Why do we have chemicals in our food?
More than half of the calories consumed in an average household in the U.S. or U.K. comes from ultra-processed foods. Consumption is already high in the developed world and rapidly increasing in developing countries.
However, recent scientific studies have linked eating UPF with serious health issues like diabetes, obesity, and even cancer. Although current studies cannot prove causation, experts believe reducing UPF in a diet is essential for overall well-being.
"Eating this stuff regularly, every single day, every meal, accumulating all these chemicals in our body, they make us overeat by 25%," said Tim Spector, a professor of epidemiology at King's College London and the co-founder of ZOE - a personalized nutrition app.
"Most of the ultra-processed food that you find are higher in salt, fat and sugar. They are designed extremely tasty, they're ready to eat and they are aggressively marketed, especially to children", Dr Kiara Chang of Imperial College London noted.
In the U.K., where 1 in 4 people are obese, there are growing calls for the food industry and the government to act and offer healthier options to the population. The $128 billion British food and beverage industry is the largest manufacturing sector in the country, employing more than 400,000 people.
"We are calling for food sector companies to report a set of health and sustainability metrics that would be on a mandatory basis," said Sophie Lawrence, who leads a group of investors called the Investor Coalition for Food Policy, managing assets worth $7 trillion.
"We need to make sure that the government and businesses are acting to actually change the food environment people are living in," said Rebecca Tobi, senior business and investment manager at the Food Foundation.
So, could ultra-processed food be taken off the menu? Watch the video to find out.
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THIS one sentence about says it all: Europe bans over 1300 chemicals from food including hormone altering pesticides, while the US bans only 9.
It's just a different philosophy, Europe is more conservative and wants the ingredients proven to be safe and are extremely cautious of any ingredients that might have an issue, the US still regulates many chemicals but won't outright ban them because low enough doses are still useful for the recipes without having any measurable health downsides.
@@GodHandFemtoSpoken like a true corporate representative.
@@GodHandFemtoOr maybe private hospitals need sick people to make profit.
@@J.A.Z-TheMortal What a very insightful response to his comment.
@@GodHandFemto You are so funny that you believe yourself.🤣🤣🤣
frozen vegies, can beans, frozen fruit, oats are way cheaper than processed food. people need to learn to cook simple nutritious foods.
Frozen Blu berries taste like chemicals when ready to eat.
I 100% agree with you.
The thing is you can’t find clean healthy ingredients in America in the first place
This is why women shouldn’t work
Come to the balkans and see
12 years ago, I stopped eating all ultra processed foods and anything from animals and permanently lost 120 pounds, so far. 71 years old and never felt better!
You don’t eat meat?
@@Farquad76.547 No I don't. I stick with the Grains, Vegetables and Fruits. I go to the gym and run the treadmill 6 days a week, and am on no pills either. All I can say is that it does take some effort to do this, but it is well worth it to me.
I'm only 4 years old eating clean and I'm 58 and have no heath issues "Yet" I made it in and out safely. I hope
@@gm7304 Added bonus: The bulk of what I eat are the so called complex carbohydrates, Rice, Lentils, Potatoes and these foods are really really inexpensive!
Should add meat to be healthy
I worked in food manufacturing and companies that buy the product would always ask us to find a way for our products to last longer. We flash freeze the food and had it last a year if kept frozen. They would ask us to find a way to make it be 24 months or longer which means more chemicals.
Crazy
Business sense last longer
Make them food corporate owners and their stockholders to EAT THEIR PRODUCTS FOR 7 YEARS FIRST before they decide to sell it and that includes CORRUPT FDA PEOPLE! Then we will see if they will approve it or not. Give them a dose of their own medicine and food!
@@tazboy1934 Make them food corporate owners and their stockholders to EAT THEIR PRODUCTS FOR 7 YEARS FIRST before they decide to sell it and that includes CORRUPT FDA PEOPLE! Then we will see if they will approve it or not. Give them a dose of their own medicine and food!
