Ultra-Processed People

[Fairislefandango]

Anyone read this? I'm currently listening to it as an audiobook and it's really enlightening, if depressing! After spending years on and off various diets and ending up back where I started, I'm thinking that cutting out UPF is the only sane thing left to try.

@pimenttel01 your Facebook page is great. Those Asda yogurts look great. I wonder how long until supermarkets catch on and start branding stuff with a non upf logo

Oh God, I did... It is freaking out how some products made available in supermarkets? It's been a bit of a wake-up call for me and my friend. We've been absolutely shocked by how many so-called "health" options are loaded with all sorts of nasty ingredients. It's insane, right?

It is! Yoghurt is one of the most wild to me, natural plain yoghurt is just milk and with some fruit added tastes really good, the ones marketed as healthy have a shit storm of ingredients. The natural plain yoghurt is cheaper per 100g than 99% of them too. Unfortunately as soon as food because a profit spinner that became the priority rather than people's health. It's funny as well how we as a society see eating a balanced, nutritious and 'natural' diet ie unprocessed or little processes foods as diet culture whereas eating crap is seen as the default.

Yogurts, bread and breakfast cereals must be the three worst products for convincing the general public that they are a staple in a healthy diet. When the ingredient list are some of the worst. We eat a lot of home made pancakes now. And bake our own biscuits. Two things that the food industry would have us believe are bad for us

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Torres-Extra-Virgin-Potato-Crisps/dp/B00K5TGQBI/

You can buy in bulk in smaller bags too, if you google around. They are pricey, but I find we only buy them as a treat once in a while so don't notice the price that much.

Baking our own Oreos was a winner here - although it's a trickyish recipe and contains a fuckton of sugar - but it's brilliant as an alternative treat, my daughter is obsessed with Oreos. At least this way there are no additives, and I quite enjoy baking with her when I've got the time. All I needed to buy was dark cocoa powder (Dr Oetker one seemed the healthiest).
https://tasty.co/recipe/homemade-oreos