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Re:How processed foods became so unhealthy by crazygringo on Thursday June 10, 2021 @06:35PM (#27466748)
The quoted epidemiologist says "These substances would not be found in our kitchen."

I'm not disagreeing at all about refinement or the health. I'm just saying these refined substances are absolutely found in our kitchen, and used in quantity. They're nothing special or unique to processed foods.

If you bake bread or cake or brownies, for basic recipes it's nutritionally virtually identical to processed crackers, cookies, and bars.

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Re:How processed foods became so unhealthy by drewcoo on Thursday June 10, 2021 @06:49PM (#27466919)
This is the other half of that quote, if we want to take it in context: "Usually, they contain little to no proportion of real foods."

And those sentences were likely in a larger context but chosen by the author as a way to say something the reader could relate to.

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Re:How processed foods became so unhealthy by hallway_monitor on Thursday June 10, 2021 @08:01PM (#27467668)
Simple truth - anything made with flour and sugar is literally poisoning you, whether quickly or slowly. Doesn't matter how much love your Nana added to the cookies; they still give you diabetes.
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Re:How processed foods became so unhealthy by germinalphrase on Thursday June 10, 2021 @11:27PM (#27468942)
They potentially give you diabetes.
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