Make them food corporate owners and their stockholders to EAT THEIR PRODUCTS FOR 7 YEARS FIRST before they decide to sell it and that includes CORRUPT FDA PEOPLE! Then we will see if they will approve it or not. Give them a dose of their own medicine and food!
Pay the farmer now or the doctor later
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Farmers take all my money
This should be a no-brainer. Probably the number one thing we could do is ban the harmful additives in these foods.
Eat food not too much mostly plants Put Aldi veggies in pot add beans and canned tomatoes cook eat. Next.
The EU has banned many additives that are still legal in the U.S.
Exactly!@@kelliott7864
Why is the US behind in this?
@@rickyayyI dunno. Also, why's Canada behind? O wait, probably because of USA.
Problem is: *Companies want you addicted* That ensures you're a returning customer...
Sugar sugar sugar 😋
Pharmaceutical industry too
despite their goal of making more money, they making less money than ever, while they're also poisoning their country food, killing themself and their future generation in the process, Irony
@@droiddevx03 Buddy... There is a plethora of PhD neuroscientists and food scientists with billions $ in research getting people addicted from birth. The average person stands no chance
@@droiddevx03 my brother is a food scientist. As he describes it, their job is to overwhelm your self control.
The issue is not only with ultra processed food but also with packaging containing PAS/PFOAS, BFA, etc
Rock ON with that! same with warming things up in plastic containers ✋High Five!
The issue is with both, correct
I was gobsmacked when I read Consumer Reports latest test results for PFAS and phthalate content in packaged and fast foods. Some major offenders last time have improved, but some have not or gotten worse. I was majorly surprised by Chipotle burritos and plain Cheerios.
That's why we should grow our own food or buy from your local farmer. Never depend on these corporations or petrochem companies
Finally... Thanks CNBC for bringing this topic to light
Convenience is a killer. You need to prepare your own meals from raw ingredients to be sure as to what goes into your body. Stay safe peeps
Ultra-processed products are so cheap because they AREN'T ACTUALLY FOOD!!!
UPF is just different combinations of grain, sugar and seed oil. Each receive massive government subsidies.
@@RBzee112 Try selling the Brooklyn Bridge instead. Name me an ultra-processed product that actually lists grain, sugar, and seed oil as its ingredients on the packaging. I'll wait..................
@@ItsNeverTooHot4Leather Pretty much every process food lists those three things. Except, in the listings its typically the scientific terms for them. So sugar will show up as stuff like Dextrose, Fructose, Glucose, etc. Grain will be things like wheat, barley, etc. Seed oil will be things like Canola Oil, Sunflower oil, etc. They may also use the term Vergiabtle oil generally then have like () to describe what it actually is
Exactly, it's just carbs with flavourings.@@dennisp8520
Well healthy food in my countries Eswatini and DR Congo is actually very cheap. chicken, beef, corn, vegetables and pork are 35% cheaper than processed foods such as cheese, butter. Fast food like KFC is even way more expensive. I always thought we were backward yet we live a much healthier life.
Healthy food is pretty cheap in the United States too.
I'm from Argentina and food here is also very cheap. Carrots cost $0.30/kg. Chicken breats $4.5/kg. Apples $1-2/kg. And so on. We live in a era where internet is in everywhere. You don't even have to go to the supermarket in order to have your fruits/veggies/meat/etc in your fridge. The supermarket comes to you. Just have to find the time and will to do it. That if you care about your health.
@@juanbertone1941 well personally we don't even buy vegetables in my family, we grow our own spinach, peppers, corn, cassava, carrots, onions, cabbage and beetroot and we don't use fertilizers or pesticides as most Swatis do. We also have our own chickens in our yard. The only things we buy from the supermarket are apples, grapes because we don't grow them in Eswatini and we also buy snacks, cooking oil and things we can't grow on our own. I wouldn't be able to survive in Western countries.
Same in Uganda. You need to be very rich to buy processed or imported food.
