Harmful were an Alternative Rock / Indie band from Frankfurt am Main / Germ… Read Full Bio ↴Harmful were an Alternative Rock / Indie band from Frankfurt am Main / Germany. They were frequently likened to early Helmet and occasionally to Blackmail

Harmful was originally a trio, founded in 1992 by members Aren Emirze, Chris Aidonopoulos and Nico Heimann. Their 2007 album 7 was produced by former Faith No More bassist and record producer Billy Gould who subsequently joined the band as a fourth member.

Album discography:
* 1995: Harmful (BluNoise)
* 1997: Apoplexy.136 (BluNoise)
* 2000: Counterbalance (Firestarter/BMG)
* 2001: Wromantic (Firestarter/BMG)
* 2003: Sanguine (Steamhammer/SPV)
* 2005: Sis Masis (Nois-o-Lution)
* 2007: 7 (Nois-o-Lution)
* 2010: Cause (PIAS)

Recipe
Harmful Lyrics

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One day you look up and you realize that
All you've got ain't enough
Don't wanna lose the time that
I've got to ease my mind
Let me grow in your dying shade
I'll feel better than before
I'm not trying to get in your way
Unless you say so

I got the recipe
Ain't gonna tell no one
Got the specialty
Ain't gonna tell no one
Now you feel alright
Try to get some time
You might be dead and your options decrease
Would you say: what a beautiful defeat?
You have the symptoms but not the disease
In your mind's eye
I got the recipe
Ain't gonna tell no one
Got the specialty
Ain't gonna tell no one
Now you feel alright
Try to get some time

Cross the border line
Close the door

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Harmful's song Recipe convey a message of self-discovery and self-care. The song begins with the realization that all that we have may not be enough to bring us the peace of mind we seek. It urges us to take the time to grow and nurture ourselves, just like a plant growing in the shade to become stronger. The singer declares that they do not want to interfere in someone else's life unless it is their wish.

The chorus, "I got the recipe, ain't gonna tell no one," suggests that the singer has found a way to achieve this peace of mind, a recipe or a method that works for them. Still, they do not wish to share it with anyone else as each person's journey is unique. The lyrics highlight the importance of taking control of our lives and being authentic to ourselves in our quest for happiness.

Overall, the song Recipe is a reflection on the importance of self-care and the value of having a personal recipe or method for achieving inner peace. It reminds us that each person's journey is unique and that we should not impose our beliefs or methods on others.

Line by Line Meaning

One day you look up and you realize that
There comes a time when you finally figure out that

All you've got ain't enough
What you have may not be sufficient

Don't wanna lose the time that
I want to make the most of the time that

I've got to ease my mind
I have available to clear my head

Let me grow in your dying shade
Allow me to take refuge in your fading light

I'll feel better than before
I will find solace and improve upon my current state of being

I'm not trying to get in your way
I do not aim to hinder or obstruct you

Unless you say so
Unless you notify me otherwise

I got the recipe
I have the formula

Ain't gonna tell no one
I will not divulge this information

Got the specialty
I am privy to this unique knowledge

Now you feel alright
You are now okay

Try to get some time
Do attempt to find some spare time

You might be dead and your options decrease
Given that you may someday pass on, your prospects become limited

Would you say: what a beautiful defeat?
May you reflect: what a magnificent triumph?

You have the symptoms but not the disease
You exhibit the indications but not the ailment itself

In your mind's eye
Within your imagination

Cross the border line
Transcend the established limits

Close the door
Shut out external interference

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VOLightPortal

46w↑2

I agree with Susan. These news media channels have a responsibility to broadcasting scientifically sound concerns surrounding health and our food that are accurate and not misleading.

Rather than resort to low quality news reporting as if trying to teach a baby 1+1=2, they should stop assuming the masses are stupid and try to expand more on the issue and strive for accuracy of reporting, introduce nuance, and avoid framing the issue in black and white.

Like everyone knows processed foods as a general rule of thumb, might probably not be as healthy as eating more whole food plant based, but not all processed food or processed ingredients are necessarily bad (i.e. tomato paste, vinegar?). For all we know, some ultra-processed plant based product meat alternatives might even have real health benefits!

Also lumping all emulsifiers as if it's the culprit seems a bit strange, as this video seems to be giving off, and may hugely misinform the public as anyone could misinterpret the video as such. They could have been more helpful by telling us a few more names of different emulsifiers (the video only mentions there are around 60 of them, but only names 1) and go into more detail why they might be problematic and which ones are safe. And then cite reference to a systematic review or RCT study to back it up. It's not that difficult and should be the bare minimum requirement.

It's this kind of shoddy doomsday low quality journalism that ends up with swaths of people wrongly believing vaccines cause autism, or 3G causes cancer, and other hogwash.

Ron Lentjes

40w↑2

I just ate one bag of SunBites Grain waves cheddar Chips and have very bad Reflux / Heart Burn. Initially just after eating them, I felt slightly high from them. I have not felt like that for so long because I eat no junk food for so long. Just goes to show you how bad junk food is. Here is ingredients:

Wholegrain Cereals (68%) (Corn (41%), Wheat (23%), Oats (4%)), Sunflower Oil And/Or Canola Oil, Sugar, Rice, Maltodextrin, Whey Powder (Milk), Cheese Powder (Milk), Salt, Yeast Extract, Buttermilk Powder (Milk), Mineral Salt (Potassium Chloride), Onion Powder, Natural Flavours (Milk), Garlic Powder, Food Acid (Citric Acid), Spice (Black Pepper), Natural Colour (Paprika Extract), Antioxidants (Tocopherols, Ascorbic Acid, Rosemary Extract).

