after leaving the U.S.A and moving to Thailand he was a fully functional & HAPPY human being again. He literally told me “it wasn’t till I left that I realized, all of my problems were environmental.” Idk man it seams to me that you guys have been getting treated like Guinea pigs for so long that you think it’s normal. It’s not. Leave that dying country behind before it’s too late.
@@Marryjanesbud If given a choice of where and how to spawn in life, I might've chosen a different country and definitely wouldn't have chosen to grow up poor/black in the USA. But that's the hand I was dealt. And relocating to another country of my choosing just isn't a viable option for me. You're right, though, about our unhealthy food culture. It's a glaring symptom of corporate regulatory capture that pervades American society.
It truly is sinister that the foods your most likley to reach for when depressed make you more depressed. If that isn’t unconventional class warfare I don’t know what is.
Food and health companiies blame the consumer, that they should eat in "moderation." Meanwhile, those same food companies formulate the food to be as addicting as possible. It's shameful.
Overpopulation and an increasing consumerism lifestyle depleted our naturally grown resources that caused the rise in prices...allowing food industries to take advantage to be incentivize in creating more ultraprocessed junk to feed the masses, regardless of public health
The problem isn't that whole foods need to be cheaper... it's that people need to place greater value on their health. People need to stop thinking of the cheaper stuff as "food". If you compare them by nutritional value and the cost of eventual healthcare you'll see that the "cheaper" food isn't actually cheaper. You're paying less money because there's less "food" in what you're purchasing. Everything you can eat shouldn't be thought of as "food". Also, there used to be classes in school called "Home Economics". If you teach people how to use money effectively in regards to health and nutrition you'll have people who know how to acquire better value for their money and how to preserve and extend the value of what they purchase. My grandmother did it, as a widow, raising her grandchild and I never went hungry or had less than a full plate of food. Plus there was a network of family, relatives and neighbors and a garden tended to faithfully. There are many controllable variables to the home making equation that people today tend to ignore and focus on something "somebody else" should do to make things easier for them.
@@kellysnyclife663 not everyone has large enough tracts of land to grow all of their food, Kelly. A tomato plant or 2 sure, but you need at least 1 acre to supply you with food all year long. Being from NYC, you’d think you’d know that.
@@cameronf3343Exactly, listen to professionals not quacks and Facebook. The idea all meals have to be made from scratch at home is nonsense. A good fresh tuna salad is a good tuna salad whether you made it or not.
Key word she missed is wholefoods. Healthy food is healthy whether you make it yourself or go to a salad bar with good olive oil, or order that delivered. "You need to make everyeal from scratch to have healthy eating habits" is the wrong message and will turn some people away.
you can not sue the FDA for working as intendet and unfortunately the US is not alone with this problem. The whole world is drowning in unhealthy products. Or do you know a single country without coca cola? Yes the US is one of worst, even your so called bread is sweater then any cake I would eat... but the rest of the world is catching up fast.
@@warehouse1429 the reason processed foods are really popular because they're cheap and last a long time therefore if they stopped being sold and people would starve specifically poor people
@@notanaftagent8444 Indeed, but.... They need to ban these chemicals when there are safer alternatives for preservatives... They just use what kills us and they know it and don't care lol. There are other ways that would cost the same, and could turn a profit. but nah it's to hard. rather make country sick
@@notanaftagent8444no one would starve, they could easily move all the subsidies to real food instead of poison. That processed food would be incredibly expensive if they didn’t subsidize their ability to make it. The amount of corn grown in this country just so they can put corn syrup in nearly everything we eat is unreal. And that is highly subsidized with billions of our tax dollars going to the corporations poisoning us.
She was so hell bent on trying not to offend viewers on their food choices that she was completely useless in sounding the alarm. What a waste of the network’s time and money to present this failed message!
@@duckmercy11 Eating healthy isn't necessarily more expensive. It's an illusion. You can buy a ready made meal for cheaper than buying all of the ingredients that went into it, but if you were to buy all the ingredients then you would get more than one meal. Processed food is marketed as tasty, cheap, filling and even touted as 'healthy' because it has eggs or meat or something green resembling a vegetable in it. People on a low income buy it because often fresh food is not available where they live, they are rushed for time, they might not have cooking equipment, etc. but also because processed food is made to look appealing, quick and easy. If you cut animal products out of your diet, you food bill will be a lot lower - beans and lentils are cheaper than meat and dairy. We found this out quite by accident when we decided to go vegetarian years ago. Our food bill went down significantly even though we didn't eat 'expensive' meat before that.
We can TALK about this all day long… but WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT? The food industry will turn a deaf ear on all of this… and the healthcare industry will be waiting on the long lines of people who have poor health from the over-processed food we have in the US.
When I was growing up, it was unusual to see an obese person. Now, so many of us are obese and unwell. Finally, a scientist is addressing the awful quality of our food. Thank you!
I used to see way more obese people when I was younger tbh. Now people are just fatter in general but not as big. If I'm not mistaken obesity has been in a constant rise since the 70s, until recently. It has apparently plateaued overall in the USA with pockets of communities having steady decline of obesity.
I look at photos back from the 60s, 70s and even 80s and obesity was uncommon. This recent era of overweight being normalized is ending because of how unhealthy it has been proven to be and the financial strain on Medicaid, Medicare and medical costs.
@@Sourwhatup If it plateaued it’s because official estimates say 42% of the US is classifiably obese. 2/5 of a population being obese isn’t something to accept or think “eh at least it’s not getting worse tho”
Listening to her speak was like torture. I can't even share this with my family to FURTHER sound the alarm to them because she "ummmed" the whole interview. We need a re-do!
@Tiazz. She was just unprepared and has a stuttering problem. Nothing more. It was painful to listen to her, even though I feel bad that she's stuttering. That's not her fault, but the lack of research is.
Yes. Whoever picked this woman to represent science and health must have awful judgement, possibly more harm than good re: optics. Rhonda Patrick makes clear intelligence arguments. This was a train wreck.
@@chromberries7329 you can eat an apple or orange or pepper right away. Good bread is also "ready to eat" but not as unhealthy (most bread is made with chemicals that do not even need to be listed in the ingredients these days) the description "anything with more than 5 ingredients" or "anything containing ingredients you do not recognize without a degree in food chemistry" fits a lot better.
Trish was completely unprepared for this interview, epic fail. He asked her what kind of foods people should be taking out of their fridges and pantries, and all she could say is ‘crisps’ and the name of one additive..
@@WestCoast999he also asked her the difference between unprocessed, processed, and ultra processed, she only compares unprocessed and ultra. More “umm” in her speech than some actual information
You can't blame corporates for everything. They're predatorily ...no doubt about it but one's own acknowledging that there is a problem and work at it is what you need.
1:40 got me messed up. They're not hyper palatable and tasty, they're what we're fed and raised on. Eat good foods for 3 months and get your sugar needs from fruits. I speak from experience, those foods you pick up will taste good and the junk food you thought was your favorite for 20 years will taste absolutely horrific. And that's good.
@@hustlecrowe9440 Definition of palatable: adjective adjective: palatable (of food or drink) pleasant to taste. "a very palatable local red wine" It literally has nothing to do with edibility, it’s a descriptor for taste.
They are tasty though. You can eat low sugar daily and some junk food will still be tasty, delicious and so on. It's literally engineered to be that way. And that's what got it to reach the 73% of the food supply as mentioned in the video
@@zerocal76 Like I said I speak from experience, and I only did it after many of my friends & only sibling did it and said the same thing. Wanted to see if it’s true or not, and it is. All junk food tastes like how sewers smell after you’ve trained your taste buds to only like quality foods. There is zero rebuttal to that fact and I’m glad about it. Give it a shot man.
Shocked this was allowed to be aired. I'm sure the major companies that supplies these ultra processed foods advertise with CBS and will gladly pull those ads over something like this.
YES! I've been saying this since 1970! When I worked in the hospital in the mid 70's I had many arguments with staff about hyper-processed foods. I was the only person on staff who didn't eat the hospital food and was constantly bringing up nutritional needs of our patients. I'm so happy that 50 years later finally medicine is embracing this. I hope people will take heed to the warning labels, especially children and pregnant women
Exactly. I love that you knew it & was trying for that long to change their minds. People only listen when science backs it up. Especially with peer reviewed sources.