This is how it should be! Wonderful! But butter and cheese arent processed food especially real ones. ❤
YES. don't eat processed foods, don't eat sugar. my father healed from diabetes type 2 in around 1 year. how?? intermittent fasting and low-carb.
so true
@@bhappy5510 so many deaths and so much suffering are so avoidable
Then you will starve to death. You do know that picking fruits and vegetables is a process so lets assume you pick wild carrots or apples the minute you pick them it is a process, then lets say you wash them that is another process, then say you cut them that is another process. You are eating processed foods no matter what you are doing.. You could be more specific and say chemical processed foods but then again everything is basically a chemical 😂
@@lostboy8084 in the context the term processed food is pretty clear, as opposed to whole foods. then of course some foods are more processed than others and even whole foods can be unhealthy (for example due to pesticides or some substances given to animals etc.)
Its not just processed food, unlike in much of Europe and unlike 100 years ago even alot of our "whole foods", like chicken are adulterated. What they feed those chickens (1 example: reprocessing their own feces to feed back to the chicken), is kept hush hush by the poultry industry and pretty disgusting. They now use processed city sewage to fertilize crop fields, think of all the toxic chemicals dumped into city sewers, its going back into our food supply.
I had to freeze the screen to see how innocent and caring the mother bird is with her babies mouths open all natural at 7:16 Wow a Nestles logo advertisement I've never seen before. Look how peaceful they look. While people are dropping dead like fly's
I travelled across italy this year. The quality of food was soo much better. Fresh is best. We can learn a lot in the UK. People are so reliant on cheap processed crap, which sadly has less flavour.
Best bread I ever had, in Milan.
Porridge oats/oatmeal made with half water and half milk. Add some milled linseed. Microwave for under three minutes. Pasta sauce made from pasata with veg (onions, courgette, pepper) 20 minutes. Lunch of a soup made from seasonal root veg and a stock cube. Takes about 30 minutes and makes over four portions. (A bag of carrots and parsnips cost about 50p). These are healthy, quick and cheap. You may not like them very much (my partner much prefers cocoa pops and fried chicken) but that isn't the point - eating healthy can be cheap.
Vegetables are that cheap where you live?! Wow. I have a very restricted diet because of illness but carrot and parsnip I actually can eat and I love it but they both cost a LOT, veggies have gotten so expensive in my country that it's close to being a luxury. Sometimes we cook a meal and buy one vegetable LESS to be able to afford it.
England is the sister country to the USA when it comes to the high rate of cancer,diabetes and obesity following in third place is Australia.
So, the Anglosphere in general.
Island nations like Cook Islands have worse obesity rates than the United States
05:18 Aha! Nobody should have to work multiple shifts, PERIOD. If we have 8 hours to work, 8 hours to sleep and 8 hours to ourselves, then we're more likely to make smart decisions on eating. But then the owner class on top would make less profits in that case, wouldn't they?
Wow finally someone is brave enough to make a video about this… Very informative ❤
What about Herbicides and Pesticides?
The irony coming from CNBC
What's brave about it???
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There are literally hundreds if not thousands of videos available on KZhead about this.
When there's a will, there's a way. When there's no will, there's nothing but excuses.
Thanks for all your great advice. I really enjoy watching your videos, they provide a lot of knowledge and are very helpful on a daily basis in choosing food when shopping, etc. Thank you ❤✨
Make the economy bad enough that most people can't afford healthy food. And then make ultra processed food cheap enough that's all you can afford. The way food industry became so rich.
Why do people need to buy a coffee, breakfast or lunch on the street while commuting to the working place or backwards? Why not to cook and eat breakfast or lunch at home? First it would be much cheaper. Second - you do not eat processed food and do not support all these crooks who sell unhealthy UPF to people. At the moment there are a lot of kitchen appliances, which help tp cook food almost doing nothing and spending a few minutes just for ingredients preparation.
My daughter refused eating school lunches because they're ultra processed so her teacher told me to make something at home for her so she can eat for lunch at school. I was so happy and yesterday was the very first time my daughter enjoyed her food in school because i cooked something she recognised and she told me she enjoyed her luch so much and the smile on my face lit because that was the first time my daughter eat her lunch because it was made from home and she recognised it. School dont feed kids healthy food because fast food or canned food are cheaper than cooking fresh. I looked at the school menu and almost everything on the menu is nothing healthy or appetising especially for small children who have hard time with foods or eating disorders. Things need to change really
That's a relief. It is not just the U.S.
