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by tracker1 1153 days ago
Unfortunately, big business, the seventh day adventist church, the medical training schools and the government have an incestuous, in-bred relationship that isn't based on what's best for humanity. It's more about a combination of religious doctrine (veganism) and industry trends towards maximizing profit more than anything else.

A lot of industrial "food" was started here... Often, the discoveries of good vs. bad in terms of new "food" can take 3-5 generations for the issues to show up in people. For example, Omega 6 fatty acids are 25-40% of fats in American bodies today vs 1900, where it was closer to 2-3%. Likely a factor in a lot of endemic issues with hormone production today. That doesn't account for modern wheat being a multiplier in terms of histamine response (often confused with glucose intolerance).

I'm not strictly anti-gmo, or against processing food... but it's a matter of extent, and what one mixes in to what is natural and what is so refined it no longer resembles real foot. Even then, hyper-palatability is another issue. There's also the half century push for reducing dietary cholesterol and saturated fats that has become ingrained in culture..