I'm so glad you advocated for them! It's a step in the right direction. Our voices are powerful and the more people that do that can make even more of a difference. When I was working in a recovery center, I was very adamant about them making sure the food they were buying were healthy. It wasn't always the case, but I brought up the types of ingredients and how it would affect their gut health as well as mental health. The reality is if they really wanted them to improve overall, then they would no longer be a customer. The thing is placing money over peoples lives is something America needs to work on. We would be thrive if given the opportunity as a society and within the community if they valued health.
That was the worst I've seen. She couldn't tell me any information. It was like what do I say? Horrible reporting and preparation. You have 10 seconds to talk about this and go!
@@unadomandaperte Uhm, are you saying that they are just lying about ultra-processed foods being harmful? That there is no proof of this? Tell me you are American without telling me you are American...
yeah terrible! "if it has more than 5 ingredients "? "if you dont recognize the name"? what kind of nonsense was that. We get it that ultra processed foods are unhealthy, but geez - clearer identification would have been more useful for the audience
@@medium-old Actually, if you check ingredients on food packages, then you'll realise that what she's saying tends to be a good place to start. If the list is long for what looks like a simple product, just put it back. If there are words that take you a few minutes to be able to pronounce, then chances are that's not food. Another good marker is: if I made this would I have put these ingredients in it? or do I know where to buy all of the ingredients listed? The woman's delivery was not smooth, but not everyone is good at explaining. The reporter should have taken that into consideration and asked her the questions differently.
Completely agree! The “more than five ingredients” part was the most stupid thing I’ve heard, anyone who’s ever made soup, bolognese, stews from scratch knows they have more than five ingredients, heck, salads have more than five ingredients 🙄 I agree ultra-processed foods are terrible for your health, but this “expert” was awful.
The sad reason why this issue wont gain any traction is because it would negatively impact the economy and politicians pockets. If the government intervenes for us to eat healthy, the pharmaceutical and medical industry would shrink, the middle of a supermarket, convenience stores like 7-11... too much money involved
You guys have never been sued before. If you think these big corporations will not take every cent you'll ever work for with a defamation lawsuit, think again. I doubt she has hundreds of thousands to go to court and hire lawyers
Remember Trump ROLLED BACK health regulations and practically said he didn’t care what your kid ate or how the food tastes somehow like steak. Texas LOVED this in 2016.
I remember in the early 70's that bread would " mold" if not eaten fairly quickly ( 1 - 2 weeks??)...A couple of years ago, upon returning home from a 2 month long RV trip, I noticed some bread in the pantry that I had forgotten about. It looked as fresh as the day I bought it over 2 MONTHS EARILIER!!! The amount of preservatives in that is SCARY!! I threw it out!!!
@@milktar2182 unfortunately even the bread in a country like Germany these days is produced with the help of chemical processes that replaced the natural fermentation of the yeast, just to save time. As a result many people end up suffering from digestive issues. Not saying you can not buy good bread in Germany but it is far from common. The bread in the US does not deserve to be called that, it is closer to Cake then actual bread.
There are a lot of food additives that are banned in most other countries in the world but not here. The good thing is, the ingredients are listed so consumers can make an educated choice.
@@davehugstreesHave you heard of secret GRAS? Not all ingredients in food have been reviewed by the FDA, and are in umbrella terms in the ingredients list so we don't know what they are either. It's a shady business.
@@TheDragonSeer how so? Educate people and let them make their own choices. The only issue I have is that people are mislead by intentionally misleading advertising. If someone wants to drink gallons of liquor a month, that is their choice. If someone wants to live off nothing but chemical flavorings and artificial preservatives, that is also their choice.
someday, the idea that hospitals served processed food and had soda vending machines will seem as bizarre as the idea took used to be able to smoke in hospital waiting rooms.
Too bad the woman was not better prepared on what she wanted to say. Her poor delivery of the important information, greatly impaired her getting her point across.🙃
The processed food company’s have been unregulated for far too long. This is a health crisis that has been increasing every decade since the 1950’s. Doctors need to be more educated on nutrition and less relying on drugs.
cause europe does not have processed food... no Coce, no MC donalds, no Burgerking, no Oreos and other junkfood snacks. It is true EU standart for food is better than the US but the difference is only very marginally.
The problem here is that their definition of food "processing" is not meaningful. They are not defined by their nutritional value, but literally by the process by which they come into existance. I dont see the problem with food being made by means of industrial production so long as the food is proven to be safe to eat, and either provides actual nutritional value or is clearly advertised as a treat with little to no nutritional value. We should not be banning any product simply because it is unhealthy in excess. People should have the right to enjoy what they enjoy. It's up to the individual to make appropriate choices for their own health, and up to the manufacturer to provide sufficient information for the individual to make an informed decision.
There is no way on earth all of us could begin to afford to farm!!! Yikes!!! I live in a farming community. Farmers shell out WAY more money than I could EVER afford and don't make nearly as much money back unfortunately.
@@jennifer7648 you can grow all the food you need with 200-300 sq ft of garden per person. It can be done with hand tools for little money. No need to do large scale farming.
@@jennifer7648 I mean if you can’t have one on your property then work for one. And just get some pots and start growing your own herbs. That’s what I want to do…. Seasoning is so expensive
@@jennifer7648at one point in time everyone had a small farm. It's critical to survival. It does have to big a large farm just enough to help reduce dependency, lower market cost, and increase self sufficiency. Everyone should have a small garden, chickens, etc
The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when an individual, who is communicating with others, assumes that others have information that is only available to themselves, assuming they all share a background and understanding. This bias is also called by some authors the curse of expertise.
There really isn’t much that you can’t make in your kitchen. Cereal, ice cream, crackers, jerky, yogurt, Oreos,… you really can do it all with a little practice, and believe it or not, it usually tastes better. (Not to mention the smug satisfaction it will bring you 😏)
And cheaper than store bought. Over the years, we invested in food processing equipment to make food ourselves. Meat grinder, large stand mixer, good knives, meat slicer, pasta machine, canning equipment and supplies. Saves tons of money in the end and easily paid for themselves in short order.
@@lucycan6363Don't listen. This isn't a conspiracy. It's all about profit. Fatty, unhealthy foods taste good. People will buy what tastes good, especially if they've done it since childhood.
@@Paul-tp9yh But they don't taste good at all! At least when you step away from it for a little while and learn to cook real, home-made meals. There are a lot of awesome recipes out there! When you've done it for a while, and you go back to the processed crap, you realize how nasty and fake it tastes! How oily or overly sweet it is. Nasty! You can taste the chemicals and crap they put into it. Especially If you also do some fasting on the regular (which will save you a lot of money, AND heal your body, and help you lose weight). I live and eat healthy as someone with less money than most, and I have really good health, and people think I am in my mid-twenties even though I will be 40 next year. I feel sorry for those who don't know how easy it really is to prioritize your health and food choices once you know how great it feels. I'm never sick. Don't spend money on medical bills or health-related issues, cause I don't have them. People just need to wake up and see that there is a reason Americans are some of the most obese and unhealthy people on earth!
Check out the small section of your grocery store called produce. It's the one without all the processed crap. There are fresh fruits and vegetables there. Good luck on the price of them!
Mmm people say europe is more healthy than america but it’s never true, they may have a couple things banned that we consume on a daily basis here but europe still has additives and sugars and emulsifiers within their grocery stores as well
Yeah, those warning labels on the cigarettes have really deterred a lot of people. Just the other day, I seen someone about to buy a pack of cigarettes and they seen the warning and were like “oh my gosh! I had no idea these weren’t healthy!” They immediately put them down and grabbed a carrot
First of all use better grammar. Saying or writing “I seen” instead of the correct “I saw” makes you sound uneducated causing others to not take you seriously. Second, think a little before you express your opinion. Smoking rates in the US have decreased from 42% in the 1960s to an all time low of 11% in 2023. Strategies such as tobacco tax, advertising bans, warning labels and bans on smoking indoors have all worked successfully to decrease cigarette smoking. Your opinion is as important as anyone else’s. However, to be taken seriously, express your opinion with correct grammar and try to be logical, otherwise you come across as ignorant (and I’m sure you are not ignorant).