It sure looks like like we're the worst, though. We should be leading the charge to introduce better food regulations.
It’s more of a first world problem.
@@mistermoogleI’m hoping that some better regulations come along in the first world as far as the food industry. However I don’t think that will happen….
I often get confused when people bring this up and always think man my country really sucks when most issues mentioned are there in fact (may not be as bad as fear mongering people think) but not just in the USA. However I’d still like to be able to eat my food without a worry it might be potentially harmful.
Great job Idil Karsit 👏🏻
The complicated part of the discussion is that ultra-processed foods are cheaper because they last longer on the shelf, while healthy or natural foods are expensive because they last less time and are more difficult to obtain.
Having worked in food processing. I can say the main reason for preservatives is. The machinery has so many places that are impossible to clean and the gunk that builds up they are added to kill bacteria. I have seen stuff taken apart that the smell would make you throw up. Cold cuts are the worst.
Our decision to leave the UK was influenced by this.
I'm so passionate about this topic. If you're interested as well and would Iike more information on this topic, I would recommend reading Ultraprocessed People by Chris van Tulleken, it's a great read!
Totally agree. In my opinion, it's the best book on the topic.
his video was recommended while watching this video. crazy
@@balloonredd373yeah same. Its right here in recommendations
Nice! I requested this book from my library
@@dramaticroses94I remember reading an old book printed in the early 1970s and it said that if you want to eat REAL HEALTHY FOODS then grow your own food in your garden or container gardens or both.
Do people remember that lemonade is made with sugar. All nutrition comes down to be is eat everything in moderation. The added sugars aren’t gonna kill the average person, it’s the fact you consume it over and over again and don’t diversify your food.
Esto deja a latam como un paraíso. This makes latam look like a paradise.
One of the problem is that many folk feel whether rightly or wrongly, that they don't have the time to make informed choices in what they eat, or the time for the modest extra time the preparation takes.
Or that healthy food costs twice as much.
@@duckmercy11 Things that are marketed as 'healthy foods' will be expensive. It's being smart / informed enough to know the difference.
Most U.S. foods are banned in other countries, I wonder why 🤔
Obviously because none of those other countries have deaths anymore.
Did you notice that this video was filmed in fucking London
The reporter can afford healthier options. Why doesn't she want them?
Thanks CNBC for having the courage to speak about this topic❤❤❤
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Human beings are natural creatures needing natural lifestyles to survive sensibly according to nature. Anything artificial interrupts the natural rhythm of the human and hence the question is heavily rhetorical. All of this because of the what that other natural thing said over 1,000 years ago: For the LOVE of money is the ROOT of ALL EVIL.
Natural doesn't equal healthy. Plenty of things that are natural in nature that will kill us
When you work dusk till dawn, it's obviuosuly that you will not to be access searching the right type of food, and as a result obesity and overweight. It happened to me on my 29th, but fortunately I understood this and now I struggle with that issue by doing exercises and avoiding junky food. But, I have to admit that I feel a strong desire to eat some chips and chocolate from time to time. Take care of yourself and detach of unhealty food.
From Bangalore, India - the tech valley of India. I totally understand the compulsion to have fast food- busy lives, ease of access, particularly through online food-delivery platforms - Swiggy, Zomato, etc. It's so easy to fall into the trap. Grateful to be in a home, with a grandmother who prepares every single meal and who's passed that onto us. I realised how compelled I felt to order food, and at that point mentally arguing with your self is taxing. Now, I've deleted both apps and take the time to meal prep, to educate myself, etc. But the thing is I feel with globalization, this might get to the point as it is in Western countries. Growing up abroad, school meals were always paired with processed juices, or a swiss-roll, and the day ended with a cup of warm milk topped up with Horlicks/Boost/Bournvita/Nido/Nesquik- who's ads would be targeted towards children via ad breaks on TV, etc. While people can make small steps towards improving their eating habits and their attitude towards food, educating children about nutrition, reading labels, preparing meals, financial education- either at home or school- would greatly benefit them and the future generation.
