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by toasty228 5 days ago
> Whatever people were eating even 200 years ago have literally nothing to do with fruits and veggies we have now after selection and artificial evolution usually via radioactive exposure because GM is baaad.

You sure about that?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10969708/

> In the last sixty years, there has been an alarming decline in food quality and a decrease in a wide variety of nutritionally essential minerals and nutraceutical compounds in imperative fruits, vegetables, and food crops.

> Chemical composition have nothing to do with it. Too much of sugar or salt or some other things is the problem though.

No shit sherlock, the very exact things ultra processed food are riddled with, I'm truly shocked

This thread is full of people listing all the arguments against ultra processed food while failing to connect the dots to the conclusion, it's very perplexing

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> No shit sherlock, the very exact things ultra processed food are riddled with, I'm truly shocked

My whole point is that foods don't have to be ultra processed to be shit to your health. You can make shitty unhealthy food either way.

You can just eat too much of dried mangos or raisins and it's gonna be more unhealthy than McDonald's burger with cola.