They act like this is new news. Food companies have been paying off testing results for years to lie to us and tell us that these things aren’t harmful and arent addictive. I’ve been cooking from scratch all my life, and I plan on keeping it that way. However, even I still have weaknesses for these things.
Have you heard of secret GRAS? Food manufacturers can stuff ingredients into food without the FDA having passed eyes on them. What are they called? They're nested under "spices" and "artifical flavors." Not everything is listed on the ingredients label.
@tradeprosper5002 Yeah, Aldi is actually a good place to shop for that. You still have to read some of their food though because it's not all good. But a surprising amount doesn't have corn syrup, artifical dyes, etc.
@@TheDragonSeerYes, "generally recognized as safe" -- understandable for some substances, not for others. NF labels may not list every ingredient, but generally, using them can help one deduce whether or not something's okay to eat. It's pretty rare for a product (especially an ultra processed one) to have only unassuming-sounding ingredients listed.
Grocery stores have entire isles with sugary sodas, candy, cookies, chips, snack cakes, frozen pizza, high-carb frozen meals and ice cream. It’s wall-to-wall garbage everywhere you look. I’ve seen obese people in there perusing the ice cream isle and it’s sickening. Most of what’s wrong with public is right in front of us. All junk food should be taxed to make healthier options cheaper.
Most of my life ate real food in Europe I dislike fast foods All my life in Our country of America we have the Best Restaurants in the world but most people are addited to fast foods so hospitals and doctors can have a lot of patients well Now We are the one or first less healthy country in the world with more deseases specially cancer and aldaimers people in the Universe to make Worst Now in few years before they started putting like a glue in most cooked foods and my sherbet yesterday had litle pieces of glue that I did not eat my papaya had pieces o hard and soft material most fruits and vegetables are being done in nursery s and given liquid with glue so it is there They want Us DEAD and eliminate because Food is a daily thing no more FBI or CIA we will drop dead to their pleasure
I have the point of view that: 1) Its the industry/producers fault to provide those kind of unhealthy foods 2) its the consumers fault too...ITS ALWAYS A CHOICE TO BUY/EAT IT! But honestly banning certain ingredients would be far more rational way...to get the obesity handled properly.
I don't think anyone is suggesting that the goal is to avoid them completely, but that it shouldn't make up 50%+ a person's regular diet. A lot of these "convenience" meals are at the inconvenience of our long-term health.
Did you even watch, 70% of grocery stores have heavily processed foods, and more often than not the “healthy” options are 2x more expensive than the other. It’s not the consumers fault, it never was and I think we need to stop blaming consumers for the greed of the industry
Including bread and yogurt? Deeming so many foods as ultraprocessed is an overly broad, vague categorization.... Should instead be based on the health of the additives used as well as amount of added sugar etc
That's the point of the video. Too much of the US food system is engineered in factories to make us sick. It's so pervasive because companies are really aggressive about selling us unhealthy food. If you read the ingredients labels looking for what the researcher described, even the bread and yogurt, you'll find tons of questionable ingredients. I only found one loaf of bread I'm comfortable buying at the store now and I completely stopped buying yogurt (I just make my own).
@@duckmercy11 Ah right so my organic, sprouted whole wheat bread I eat with tons of fibre and non-added vitamins and minerals is "ultra-processed" junk food right...?
@@AscheOfTheLake That would actually mean something if America was any of those other two. And yes, they have a choice to stop patronizing companies that raised their prices after the pandemic.
My Arizona brand tea says "100% natural" on the can, but looking at the ingredients it contains a blend of various black teas, high fructose corn syrup, citric acid, and natural flavors, with no indication of which flavors they used. So in other words, added sugar and flavoring is considered 100% natural. 😐
Natural is a meaningless word in marketing. Unfortunately billion dollar networks of corporate lobbys threaten to pull funding if advertising is challenged.
The terms all natural, low sugar, low carb, low fat, healthy, whole grain, high fiber, with ingredients that dont back up that claim are all blatant lies and the companies know this. I agree with processed foods coming with health warnings. Companies should not be allowed to make false claims on a package. I guarantee the CEOs would refuse to eat it.
My thought is… if it is so unhealthy it should not be manufactured in the first place.
Yes, thank you.
Seriously
Either the bosses had evil intent, or we all just love junk food so much that we forgot how bad it is
@@homiesenatepHumans are easy to exploit. Also, these processed foods are often way cheaper than healthy whole foods. On the flip side, corporations know all of this and they only want one thing: profit. They will cut corners anywhere they can and bribe the government to keep shut about safety concerns. The marriage of these two is what led to our current mess
It is addictive and will create a repeat customer. That was their only goal. It had nothing to do with sustenance which is crazy in the “food” category.
Instead of warning labels how about just getting these ingredients banned like in other countries.
Because they want to warn you about it but they want to keep on selling it
Youre going to have to fight billions worth of lobbying that will make sure that never happens.
Profits before people “ the market will regulate itself”
Exactly
Bingo
These warnings and bans should have come a long time ago.
fun fact: they did people and the government just ignored it and continue to ignore it. The FDA has been failing America for a very VERY long time now.
Absolutely. Most don't even understand. And we are all sick, overweight, owe medical bills. Who has their hands where?
You can't take the money when ya die people.
Pretty lame that cheese is thrown in the same category as sugar
Cheese is not ultra processed and it is very healthy to eat!!
Don’t listen to there news people they have no idea wat they speak of.
@@TiffyBackupI think they mean Velvetta, which is ultra processed. Hell, I don’t even know if that stuff is even cheese now that I think about it! 😂
It's hitting there kids now so it's important all a sudden...
BAN it!!! Stop putting profits before people!!!
People are the ones buying it.
@@ArthurHuizar Because these food additives are addictive and hijack our brains to desire them.
@@ArthurHuizarbecause they can’t buy anything else when these products dominate the shelves
@@ArthurHuizarPeople keep buying hard drugs I guess we should just let them
It’s legally written into law in the law that requires corporations to act like obligated sociopaths that must maximize shareholder profits amoungst all else
If they actually cared they’d first stop subsidizing corn syrup and they’d ban the pesticides Europe bans, just for a start.
That's the key phrase, "if they actually cared." Since most of us pay for our healthcare, the government has no incentive to actually care. In fact, a reduction of the lifespan of people on Medicaid is beneficial, since it saves money. They don't even care about reducing infant mortality.
This will more than likely never happen in the States. Very great start to begin with, though.
Nice example of an all or nothing fallacy! Anyway some European countries are adding warnings to ultra processed food. So why not start here??
If project 2025 happens, you will be eating garbage.
Profits over people. Coin over communities. Wealth over health. That's just how global corporations roll, baby! 💪😎✌️ Gotta make money in order to become a zillionaire. Little else matters.
Geez, it only took them four decades to start doing this
More?
It took that long for them to address it. Now it’ll take 40 years to pass it.
Makes you wonder why now. Probably so they can have an excuse to exact more taxes to "help us"
And the sad thing is they knew this 100 years ago
You know what’s funny to me? That in itself is sometimes referred to as a biblical generation. Think Moses with is real in the desert for 40 years timeline.
So basically it took going thru an entire generation to look at and say, Hey let’s stop doing this thing it’s not a good idea 🤦♀️
Ban it. Force companies to change the food we eat. That would be amazing.
It's funny how alot of these foods that have been around for decades were actually made different when they started
It's over time that they changed due to change in management or ownership so along the line the recipes changed when they started adding more ingredients
I watch the things that made America on the history channel and one of the themes was foods that built America and boy aside from what I already know about foods I still was amazed at what this show had to teach me
When I was a kid we didn't eat a bunch of frozen foods or ultra processed manufacture foods
And at 40 I still eat more like the older days
Fresher foods
The only process that comes across my table is the cleaning/chopping method of produce and the cutting process for meats
I prefer cooking at home
But when we decide to go out we limit fast food
Not a common thing for us
And restaurants we don't hit a lot of major chains
The mom and pop places serve better foods
@googleuser2480 They already are.