We need an app that will scan a real food and tell you whether it's fresh or stale plus it should also tell us how much calories it contains.
If you have the free time to watch a CNBC video about ultra processed foods then it's likely that you won't suffer from any of the repercussions of overconsumption. Alas, the folks who really need to get the message will never watch this.
The problem with a lot of modern foods is that they're barely foods at all.
Start growing your own food. I had an apartment. I grew my own vegetables or of storage bins. Got the hell out of the U.S. moved to Mexico and all of my diseases gone. I'm even if dialysis for over two years.
You guys need to do some endeavours on intaking fresh vegetables and fruits as much as possible if you want to consume UPF or fastfood, such as pizza,hamburger,and fried chicken and other type of processed food for having a meal.
meat is perfectly healthy, the reason fastfood meats are causing obesity are due to the frying in rancid, oxidized oils. Do not cook with processed seed oils like "vegetable oil". You can just use Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, and Butter. The oldest people in the world usually cook with olive oil because that stuff makes you live forever.
bring investors into the equation. What a great idea! Everybody knows that their main concern is everyone's health rather than profits.
Loved hugs quick observation about carb content-
I prefer to make my own food. Many people apparently want to be Rich, you know, to buy in Starbucks, groceries stores, MacDonalds, fast food. so on.
Adding stuff makes for cheaper food (longer shelf life). You have more people on this planet straining the finite resources (land) to grow food. We alter things like wheat, corn, soybeans, meat, dairy (subsidized by gov ) to grow more in less time. Corn syrup is a main ingredient to many foods. Many finished foods (crackers, cookies, etc) having more stuff added to last longer.
people talk about price but when you look at some of the prices of these over processed foods it's more expensive. Snacks, candies, prepared meats, per lb is always more expensive.
Only when you buy them individually or if it's a high price brand like Oreo. There are low price brands like Little Debbie that sell boxes of snacks for super cheap.
Sugar is bad but it's replacement is even worse.
not really dates, maple syrup and honey are pretty healthy
Brown sugar !!
5:53, did she really think that inverstors (or better said lobbysts) really need to be in food quality table ? when their main interrest is maximalize revenue? this intererrest is never alligned with "providing healthy groceries" of population....
Veggies aren’t expensive by me. Cucumbers are .89 cents, celery 1.49 just the give an example. Bananas are .69 cents a pound, apples are a little on the high side.
Not sure cucumbers are so very nutritious, though i often have cucumber crudités as a starter - but certainly bananas are ridiculously cheap, and carrots, and potatoes, and frozen peas.
@@Simpaulme cucumbers are nutritious, google it.
@@Simpaulme indeed. Fresh is best but then you can go for frozen or canned. And this is cheap.
Per calorie, they’re comparatively extremely expensive
@@paulmolyneux9503 ?
Is poison bad I don't know I'm just little old CNBC
¼ what you eat make you alive ¾ what you eat make your laboratory clinic, doctors, pharmacy, hospital alive & RICH
I don't eat any of that crap, and I haven't for 20 yrs now.
To make it last longer and taste better, all kinds of food have some sort of chemicals on it.
Yeeeaaahhhhhhh..... That's kind of what the video is about.
Avoid ultra processed food which is nothing more than junk food, instead prefer fresh fruits, natural juices, homemade meals and as important as drink enough water.
Except they cost twice as much and are half as filling.
mental bandwidth = how many tasks you can do at once or things you can concentrate on
It gets harder and harder for hard working people to find whole foods, produce is very expensive!
5:27 - the food environment, spot on. It needs to change.
You don't have to buy it.
Unfortunately, big business infected big government, and they got together to make it very difficult to eat food the natural and healthy way. The cronyism forced us to eat packaged food. To eat, processed food. You can thank the department of agriculture, the department of commerce, and, all the utility commissions that make it almost impossible to live off the grid. I’m very happy to see people waking up to this. The government shrink.
