What is an Ultra-processed food?
These are food that are industrially produced. They require machinery and they require ingredients that you don’t have access to. Industrialized food are designed to be irresistibly delicious – that’s their purpose.
⁃Marion Nestle, Molecular Biologist & Nutritionist
Examples of Ultra-processed food:
⁃breakfast cereals, granola and protein bars, diet food, ice cream, ham, sausages, instant soups, mass-produced bread, frozen diners, sauces, yogurt, soda beverages, coke, Doritos and Oreo cookies.
⁃and 7-11? Check it out.
“Hyperpalatable Food”
⁃Combinations of nutrients that typically don’t occur in nature, and they tend to be really rewarding to consume in a kind of an unnatural way.
⁃We find ourselves continuing to eat these food even though we’re getting physiological signals telling us to stop, we’ve had enough.
-Tera Fazzino, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psych, Univ of Kansas “Studies on Hyper-palatable Food”
Food supply:
1988: ~50% of the food supply
was ultra-processed food
2018: ~69% of the food supply
was ultra-processed food
… and they are hurting our health.
Ultra-processed Food are designed to maximize company profits, not health.
It’s the nature of human, that when it tastes good and pleasurable, it’s hard for us to differentiate between what is right and what is bad.
“When a person poisons a person, he gets jailed.
When corporations poison a nation, they get rewards.”
Salute to the men in uniform who sacrifice their lives for the country!
Happy Memorial Day! 
From,
R. De La Rosa, MD
May 27, 2024