That is why food isn't lasting as long because some of the preservatives were taken out because of health nuts.
Food had started to taste worse because some of the key ingredients that made it taste good was deemed unhealthy.
So, what now? Are we supposed to eat cardboard because it's healthier for you? I mean, come on man.
@@johnedelmann6711 so we want to take chemicals out of food and you think it’s cardboard? You eat that crap of quality food? What about a nice home cooked meal?
That would literally be life changing. Nutrient deficiencies would disappear basically overnight. But, it will never happen in our country, sadly. The next best thing is education. Teach people about these things.
I 100% agree, we value instant profit over future investing into ours (children’s)nations health, Happy 4th.
Our food is banned in other countries. Imagine that
Some of our bread is classified as cake in Europe.
like what?
@@mikewhocheeseharry5292 for example The Heinz ketchup in the States is different than the Heinz ketchup in Europe.
There are European and Asian foods banned in America. It goes both ways
@@EggEnjoyer Back in the 1940s (when the corporate rot had already begun) the USA tried to ban European dairy products because Europeans at the time didn't pasteurize their dairy.
The veggies and fruits sections in grocery markets should be much larger and unprocessed food should be much CHEAPER not more expensive than junk food.
Education and labelling are key. Are broccoli, cabbages, rice or green beans "expensive" in your country?
For the price of 1 Big Mac I could feed a house of 6 with vegetables.
What's expensive is high quality protein and fish but the cost of good ingredients is better than diabetes.
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@@bardsamok9221 are that the only veggies you want to eat? That is depressive. And rice is processed again.
Ultra processed foods should be labeled, and not available for purchase via EBT. (A label system of green, yellow, and red stickers)
Yeah, but we need protein in our diets. I need more than veggies to power through my day. I have to start my day with eggs & fruit. I couldn't just eat the fruit or I'd be starving in an hour. Nuts are good for that too but can be expensive. I know everyone is different but I have to have protein.
The FDA is a joke
food and drug administration its called it for a reason, there is absolutely no need to have food and drugs in the same category.
Jesus loves you all.
@@Buddy_WolfeJesus is worthless
@Buddy_Wolfe No, he doesn't. He isn't real.
@@Buddy_WolfeFood and Drugs two things that only use is to be consumed. Pretty obvious why it’s the same agency.
@@wolf17238He loves me and regardless what you say, He ❤️’s you too!
73% of the food supply is shocking numbers! No wonder it's hard, or nearly impossible, to have a healthy diet.
Dont buy into that organic bs. Just get regular veggies and you will find it is super cheap. Dried rice and beans are cheap and if you can bake then you can have any kind of badass bread. It takes work but you are worth it as we all are. My sister loves her bread machine so even if you cant or dont want to bake you can make it work.
No. Not impossible. A person needs to retrain their habit/s. I did at beginning of covid ... first basically keto diet for 4, 5 months and lost about 45+ lbs. Have kept it off. It feels 'right' to watch/cut out sugars, bad carbs ... esp. oils. (Only have good olive and avocado oils) I basically 'fast' around 18 hrs a day. Feels right.
It's not hard at all. Just go to a grocery store and stay out of the cookie aisle.
@@HadrianGuardiolaNon-organic fruits and vegetables are full of pesticides, some of which are carcinogenic. There is a "dirty dozen" list that shows the foods that absorb the most pesticides, some of which include strawberries, apples, spinach, peppers, and green beans. If someone can't afford organic, they should at least be mindful of what they are eating. It's not BS.
@@HadrianGuardiolaI agree with everything you said except the organic part. The farming methods are COMPLETELY different between organic and non-organic. The biggest difference is that non-organic foods are sprayed with roundup (glyphosate) which is carcinogenic and glyphosate is banned in Europe because of that reason and many others too.... So definitely buy organic if you can but if you don't it's not the end of the world just don't make it a consistent habit.
3 minutes of air time for your health. That's all you'll get folks. Now let's run a commercial for McDonalds
are u by any chance over 45?
This is the exact reason why the human body going through complications
Why did the lady being interviewed seem like she was just asked to appear on the show 5 min before it aired lol?
Seriously! This is the worst description of ultra processed foods ever. I’m still waiting for examples of ingredients and why specifically they do us harm. If that’s known - ban them!
Because she's not a television host or reporter. She does research. Her time is valuable and she cares more about what she is doing than how she looks. Really wish I could be like that.
i was wondering the same thing lol. it was like they pulled a random person off the street and asked them to give a few statements on a topic they barely knew anything about.
@@oldpotatojuiceif something is your specialty you should be able to talk about it confidently. If she isn’t comfortable speaking on camera they should have found a different representative to share the message. Someone who has poor speaking abilities distracts from the entire segment of the show.
@@oldpotatojuiceThe issue with how she answered the questions was not about her looks nor the amount of time she took to answer the questions. Not many, if at all, were objective answers given. Everything was some vague description. Why not list the ingredients we should be avoiding if that’s what she’s trying to tell us?
Anxiety and mental illness is linked to poor eating habits
Poor gut health
THIS. This was my wake up call and I will never go back. In the future if I can tolerate a bit of sugar again, I will never turn to ultra-processed desserts. Everything I make will be in my own kitchen. My body, my rules. I was so angry when I realized that the additives in these 'foods' are there solely for profit, not nutrition/wellbeing, and I was the one who ended up paying the piper.
@@KtotheGsalmonellosis, balantidiasis, e coli overgrowth
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@@KtotheGyes
It's sick how money rules. This shouldn't even be a debate... feeding people poison for profit is wrong.
The illuminati would disagree. Knock it off....LMBO!
It’s about time 😭 I’m sick of being treated like I’m crazy for wanting to eat real food
Who is treating you like you're crazy for wanting to eat real food?! Sounds preposterous.
True, some people have given me flak for encouraging whole foods over processed foods, even shut down the possibility of these processed foods causing health problems
You can eat real food, it's called go to the store, buy whole foods and cook it yourself. This is a lazy statement. You just somehow want healthy food you can stick in a microwave.
This happened to me over the 4th of July weekend. I went food shopping with my friend who was the host this year, and she kept saying I was "rich" or "only ate the good stuff. I explained to her that yeah, it's cheap now, but in 30 years, you'll be paying the hospital bills or dead. All I did was buy simple ingredient food. For example, she wanted blue bonnet "butter," and I said no, don't get that, and I picked up the store brand butter, and I showed her the label of what's ACTUALLY supposed to be butter. Just salt and cream, and she gave me this look 😒. All I could do was laugh about it. Same for the burgers, she picked out these crazy patties with like 15 ingredients that she couldn't even understand. I told her, "Put that back" and I turned around and grabbed a family size pack of 80/20 and I told her she's gonna love the smash burgers I'll make way better. She gave me that same look 😒. I think in an effort to save money people like her resort to those "foods" but they don't realize that real ACTUAL food is cheaper and better, they just have to learn how to prep and cook. The next day, she apologized to me because she thought she offended me. I felt really bad because there wasn't any reason to apologize. I just wanted everyone to eat better, even if it was just a holiday.
Yess! I have been in similar situations! I do eat real food lol I value what I eat over people’s opinions of me, thankfully, but people will automatically call you orthorexic for not wanting to eat ultra processed foods or things banned in other countries! 🙄
This should be grounds for class action lawsuits.
It would be the most monumental lawsuit in history. It's a great thing to be alive and part of this call for change.
My health was ruined by this trash. Millennials grew up eating Lunchables and Kid Cuisines and HandiSnacks and all that trash. We were drinking 3-liters of soda on the daily. I'm 40, now, with diabetes and hypertension, all that good stuff. Addiction is no joke. And these are scientifically-designed hyper-palatable ultra-processed foods
@@StreetHierarchy designed by the greatest minds with constant tweaking to ensure unwavering brand loyalty (addiction) and dangerous overconsumption.
Yes🔥
Why when people chose to eat it despite the information that's out there
Cutting way back on ultra-processed/fast food is one of the best things I ever did for my depression. In retrospect, my worst episodes coincided with when I ate that junk for most of my meals. Since I started making a lot more of my own food from fresh ingredients, I've improved my mood, lost weight, lowered my blood pressure, saved money and found joy in cooking as a hobby. A healthier diet requires more time but is worth it as an investment in yourself.