God's food is better than made man food. Love is stronger than pride🙏🏾
Besides the issue of affordability and convenience, I think a food educational program for the general public would help change eating habits as people have unlearned a hell of a lot about food in the last 50-70 years. Currently most people in the Western world know as much about real food preparation as they know about hunting and gathering.
Ultra processed foods are efficient to manufacture and cheaper to sale. For people that don't have time to cook and cant afford healthy options the choice is between eating unhealthy and reducing their lifespan vs starving at the end of month.
Exactly.
I meal prep and cook. People have always had 24 hours in a day. You just have to manage your time and focus on what's most important. My health is most important so I avoid processed foods. If I have to get anything packaged it can't have more than five ingredients that I am familiar with or it gets left on the shelf.
7:36 Wait, by 2028 Unilever are going to ensure 85% of the FOOD they sell is basically, food. Cook from scratch, people.
85% food, 15% chemicals, is what I think they meant, when even 1% chemicals is too much.
All because today's common diets and foods that we consume are produced by companies who aim down profit first in the industry, rather than public health.
The problem with our food is that so much of it is heavily processed, removing most nutrients and fiber.
Easy its not food..
but what will be the economic impact on healthcare and pharmaceutical industry and overall GDP if people start eating healthy and less people get sick?
Are you concerned with the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry or your health?
Overall GDP would increase, as people would be getting less sick and would be able to work more years before retiring due to disabilities like diabetes. Also, the state budget would be in better condition, as the health system won't need as much financing to support all those disabled due to poor lifestyle. High obesity, heart disease and diabetes rates among population actually cost a lot of money for the state.
Is Zoe not available in Europe?
I get it, its a problem, but her starting off by saying she basically exclusively orders out or eats pre-made meals is a problem in and of itself.
My understanding of the economics of the UK (I'm Canadian) is that lots of flats don't have proper kitchen. So it makes sense for a single person in a small flat to eat lots of prepared meals..
To improve our eating evolution we need to Go back to basics, mother nature foods. Learn to Eat more fruit and veggies. Need to support more agriculture farm produce.
thx sm.
GMO is not the problem, it's really the processing (harmful chemicals) and packaging of food (micro plastics).
Yes. Yes it is
Why? The reporter and the nutritionist never were shown why something was bad. I am a strong believer unprocessed food is always better, but don’t investigate an issue without an argument with facts and data. Being in healthcare reflective studies are not taken seriously. Where are the proactive blind studies? Investors should never be allowed to weigh in on the approach or standards in which a topic is judged. Investors by nature have a biased perspective and therefore need to be censored from scientific approach. I don’t disagree with this article, but I can’t agree with it either. We need to improve our investigative journalism and our threshold for teaching generations how to interpret data.
Europe should do the same as Australia, they have a health star rating
One word Poison!
high process food is cheap
I think we have to realize that most of the food that is not ultra processed is expensive and not something people these days can afford or have the time to cook. While i do agree certain food can lead to problems in health thats inherently a issue with the person eating habits rather then the food itself
unhealthy diets and the lack of sports are the main reasons that make me like I'm pregnant
Reason why kids have allergies and ADHD and Asperger syndrome. Is from parents eating gmo free foods and organic…
This is all by design, especially in the U.S. where the majority of people don’t have time to prep their food due to their hectic schedule. And they’re just looking for a quick fix to hold them over that’s inexpensive. Even worse, besides all of the chemicals, is the fact that Americans make food entraining instead of making it about nutrition with all of these glutinous cooking shows etc…that get people addicted to food, rather than being sensible.
So many folks are navigating food addictions.
Ultra processed food is highly addicted the big companies want to you eat more and they will earn more money.
To answer the title of this video, all foods are composed of chemicals -- and so are we. For example, water (dihydrogen oxide) is a chemical. I hope this helps!
