This is extremely frustrating and triggering for me. Let me just start by saying that my partner is a brilliant stem scientist with a degree in microbiology currently getting a degree in biochemistry. He was at one point considering doing nutritional science and personal training. He is highly allergic to soy and if he even touches it he gets a rash. It's unfortunately in pretty much everything here in the united states and often mislabeled as natural flavors and monodyglycerides and other sneaky words for soy. Soy allergens are on the rise. He's also working on figuring out ways to clean up the local waterways that are full of toxic algae blooms called cyanobacteria which create dead zones and cause ALS in humans and sometimes kill or make dogs very sick. All the soy corn and wheat monocultures are heavily sprayed many times with glyphosate which is a big cause of cyanobacteria. Eating more soy and other monocultures is NOT healthy or good for the environment. Nor is eating less meat. Yes we should get rid of factory farming and monocultures which are often exploitive for the environment and the animals and the workers. That's why I buy primarily grass fed beef. We both support permaculture and regenerative agriculture which includes the rotational grazing of animals and helps to sequester carbon and solve climate change. The reason this is so triggering for me is partly because I despise Trump and I despise RFK Jr. Neither one has a chemistry degree and can tell anyone what any of these ingredients actually are and what they mean and do. But my partner can. So I agree with you as does my friend who was also a butcher that the term ultra processed foods is misleading and silly. But YOU are NOT the person in a place to be able to have this discussion. It's actually hurting the discussion we need to be having. The latest nutritional science is clear that saturated fats are not the problem. They are found in our breast milk and brains. I would watch the Adam ruin's everything video called low fat foods are making you fatter and how the sugar industry was paid to do faulty science wrongly blaming saturated fats and meat as the problem. We now know that cholesterol isn't the problem it's showing up to help fix the problem. I know this sounds like crazy conspiracy stuff. I thought so to at first. But this is coming from many doctors and good nutritional scientists. I now cook in primarily grass fed beef tallow and lard and coconut oil and sometimes olive oil. Nobody wants to eat food with no fats and no sugar and no salt. I don't know any adult who would eat that way. That's part of how we got into this mess in the first place. In the 80s they had all of these low fat cookies and crackers and other products and they just replaced the fat with sugar or salt because otherwise it's like eating cardboard and no one would eat it. Fat is not the enemy and is not bad for you. In fact saturated animal fats are saitiating and more filling and so one eats less. We shouldn't have so many sugary carbs as the main source of breakfast for kids school breakfast. The federal government guidelines are awful. I have adrenal fatigue and so I actually need more salt than other people who don't. Some people need less salt. I think if we want to look at specific ingredients in foods that could be causing issues that's fine. Like certain artificial flavors and colors. But to just talk about getting rid of ALL frozen meals or ALL chips and soda and desserts is ridiculous and silly. I don't think people understand what the word processing means or the term ultra processing. When we butcher meat and render fat that's processing food. That's something that's necessary and most people don't want to or know how to do at home. That's how we get chicken breasts versus chicken thighs or drumsticks. We can easily make these foods with better ingredients that are less hyper stimulating and addicting. Sugar also isn't the enemy everyone thinks it is either. But obviously we have waay to much junk food and desserts easily available at every gas station and corner convenience store. And there are many complicated reasons why people eat too much of it. Sugar Is healthy and full of nutrients when used appropriately. My friend uses it combined with lots of protein when he makes Brownies to use before a gym workout to gain muscle and be healthy. We also do keto and intermittent fasting the day after keto twice a week. I like to cook and sometimes I even love it. But I don't want to cook every single meal from scratch every single night and morning. Sometimes we are just tired or don't feel well or are a single mom working full time and just need something quick and easy. I should be able to buy frozen chicken patties or a frozen dinner or boxed Annie's macaroni and cheese and Grass fed hot dogs. You add some steamed broccoli on the side and there's nothing wrong with that meal especially for a growing child. Also we shouldn't be shaming and blaming the working poor and middle class especially people who live in food desert areas and don't have a choice about what to eat. My partner doesn't have a choice because of his severe food allergen. So we buy lots of local organic handmade breads and tortillas that taste amazing and have limited ingredients. But he can basically never eat out at any restaurant. And can't buy generic breads. But the amount of ingredients doesn't tell one how healthy a particular food is. It's WHAT the ingredients are. Anyway more fake soy products and less meat are not the answer to solving climate change. We must divest off ALL fossil fuels and hold these large corporations including the military industrial complex accountable and work towards creating more walkable cities and robust public transportation and less cars and driving for the environments sake and for peoples lives. This problem isn't going to be solved by individual choices. It must be solved by the government. And in order to actually do that we must get corporate money out of politics. The next 4 years is going to be a nightmare. But we have to have conversations that are hard and complicated. It's not as simple as ALL processed foods are bad or good. It's much more complicated. Many things that sound scary to a lay man are actually just vitamins. Polysorbate 80 is essentially just corn and corn oil processed in a way that makes it more appropriate for the food it's in. I believe it makes things stick together more Anyway thank you for coming to my ted talk!! ..lol😊
Excellent pov. I bet deeper research into this would prove it right.
Splitting hairs over semantics.