Agreed👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
You are now living a healthy, quality life with less stressors because you won’t have to be dealing with a bunch of diseases due to poor nutrition and/or toxic poisoning! You’ve traded “test tube experiments” for REAL food! Good for you! I wish you a long, healthy, happy life!👍
Or you could just move to literally anywhere else besides the U.S.A where it’s actually *illegal to do this*
Respectfully, The fact that you ppl just put up with this stuff is kind of insane. Like, I’ve met Vietnam & Korean Vets that left America 20+ years ago and they genuinely have been happier for it. Idk why more of you don’t follow there example. One of my older friend Tom (Vietnam - vet) was on all sorts of stuff for high blood pressure & PTSD. About a month after leaving the U.S.A and moving to Thailand he was a fully functional & HAPPY human being again. He literally told me “it wasn’t till I left that I realized, all of my problems were environmental.” Idk man it seams to me that you guys have been getting treated like Guinea pigs for so long that you think it’s normal. It’s not. Leave that dying country behind before it’s too late.
@@Marryjanesbud If given a choice of where and how to spawn in life, I might've chosen a different country and definitely wouldn't have chosen to grow up poor/black in the USA. But that's the hand I was dealt. And relocating to another country of my choosing just isn't a viable option for me. You're right, though, about our unhealthy food culture. It's a glaring symptom of corporate regulatory capture that pervades American society.
It truly is sinister that the foods your most likley to reach for when depressed make you more depressed. If that isn’t unconventional class warfare I don’t know what is.
Food and health companiies blame the consumer, that they should eat in "moderation." Meanwhile, those same food companies formulate the food to be as addicting as possible. It's shameful.
Those foods are cheaper than the whole foods we SHOULD be eating. Make whole foods affordable!!!
Start growing
Overpopulation and an increasing consumerism lifestyle depleted our naturally grown resources that caused the rise in prices...allowing food industries to take advantage to be incentivize in creating more ultraprocessed junk to feed the masses, regardless of public health
The problem isn't that whole foods need to be cheaper... it's that people need to place greater value on their health. People need to stop thinking of the cheaper stuff as "food". If you compare them by nutritional value and the cost of eventual healthcare you'll see that the "cheaper" food isn't actually cheaper. You're paying less money because there's less "food" in what you're purchasing. Everything you can eat shouldn't be thought of as "food".
Also, there used to be classes in school called "Home Economics". If you teach people how to use money effectively in regards to health and nutrition you'll have people who know how to acquire better value for their money and how to preserve and extend the value of what they purchase. My grandmother did it, as a widow, raising her grandchild and I never went hungry or had less than a full plate of food. Plus there was a network of family, relatives and neighbors and a garden tended to faithfully.
There are many controllable variables to the home making equation that people today tend to ignore and focus on something "somebody else" should do to make things easier for them.
@@kellysnyclife663 not everyone has large enough tracts of land to grow all of their food, Kelly. A tomato plant or 2 sure, but you need at least 1 acre to supply you with food all year long. Being from NYC, you’d think you’d know that.
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Looks like everyone needs to learn to cook again lol
Just need to learn to read, labels that is.
But even products to cook from home are processed...and lots of gmo's
@@deniseferreri8978 GMO food is good. Ultra-Processed ingredients are bad. Very different things.
@@cameronf3343Exactly, listen to professionals not quacks and Facebook. The idea all meals have to be made from scratch at home is nonsense. A good fresh tuna salad is a good tuna salad whether you made it or not.
Key word she missed is wholefoods. Healthy food is healthy whether you make it yourself or go to a salad bar with good olive oil, or order that delivered.
"You need to make everyeal from scratch to have healthy eating habits" is the wrong message and will turn some people away.
Sue the FDA for allowing this sh!t in the first place!
you can not sue the FDA for working as intendet and unfortunately the US is not alone with this problem. The whole world is drowning in unhealthy products. Or do you know a single country without coca cola? Yes the US is one of worst, even your so called bread is sweater then any cake I would eat... but the rest of the world is catching up fast.
Literally. Decades of Research and we are hearing about this now. Yet No action is being taken.
can we, the citizens possibly create a class action? we have to do something this can’t be
The FDA is partly funded by the same companies it “Regulates”. Insanity
Class action very much needed.
Everything without basic ingredients are killing you. 90 percent of food in stores should not be sold
I keep cocoa powder and other basic ingredients on hand, i make my deserts when I want them
@@sillygo0oserme too, they always taste better and I don’t feel sick afterward
@@jinxaay heck yea, i just made bread for the first time yesterday, and it tastes so much “cleaner” than store bought too. I recommend doing the same!
@@sillygo0oser that’s awesome! i wanna try making bread asap then! is there a specific recipe you used?
WATER (75%), SUGARS (12%) (GLUCOSE (48%), FRUCTOSE (40%), SUCROSE (2%), MALTOSE (
Scientists: Our food is killing us! 🔥
Main stream media: You have 3 minutes. Go!
Don't worry. Not every one dies much earlier just from eating processed food for most of their meals.
The whole grocery store business would shut down, that's 90% of what they sell
Closer to 98%.
Good because we only need farmers markets
@@warehouse1429 the reason processed foods are really popular because they're cheap and last a long time therefore if they stopped being sold and people would starve specifically poor people
@@notanaftagent8444 Indeed, but.... They need to ban these chemicals when there are safer alternatives for preservatives... They just use what kills us and they know it and don't care lol. There are other ways that would cost the same, and could turn a profit. but nah it's to hard. rather make country sick
@@notanaftagent8444no one would starve, they could easily move all the subsidies to real food instead of poison. That processed food would be incredibly expensive if they didn’t subsidize their ability to make it. The amount of corn grown in this country just so they can put corn syrup in nearly everything we eat is unreal. And that is highly subsidized with billions of our tax dollars going to the corporations poisoning us.
She was so hell bent on trying not to offend viewers on their food choices that she was completely useless in sounding the alarm. What a waste of the network’s time and money to present this failed message!
Yes thank you
Big food manufacturers will come after her. She wants to speak up, and still live.
She does seem extremely nervous...
It’s more about not offending sponsors, and not being sued by multibillion dollar corporations…
people have the right to choose what they eat.
We don’t have health care in our country, we have sick care. Only when keeping us consistently sick, industries makes money
73% is absolutely wild
Let's not forget about VEGETABLE OIL!!
You mean the stuff that helps my chainsaw run smoothly?
@@garzilla4624
Pretty sure you should use better lubes than that. Mineral oil or other
HFCS, seed oils, maltodextrin, all artificial sugars etc, etc, etc.
@@Un1234l They have vegetable based chainsaw oils you goofball.
Why is „artificial“ sugar bad for you?
If government banned all these processed foods can save your life and health insurance save your money pocket.
But it wouldn't save anyone money who can't afford to eat"healthy."
@@duckmercy11 Eating healthy isn't necessarily more expensive. It's an illusion. You can buy a ready made meal for cheaper than buying all of the ingredients that went into it, but if you were to buy all the ingredients then you would get more than one meal. Processed food is marketed as tasty, cheap, filling and even touted as 'healthy' because it has eggs or meat or something green resembling a vegetable in it. People on a low income buy it because often fresh food is not available where they live, they are rushed for time, they might not have cooking equipment, etc. but also because processed food is made to look appealing, quick and easy. If you cut animal products out of your diet, you food bill will be a lot lower - beans and lentils are cheaper than meat and dairy. We found this out quite by accident when we decided to go vegetarian years ago. Our food bill went down significantly even though we didn't eat 'expensive' meat before that.
Oh no, then the hospitals and insurance companies will make less profit!
We don't need more govt telling people what to do . They have too much say as it is.
@@annerigby4400 What if you live in the street and can't cook? Or in the shelter?
40 years too late. The gaslighting and denial is criminal. I feel bad for the people who actually believed all grocery food is safe.
@Relentless96 Can you relax opie
We can TALK about this all day long… but WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT? The food industry will turn a deaf ear on all of this… and the healthcare industry will be waiting on the long lines of people who have poor health from the over-processed food we have in the US.
I've changed my diet. I've boycotted all restaurants.