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Genius, beetroot or bell peppers do not contain artificial food colourings like a box of cereal. These cause allergies in children etc etc etc..
ok@@lunar5674
@@lunar5674They also contain chemicals. Oh, and I'm allergic to virtually all animal proteins and many plant-based foods, regardless of the level of processing.
You guys have to learn of how to make home food from essentials - meat, potato, cabbage, carrot, onion... UK at least has Gordon Ramsey which wrote a book - 100 quick and easy recipes; frozen semi-finished products are much faster and easer to cook and cook from essentials takes much more time but in that case you know what do you eat and arguments like: have no time, tons of works.. lets be honest - we just lazy in most cases
Now, I’m v against upf. But if you look in the ingredients of Charlie Bingham meals they have very similar ingredients to what you would cook with at home. I’ve no seen any strange chemicals or anything I haven’t got in my cupboard that’s why I’m happy to pay the (very high) price for them even though I’m v poor!
Labels are so important. There is a time and place for food processing, and not all processes food (even ultra processed) ae created equal!
Very simple - hyper palatable, shelf life, targeted marketing to kids - all for Profit, which means it’s worst for health
Because those chemicals are in the soil and air they are grown in and in the water that waters them. Rain falls through polluted skies.
We need healthier alternatives this is imperative to us. We need also more affordable options. Most of us have no time nor energy ro cook, we should at least not have to worry about the chemicals in our food trying to kill us.
People make all this so dang complicated. Eating healthy is not difficult nor expensive. Whole grains like oats and quinoa, frozen vegetables, legumes and beans, are all really cheap. Fresh fruits and vegetables are only a bit pricier. Find easy dishes to cook from them. Not everything has to be some super involved recipe. On the other hand, the prices of prepackaged food and take out are constantly on the rise while shrinking in volume and quality and are guaranteed to wreak havoc on your health incurring even more costs.
Why are salad bars so expensive compared to fast food joints?? If there is a balance in these kind of food choices it will be better in leading people to eating & choosing healthier food
I hate all modern food! ...except pretzels, of course...and ice cream...a loaded baked potato is nice...and those little pink and white candies with licorice inside. I love those!
I'm vegetarian, except steak... I love steak! Friends
Wait did she confuse industrial revolution and germ theory timelines ? Some 20 years between the end of industrial revolution and the finding of pasturing let alone finding a way to industrialisation of pasturing
Calling the UPF sector the largest *manufacturing* industry in the UK really brings the point home. But I can't imagine a daily 14h food break to "let gut bacteria rest".
8pm to 10am is 14 hours. It's not impossible, although... I think exactly 14 hours is probably the ideal and not totally necessary.
Agreed, people need to pub crawling through the night into the wee hours.
People do intermittent-fasting all the time, though -- usually 16 or even 18 hours per day, in fact. It gets much easier after a while.
I breakfast at 10am, dine at 7pm, and don't snack. That's more than 14hrs, easy.
@@annalieff-saxby568 I'm in Spain where meals trend a bit on the late side, so I eat at some point between 12 and 2pm, and then again before 8pm -- one is a big meal and the other one medium, whichever I feel like first. It has been going wonderfully for me.
Charge 10 cents for each percentage point of sugar in a product.
We should be eating foods that are not highly processed. A diet of meat, fish, fruits, and vegetables. There are too many dangerous chemicals in our food chain. Such as herbicides, pesticides, and preservatives. There is too much gluten, sugar, and dairy. Our ancestors did eat these substances.
One reason Im not considering moving into a developed country is this, Id be forced to eat dead ultraprocessed food
Don’t be ridiculous. Nobody can force you to eat. I buy fresh fruit, veggies and protein (meat, seafood). I cook my own food. Takes planning and work but I’m used to it.
@@LT-pp1je Well, I look at bowels as part of my job and I see a very low incidence of diverticular disease, bowel cancers , and IBD etc when compared to infectious diseases In here-"The third world". The thing with infectious diseases is you could get rid of them quite easily, It could be genetics and hundred other things but my guess is its the diet. After all what's the point of life if you cannot"achieve" a satisfactory bowel movement first thing in the morning 😁