This is extremely frustrating and triggering for me. Let me just start by saying that my partner is a brilliant stem scientist with a degree in microbiology currently getting a degree in biochemistry. He was at one point considering doing nutritional science and personal training.
He is highly allergic to soy and if he even touches it he gets a rash. It's unfortunately in pretty much everything here in the united states and often mislabeled as natural flavors and monodyglycerides and other sneaky words for soy. Soy allergens are on the rise. He's also working on figuring out ways to clean up the local waterways that are full of toxic algae blooms called cyanobacteria which create dead zones and cause ALS in humans and sometimes kill or make dogs very sick. All the soy corn and wheat monocultures are heavily sprayed many times with glyphosate which is a big cause of cyanobacteria. Eating more soy and other monocultures is NOT healthy or good for the environment. Nor is eating less meat. Yes we should get rid of factory farming and monocultures which are often exploitive for the environment and the animals and the workers. That's why I buy primarily grass fed beef.
We both support permaculture and regenerative agriculture which includes the rotational grazing of animals and helps to sequester carbon and solve climate change.
The reason this is so triggering for me is partly because I despise Trump and I despise RFK Jr. Neither one has a chemistry degree and can tell anyone what any of these ingredients actually are and what they mean and do. But my partner can. So I agree with you as does my friend who was also a butcher that the term ultra processed foods is misleading and silly. But YOU are NOT the person in a place to be able to have this discussion. It's actually hurting the discussion we need to be having.
The latest nutritional science is clear that saturated fats are not the problem. They are found in our breast milk and brains. I would watch the Adam ruin's everything video called low fat foods are making you fatter and how the sugar industry was paid to do faulty science wrongly blaming saturated fats and meat as the problem. We now know that cholesterol isn't the problem it's showing up to help fix the problem. I know this sounds like crazy conspiracy stuff. I thought so to at first. But this is coming from many doctors and good nutritional scientists. I now cook in primarily grass fed beef tallow and lard and coconut oil and sometimes olive oil. Nobody wants to eat food with no fats and no sugar and no salt. I don't know any adult who would eat that way. That's part of how we got into this mess in the first place. In the 80s they had all of these low fat cookies and crackers and other products and they just replaced the fat with sugar or salt because otherwise it's like eating cardboard and no one would eat it. Fat is not the enemy and is not bad for you. In fact saturated animal fats are saitiating and more filling and so one eats less. We shouldn't have so many sugary carbs as the main source of breakfast for kids school breakfast. The federal government guidelines are awful.
I have adrenal fatigue and so I actually need more salt than other people who don't. Some people need less salt. I think if we want to look at specific ingredients in foods that could be causing issues that's fine. Like certain artificial flavors and colors. But to just talk about getting rid of ALL frozen meals or ALL chips and soda and desserts is ridiculous and silly. I don't think people understand what the word processing means or the term ultra processing. When we butcher meat and render fat that's processing food. That's something that's necessary and most people don't want to or know how to do at home. That's how we get chicken breasts versus chicken thighs or drumsticks. We can easily make these foods with better ingredients that are less hyper stimulating and addicting.
Sugar also isn't the enemy everyone thinks it is either. But obviously we have waay to much junk food and desserts easily available at every gas station and corner convenience store. And there are many complicated reasons why people eat too much of it. Sugar Is healthy and full of nutrients when used appropriately. My friend uses it combined with lots of protein when he makes Brownies to use before a gym workout to gain muscle and be healthy. We also do keto and intermittent fasting the day after keto twice a week.
I like to cook and sometimes I even love it. But I don't want to cook every single meal from scratch every single night and morning. Sometimes we are just tired or don't feel well or are a single mom working full time and just need something quick and easy. I should be able to buy frozen chicken patties or a frozen dinner or boxed Annie's macaroni and cheese and Grass fed hot dogs. You add some steamed broccoli on the side and there's nothing wrong with that meal especially for a growing child.
Also we shouldn't be shaming and blaming the working poor and middle class especially people who live in food desert areas and don't have a choice about what to eat. My partner doesn't have a choice because of his severe food allergen. So we buy lots of local organic handmade breads and tortillas that taste amazing and have limited ingredients. But he can basically never eat out at any restaurant. And can't buy generic breads. But the amount of ingredients doesn't tell one how healthy a particular food is. It's WHAT the ingredients are. Anyway more fake soy products and less meat are not the answer to solving climate change. We must divest off ALL fossil fuels and hold these large corporations including the military industrial complex accountable and work towards creating more walkable cities and robust public transportation and less cars and driving for the environments sake and for peoples lives. This problem isn't going to be solved by individual choices. It must be solved by the government. And in order to actually do that we must get corporate money out of politics. The next 4 years is going to be a nightmare. But we have to have conversations that are hard and complicated. It's not as simple as ALL processed foods are bad or good. It's much more complicated. Many things that sound scary to a lay man are actually just vitamins. Polysorbate 80 is essentially just corn and corn oil processed in a way that makes it more appropriate for the food it's in. I believe it makes things stick together more
Anyway thank you for coming to my ted talk!! ..lol😊
For pity’s sake…..
Excellent points made.
This is one of the dumbest, most ill informed things I've listened to in a while.