Don't buy it?
@@parallelpinkparakeet it's not that simple
@@Aurora-pi6jr How is it not for the vast majority of Americans? It's one thing if you're in a food desert but that's not most peoples' situation.
Put a tax on sugar, too!
When I was growing up, it was unusual to see an obese person. Now, so many of us are obese and unwell. Finally, a scientist is addressing the awful quality of our food. Thank you!
So true~ you watch videos/ movies from 30, 40 years ago and it’s astonishing how healthy, slim, active and athletic they were 🫨
I used to see way more obese people when I was younger tbh. Now people are just fatter in general but not as big.
If I'm not mistaken obesity has been in a constant rise since the 70s, until recently. It has apparently plateaued overall in the USA with pockets of communities having steady decline of obesity.
I look at photos back from the 60s, 70s and even 80s and obesity was uncommon. This recent era of overweight being normalized is ending because of how unhealthy it has been proven to be and the financial strain on Medicaid, Medicare and medical costs.
I saw someone park his vehicle in a fire lane. A shorter walk to a fast food place rather than an parking spot.
@@Sourwhatup If it plateaued it’s because official estimates say 42% of the US is classifiably obese. 2/5 of a population being obese isn’t something to accept or think “eh at least it’s not getting worse tho”
Listening to her speak was like torture. I can't even share this with my family to FURTHER sound the alarm to them because she "ummmed" the whole interview. We need a re-do!
Don’t you think this was intentional?
@@heloisa_89yes it was
Yep her interview was a train wreck! Not prepared or something...
Probably because of food libel laws. There are certain things you cannot say on the airwaves or you could get sued by big AG.
@Tiazz. She was just unprepared and has a stuttering problem. Nothing more. It was painful to listen to her, even though I feel bad that she's stuttering. That's not her fault, but the lack of research is.
Why do they try to address these problems at the consumer level? Go after the manufacturer.
Supply and demand
If they have to go through the trouble of re-labeling the food, they can just take those ingredients out instead
Amen
$$$$$$$$$
How will they keep people sick?
She didn’t explain anything, she sounded caught off guard, her thoughts rambled… this was her opportunity to scare and she missed her mark
Some people have anxiety or brain block when placed on the spot. Probably just needed a different speaker
How much do you weigh?
How much do you weigh?
Yes. Whoever picked this woman to represent science and health must have awful judgement, possibly more harm than good re: optics.
Rhonda Patrick makes clear intelligence arguments.
This was a train wreck.
that's like me after staying up all night doin k... you know she'll be sleepin in
She doesn’t want to call any brand out for fear of retaliation from the brand or government
There's too many brands to name, anyhow. It should be obvious what foods are ultra processed; basically anything that's "ready to eat."
@@chromberries7329 you can eat an apple or orange or pepper right away. Good bread is also "ready to eat" but not as unhealthy (most bread is made with chemicals that do not even need to be listed in the ingredients these days) the description "anything with more than 5 ingredients" or "anything containing ingredients you do not recognize without a degree in food chemistry" fits a lot better.
The crazy part is they are feeding our kids this trash at school and my child’s school has banned bringing lunch from home.
Oh hell no!
The TV reporter and his charts on screen provided more substantial information than the lady interviewed O_o
💯 seemed like she was not prepared at all
Very true, I was really confused when she starting talking😖
Yes, I kept waiting for her to start saying words
Trish was completely unprepared for this interview, epic fail. He asked her what kind of foods people should be taking out of their fridges and pantries, and all she could say is ‘crisps’ and the name of one additive..
@@WestCoast999he also asked her the difference between unprocessed, processed, and ultra processed, she only compares unprocessed and ultra. More “umm” in her speech than some actual information
All about money, the food industry works in conjunction with the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries
This is the result of corporate capture.
You can't blame corporates for everything. They're predatorily ...no doubt about it but one's own acknowledging that there is a problem and work at it is what you need.
Maybe, but reading and heeding the simple research of the ingredient list on foods is a way to find healthy, and even tasty, food.
I am always stunned by what passes for food in America.
1:40 got me messed up. They're not hyper palatable and tasty, they're what we're fed and raised on. Eat good foods for 3 months and get your sugar needs from fruits. I speak from experience, those foods you pick up will taste good and the junk food you thought was your favorite for 20 years will taste absolutely horrific. And that's good.
she means the chemicals make them "palatable', like your body would throw up soda from so much sugar, but the chemicals make it edible...
@@hustlecrowe9440 Definition of palatable:
adjective
adjective: palatable
(of food or drink) pleasant to taste.
"a very palatable local red wine"
It literally has nothing to do with edibility, it’s a descriptor for taste.
They are tasty though. You can eat low sugar daily and some junk food will still be tasty, delicious and so on. It's literally engineered to be that way. And that's what got it to reach the 73% of the food supply as mentioned in the video
@@zerocal76 Like I said I speak from experience, and I only did it after many of my friends & only sibling did it and said the same thing. Wanted to see if it’s true or not, and it is. All junk food tastes like how sewers smell after you’ve trained your taste buds to only like quality foods. There is zero rebuttal to that fact and I’m glad about it. Give it a shot man.
This is true. Chefs don't eat the same crap we do because they need to know what good food tastes like to make good food.
Shocked this was allowed to be aired. I'm sure the major companies that supplies these ultra processed foods advertise with CBS and will gladly pull those ads over something like this.
Yeah. Something is up...more than usual.
..... gee .... could that also be the reason there are no experimental gene therapy alarm bells ringing on the news?
YES! I've been saying this since 1970! When I worked in the hospital in the mid 70's I had many arguments with staff about hyper-processed foods. I was the only person on staff who didn't eat the hospital food and was constantly bringing up nutritional needs of our patients. I'm so happy that 50 years later finally medicine is embracing this. I hope people will take heed to the warning labels, especially children and pregnant women
Staying true to you intuition and gut feeling. Crazy how 40+ years later you were right.
Exactly. I love that you knew it & was trying for that long to change their minds. People only listen when science backs it up. Especially with peer reviewed sources.
The ultra processed stuff is not good. As Michael Polan wrote; “Eat food, mostly plants, not too much.”
50 years later…..
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I'm so glad you advocated for them! It's a step in the right direction. Our voices are powerful and the more people that do that can make even more of a difference. When I was working in a recovery center, I was very adamant about them making sure the food they were buying were healthy. It wasn't always the case, but I brought up the types of ingredients and how it would affect their gut health as well as mental health. The reality is if they really wanted them to improve overall, then they would no longer be a customer. The thing is placing money over peoples lives is something America needs to work on. We would be thrive if given the opportunity as a society and within the community if they valued health.
This is common sense, social media should have the same tabacoo style warnings as well.
That was the worst I've seen. She couldn't tell me any information. It was like what do I say? Horrible reporting and preparation. You have 10 seconds to talk about this and go!
@@unadomandaperte Uhm, are you saying that they are just lying about ultra-processed foods being harmful? That there is no proof of this? Tell me you are American without telling me you are American...
yeah terrible! "if it has more than 5 ingredients "? "if you dont recognize the name"? what kind of nonsense was that. We get it that ultra processed foods are unhealthy, but geez - clearer identification would have been more useful for the audience
She sounds like she's reading a ChatGPT summary.
@@medium-old Actually, if you check ingredients on food packages, then you'll realise that what she's saying tends to be a good place to start. If the list is long for what looks like a simple product, just put it back. If there are words that take you a few minutes to be able to pronounce, then chances are that's not food. Another good marker is: if I made this would I have put these ingredients in it? or do I know where to buy all of the ingredients listed? The woman's delivery was not smooth, but not everyone is good at explaining. The reporter should have taken that into consideration and asked her the questions differently.
Completely agree! The “more than five ingredients” part was the most stupid thing I’ve heard, anyone who’s ever made soup, bolognese, stews from scratch knows they have more than five ingredients, heck, salads have more than five ingredients 🙄 I agree ultra-processed foods are terrible for your health, but this “expert” was awful.
The sad reason why this issue wont gain any traction is because it would negatively impact the economy and politicians pockets. If the government intervenes for us to eat healthy, the pharmaceutical and medical industry would shrink, the middle of a supermarket, convenience stores like 7-11... too much money involved
So true
Human health is more important than filling greedy pockets.
