Wild article on the Tyee about how processed food is having significant negative impacts, not only on us but the planet as a whole as well.
Couple of choice quotes to whet the appetite. UPF = ultra-processed foods
"In just the last decade, nutrition scientists have begun to question whether most of the food we buy and consume is really food at all. Their answer: No, it’s not, but it drives an economy that exploits us from the cradle to an early grave."
"The average cost of insulin in Canada is US$12 per unit; in the United States, it’s US$98.70, the highest in the world. (In Turkey it’s just US$2.64.) So the growth of UPF-driven diabetes has been a bonanza for pharmaceutical companies."
"So UPF damages the environment in its production, malnourishes and sickens its consumers and thereby creates demand for expensive and hazardous “cures” to remedy UPF-caused conditions. As well, it boosts demands for health services from dentistry to palliative care. From a corporate point of view, UPF is an ideal cradle-to-grave investment."
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/11/30/How-Do-We-Rebuild-Our-Eating-Habits/
We don't know what our limits are, so to start something with the idea of being limited actually ends up limiting us.
Ellen Langer
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