The government and the people who make these laws don't care!! 🩻
I don't see the negative affect on the economy. People will always have to eat. Just eat something different.
It won't gain any impact because bullying causes depression, not eating a slice of cheese! Come on people!
She was being very careful and monitoring every word she said. 🤦♀️
Facts
Yes, she did all she could not to say what kind of food was ultra processed.
You guys have never been sued before. If you think these big corporations will not take every cent you'll ever work for with a defamation lawsuit, think again. I doubt she has hundreds of thousands to go to court and hire lawyers
@@zvezdoblyat Oh you're absolutely right! I think we were just stating a fact.
@@zvezdoblyat she could have said more than lasagna and crisps, how about "Soda, beer, frozen meals, and candy" too
Literally everything is poisoned.
So basically everything in a supermarket 👀
Yup, that's the point of the video.
No ultra processed, not processed.
Uh... No. If your supermarket doesn't have a fresh meat department, or a produce section, then it's not a supermarket - it's a gas station.
They need to label the Monsanto foods
They do...they label it as, "bio engineered" foods
@@fennyellis3366 No but I like that ...
@@fennyellis3366 umm not all of it. That's something else
@@jul.escobar
Please elaborate.
I would like to know.
Thank you!
Monsanto is now Bayer.
Remember Trump ROLLED BACK health regulations and practically said he didn’t care what your kid ate or how the food tastes somehow like steak. Texas LOVED this in 2016.
Ban the ingredients and processing methods.
If nature made it, EAT IT. If man made it, LEAVE IT. Easy peasy....
Nature makes a lot of things we can’t eat
@@Arbysroastbeefjuice There's always one that doesn't have common sense. Congrats! and good luck!
What about bread?
I remember in the early 70's that bread would " mold" if not eaten fairly quickly ( 1 - 2 weeks??)...A couple of years ago, upon returning home from a 2 month long RV trip, I noticed some bread in the pantry that I had forgotten about. It looked as fresh as the day I bought it over 2 MONTHS EARILIER!!! The amount of preservatives in that is SCARY!! I threw it out!!!
@@milktar2182 unfortunately even the bread in a country like Germany these days is produced with the help of chemical processes that replaced the natural fermentation of the yeast, just to save time. As a result many people end up suffering from digestive issues. Not saying you can not buy good bread in Germany but it is far from common. The bread in the US does not deserve to be called that, it is closer to Cake then actual bread.
THS IS THE EXPERT?
Ikr such a shame
Smh
No, it should be taken off the market, if you need warning labels or ad bans, take it off the market.
Especially when they know it causes cancer.
Why remove the freedom of access? People should be free to choose, as long as it's an educated choice. No need to ban tobacco and alcohol either.
There are a lot of food additives that are banned in most other countries in the world but not here. The good thing is, the ingredients are listed so consumers can make an educated choice.
@@AscheOfTheLakeThis is asinine.
@@davehugstreesHave you heard of secret GRAS? Not all ingredients in food have been reviewed by the FDA, and are in umbrella terms in the ingredients list so we don't know what they are either. It's a shady business.
@@TheDragonSeer how so? Educate people and let them make their own choices. The only issue I have is that people are mislead by intentionally misleading advertising.
If someone wants to drink gallons of liquor a month, that is their choice. If someone wants to live off nothing but chemical flavorings and artificial preservatives, that is also their choice.
It’s about time!
How about just removing all those horrible ingredients like other countries have?
someday, the idea that hospitals served processed food and had soda vending machines will seem as bizarre as the idea took used to be able to smoke in hospital waiting rooms.
Patient rooms used to have ashtrays. Lol.
I hope so! 🙏
Too bad the woman was not better prepared on what she wanted to say. Her poor delivery of the important information, greatly impaired her getting her point across.🙃
The processed food company’s have been unregulated for far too long. This is a health crisis that has been increasing every decade since the 1950’s. Doctors need to be more educated on nutrition and less relying on drugs.
First, make lobbyists illegal. Only then will the government actually do anything about of of this.
Bingo
This is long overdue, should have been done in the 80's. Other countries ban a fair amount of processed food sold in the US.
Wow. It only took 50 years...
They don’t ban it because the healthcare lucrative business would not be booming.
We need to adopt the European standards.
cause europe does not have processed food... no Coce, no MC donalds, no Burgerking, no Oreos and other junkfood snacks. It is true EU standart for food is better than the US but the difference is only very marginally.
The food industry should be held accountable
This lady needs to speed up her thought processes.
The problem here is that their definition of food "processing" is not meaningful. They are not defined by their nutritional value, but literally by the process by which they come into existance. I dont see the problem with food being made by means of industrial production so long as the food is proven to be safe to eat, and either provides actual nutritional value or is clearly advertised as a treat with little to no nutritional value.
We should not be banning any product simply because it is unhealthy in excess. People should have the right to enjoy what they enjoy. It's up to the individual to make appropriate choices for their own health, and up to the manufacturer to provide sufficient information for the individual to make an informed decision.
Long overdue!!!
Yes. We should have fresher foods. Schools should teach how to farm. All American should be farming 👍🏼
And how to cook, that would solve most problems, and reduce reliance on the microwave ready meals.
There is no way on earth all of us could begin to afford to farm!!! Yikes!!! I live in a farming community. Farmers shell out WAY more money than I could EVER afford and don't make nearly as much money back unfortunately.
@@jennifer7648 you can grow all the food you need with 200-300 sq ft of garden per person. It can be done with hand tools for little money. No need to do large scale farming.
@@jennifer7648 I mean if you can’t have one on your property then work for one. And just get some pots and start growing your own herbs. That’s what I want to do…. Seasoning is so expensive
@@jennifer7648at one point in time everyone had a small farm. It's critical to survival. It does have to big a large farm just enough to help reduce dependency, lower market cost, and increase self sufficiency. Everyone should have a small garden, chickens, etc
Is she telling anyone anything they didn't already know? And why is she talking like shes being held hostage or something?
The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when an individual, who is communicating with others, assumes that others have information that is only available to themselves, assuming they all share a background and understanding. This bias is also called by some authors the curse of expertise.
How about ban drug companies showing commercials and they can't donate to news organizations first
They have known about this for decades!
There really isn’t much that you can’t make in your kitchen. Cereal, ice cream, crackers, jerky, yogurt, Oreos,… you really can do it all with a little practice, and believe it or not, it usually tastes better. (Not to mention the smug satisfaction it will bring you 😏)
And cheaper than store bought. Over the years, we invested in food processing equipment to make food ourselves. Meat grinder, large stand mixer, good knives, meat slicer, pasta machine, canning equipment and supplies. Saves tons of money in the end and easily paid for themselves in short order.
We are poisoned on purpose.
Population control?
Many people would rather have convenient food that tastes better and they’ll give up some years for this, consumers vote for this.
@@lucycan6363Don't listen. This isn't a conspiracy. It's all about profit. Fatty, unhealthy foods taste good. People will buy what tastes good, especially if they've done it since childhood.
@@Paul-tp9yh But they don't taste good at all! At least when you step away from it for a little while and learn to cook real, home-made meals. There are a lot of awesome recipes out there! When you've done it for a while, and you go back to the processed crap, you realize how nasty and fake it tastes! How oily or overly sweet it is. Nasty! You can taste the chemicals and crap they put into it. Especially If you also do some fasting on the regular (which will save you a lot of money, AND heal your body, and help you lose weight). I live and eat healthy as someone with less money than most, and I have really good health, and people think I am in my mid-twenties even though I will be 40 next year. I feel sorry for those who don't know how easy it really is to prioritize your health and food choices once you know how great it feels. I'm never sick. Don't spend money on medical bills or health-related issues, cause I don't have them. People just need to wake up and see that there is a reason Americans are some of the most obese and unhealthy people on earth!
For the medical complex. Invest and make money.
I'm eating a Campbell's chunky beef stew soup right now, I checked the label and it had soybean oil and caramel coloring. Completely unneeded
look at Woodstock photos from 1968. The kids had low body fat and were chiseled.
That's because they were eating paper.
No internet. That's the big difference.
Rose spectacles syndrome
Those "kids" had also been allowed to play outdoors daily and for many hours. It all adds up.
They were also starving and on psychedelic drugs lol but yes they also weren’t being fed what we are today. And they were doing drugs 😂
Anything in plastic with more than 5 ingredients? So everything then.
Not everything. Learn to buy raw ingredients and cook instead of taking the lazy route and buying pre-made nonsense.
Check out the small section of your grocery store called produce. It's the one without all the processed crap. There are fresh fruits and vegetables there. Good luck on the price of them!
Why is it even allowed? It should be banned like in Europe.
What foods are banned in Europe?
GREED
@@thersten Most packaged food of America are banned in Europe. Or they have healthier/less artificial additive in shelf foods unlike here.
Mmm people say europe is more healthy than america but it’s never true, they may have a couple things banned that we consume on a daily basis here but europe still has additives and sugars and emulsifiers within their grocery stores as well
@@gphillips3775 are Nabisco chocolate Chip cookies banned? (My favorites) How about Doritos? Or Twinkies?
These foods should not be covered by any government assistance programs (SNAP, WIC). Until then there will be no ban.
Yeah, those warning labels on the cigarettes have really deterred a lot of people. Just the other day, I seen someone about to buy a pack of cigarettes and they seen the warning and were like “oh my gosh! I had no idea these weren’t healthy!” They immediately put them down and grabbed a carrot
First of all use better grammar. Saying or writing “I seen” instead of the correct “I saw” makes you sound uneducated causing others to not take you seriously. Second, think a little before you express your opinion. Smoking rates in the US have decreased from 42% in the 1960s to an all time low of 11% in 2023. Strategies such as tobacco tax, advertising bans, warning labels and bans on smoking indoors have all worked successfully to decrease cigarette smoking. Your opinion is as important as anyone else’s. However, to be taken seriously, express your opinion with correct grammar and try to be logical, otherwise you come across as ignorant (and I’m sure you are not ignorant).
You are right, despite the grammar police. No one ever quit smoking because of the warning label.
@@Wee162 You used a split infinitive, "to not take." It should be "not to take."
People smoke far less than they did thirty years ago. 😊
How do you smoke a carrot?
Wouldn't it be better to just do like other countries and just get rid of trash ingredients, additives and preservatives?
I think it's too little too late considering half of us already have cancer.
They act like this is new news. Food companies have been paying off testing results for years to lie to us and tell us that these things aren’t harmful and arent addictive. I’ve been cooking from scratch all my life, and I plan on keeping it that way. However, even I still have weaknesses for these things.
There are already warnings on everything -- they're called nutrition facts labels. Biggest problem is people's inability/unwillingness to read them.
Most food at Aldi's seems to have very few ingredients unlike our American foods that have paragraphs of description.
Have you heard of secret GRAS? Food manufacturers can stuff ingredients into food without the FDA having passed eyes on them. What are they called? They're nested under "spices" and "artifical flavors." Not everything is listed on the ingredients label.
@tradeprosper5002 Yeah, Aldi is actually a good place to shop for that. You still have to read some of their food though because it's not all good. But a surprising amount doesn't have corn syrup, artifical dyes, etc.
@@tradeprosper5002Funny you say that, an Aldi came to my area recently and it's become my favorite store since!
@@TheDragonSeerYes, "generally recognized as safe" -- understandable for some substances, not for others. NF labels may not list every ingredient, but generally, using them can help one deduce whether or not something's okay to eat. It's pretty rare for a product (especially an ultra processed one) to have only unassuming-sounding ingredients listed.
Many of these foods and harmful ingredients have been banned in other countries for years.
Grocery stores have entire isles with sugary sodas, candy, cookies, chips, snack cakes, frozen pizza, high-carb frozen meals and ice cream. It’s wall-to-wall garbage everywhere you look. I’ve seen obese people in there perusing the ice cream isle and it’s sickening. Most of what’s wrong with public is right in front of us. All junk food should be taxed to make healthier options cheaper.
Most of my life ate real food in Europe I dislike fast foods All my life in Our country of America we have the Best Restaurants in the world but most people are addited to fast foods so hospitals and doctors can have a lot of patients well Now We are the one or first less healthy country in the world with more deseases specially cancer and aldaimers people in the Universe to make Worst Now in few years before they started putting like a glue in most cooked foods and my sherbet yesterday had litle pieces of glue that I did not eat my papaya had pieces o hard and soft material most fruits and vegetables are being done in nursery s and given liquid with glue so it is there They want Us DEAD and eliminate because Food is a daily thing no more FBI or CIA we will drop dead to their pleasure
If you read the ingredients and see nothing but chemical compounds then it's a ultra process food.
Meanwhile, the FDA is unbothered…
They're well paid...
I have the point of view that:
1) Its the industry/producers fault to provide those kind of unhealthy foods
2) its the consumers fault too...ITS ALWAYS A CHOICE TO BUY/EAT IT!
But honestly banning certain ingredients would be far more rational way...to get the obesity handled properly.
It is almost impossible to avoid them completely in the US.
I'm going to the supermarket and it takea me around 5 minutes to just see a regular food not uktra processed. There are wayyy too many of them.
I don't think anyone is suggesting that the goal is to avoid them completely, but that it shouldn't make up 50%+ a person's regular diet.
A lot of these "convenience" meals are at the inconvenience of our long-term health.
Did you even watch, 70% of grocery stores have heavily processed foods, and more often than not the “healthy” options are 2x more expensive than the other. It’s not the consumers fault, it never was and I think we need to stop blaming consumers for the greed of the industry
Not for children
It’s absolutely disgusting what companies can get away with in United States.
Including bread and yogurt?
Deeming so many foods as ultraprocessed is an overly broad, vague categorization....
Should instead be based on the health of the additives used as well as amount of added sugar etc
Bread and yogurt are definitely bad.
That's the point of the video. Too much of the US food system is engineered in factories to make us sick. It's so pervasive because companies are really aggressive about selling us unhealthy food. If you read the ingredients labels looking for what the researcher described, even the bread and yogurt, you'll find tons of questionable ingredients. I only found one loaf of bread I'm comfortable buying at the store now and I completely stopped buying yogurt (I just make my own).
@@duckmercy11 Ah right so my organic, sprouted whole wheat bread I eat with tons of fibre and non-added vitamins and minerals is "ultra-processed" junk food right...?
@@djayjp They meant regular bread the mass consumer buys, not the pretentious tree hugger niche.
@@djayjpif from a store, it's likely loaded with preservatives. Fresh made bread should have 4-5 ingredients, and is super easy to make.
Capitalism: You don't help the people. You prey on them.
So true..because they really don't care about us..
So true ..they really just don't care about us and our health ...
Ah yes, so much better under communism and socialism. People have a choice under capitalism. You can seek out better options.
@@AscheOfTheLake That would actually mean something if America was any of those other two. And yes, they have a choice to stop patronizing companies that raised their prices after the pandemic.
@@AscheOfTheLake Trump supporter?
My Arizona brand tea says "100% natural" on the can, but looking at the ingredients it contains a blend of various black teas, high fructose corn syrup, citric acid, and natural flavors, with no indication of which flavors they used. So in other words, added sugar and flavoring is considered 100% natural. 😐
Natural is a meaningless word in marketing. Unfortunately billion dollar networks of corporate lobbys threaten to pull funding if advertising is challenged.
Deadly nightshade, ebola, and plutonium are "natural".
It's not something you necessarily want to handle.
It's referring to the tea itself, not all the ingredients. Plus "natural" is not a regulated term.
Those are just buzz words that they use to sell products. They mean much more than you think they mean.
The terms all natural, low sugar, low carb, low fat, healthy, whole grain, high fiber, with ingredients that dont back up that claim are all blatant lies and the companies know this. I agree with processed foods coming with health warnings. Companies should not be allowed to make false claims on a package. I guarantee the CEOs would refuse to eat it.
Should’ve been like 40 years ago and maybe America wouldn’t be obesity central
If a company is PUBLICLY TRADED. Guess what? THE ONLY PEOPLE THEY ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT ARE THE INVESTORS. No one else!!! Period!