Here is my quick breakdown:

Cereals BAD,
Corn BAD,
Wheat BAD,
Oats BAD,
Sunflower Oil And/Or Canola Oil BAD (ALL these GMO)
Sugar BAD,
Rice BAD GMO,
Maltodextrin BAD,
Whey Powder (Milk) Aluminum,
Cheese Powder (Milk) Aluminum,
Salt Aluminum,
Yeast Extract,
Buttermilk Powder (Milk) Aluminum,
Mineral Salt (Potassium Chloride) NOT NaCl - BAD Salt and Aluminum,
Onion Powder Aluminum,
Natural Flavours (Milk) - could be any number of chemicals,
Garlic Powder Aluminum,
Food Acid (Citric Acid) ???,
Spice (Black Pepper),
Natural Colour (Paprika Extract), Antioxidants (Tocopherols, Ascorbic Acid, Rosemary Extract) - chemicals used for extraction.

Extract: unlisted chemicals used in extraction process.

Aluminum: Salt and most powders nowadays used Neurotoxic Aluminum based anti caking agents.

A bag of poisons.
And Happy Alzheimer's Day to boot.

All comments from YouTube:

ساحل خان

46w↑1.5K

This should be required viewing for everyone, The food industry needs to be put in the spotlight like tobacco was.

LLemonSS

46w↑20

Absolutely, I couldn't agree more.

Michael H

46w↑15

Just one more - "Super size me" has been watched by millions and fast food is still making record profits.

LLemonSS

46w↑6

@Michael H Yup, I saw that back when I was a teenager, and there was a follow up he did that I haven't watched.

I think the follow up was to do with fried chicken.

Winston Ingram

46w↑2

@Michael H Yeah, because it tastes amazing

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Dirk D

46w↑875

I am an American that completely cut Processed foods from my diet over 2 years now. I have been able to lose over 135lbs - 9.64 stone in 27 months. I went from 314lbs - 22.42 stone to 174lbs 12.42 stone. 80% to 90% of the food I now purchase is from the fresh produce department. I also walk at least 2 hours every day. My Doctor informed me I have done what only 1% of the American population can do. I call it box food. Stop eating box food.

Jeff G

46w↑13

I eat mostly organic now, and no junk. Makes a big difference.
Now - are you in the 3% that doesn't watch television?

Nanny Oggins

46w↑11

Well done, you’re a fine example, so glad you’re healthy again.

Al K

46w↑6

that´t terrific....pure willpower

Pedros B

46w↑1

Thanks

Beepboopbeep

46w↑13

How do you even do this? Peetty much everything is processed

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G1

46w↑371

A healthy tip I'd share is to learn how to make some of the foods you might regularly like to eat, such as bread, almond/nut milk, or even peanut butter, yourself. It's actually not that hard to make many foods from scratch, and by using raw ingredients (preferably organic) you can skip all the additives and junk you normally get when buying pre-made items off the shelf and potentially save a decent amount of cash too.

ZERO Time

46w

Any useful channels you've found?

G1

46w↑3

@ZERO Time Personally, no one in particular, just usually like to compare videos or recipes on Google from multiple sources in order to get ideas of how something can be made. Someone else here my have a good specific source to suggest though.

Al D

46w↑7

It took me a couple tries at bread making, but it's actually ridiculously easy. Now I do it every weekend, to have bread for the week.

Dirk D

46w↑3

I have removed all flour and from my diet.

Faith

46w↑6

@Dirk D
Me too. Flour caused me very bad enzyma. I eat more plant based diet, much better skin n digestive system improved a lot. No meat.

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möchtegern däne

46w↑504

It is a total tragedy, that cooking has been taken off the school curriculum in many countries. When I was in 5th grade, many years ago, the boys in my class were among the first to choose between cooking and (the traditional) woodwork. We all chose cooking - and I became quite good at it. Today, I NEVER buy processed foods - I cook from the bottom up. And - if you know, what you are doing, you can make a great, and cheap, dinner in 12 minutes.
Oh - and tell your sons, that being a good cook is one of the best pickup moves around.

Tasty Pymp

46w↑5

They can learn it at home. Why do you expect the school to solve everything?

Weird guy

46w↑3

That wouldn’t solve anything, remember when Jamie Oliver showed how chicken nuggets are made, they stil eat it, same thing for everyone 😂

Global ist

46w↑21

@Tasty Pymp if only at the very least they wouldn't serve this crap food in schools it would be a huge advancement. They're actually letting kids down and ensuring their disadvantage vs a privileged brat going to a private school with meals offering proper nutrition.

Tasty Pymp

46w

@Global ist You get what you pay for.

möchtegern däne

46w↑14

@Tasty Pymp It is not just a matter of money: My kids went to a private school, where breakfast and lunch were served. Porridge and berries is cheap, healthy and nutritional. (And it is only half the price of the Kellogs sugary shit).
Why schools should get involved? Easy.

There has been an incredible loss of knowledge when women started working. (I am NOT saying that cooking is a womans job). Many recipes are forgotten.

Today not many people know, what is in season. And they would not know how to deal with root veggies f.i.

But yes - people also have a responsability to cook with their kids. My Kids must have been two-three years old, when they started "helping", when I baked bread or buns.

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Evan

45w↑36

I read science research paper on this a year or two ago and it was interesting. Fascinating to see it in video form as well, especially in a non-US context because their "ultra processed food" is nothing compared to the level of processing we have here

jeonlyxoxo

46w↑123

We're all well aware of the issues with ultra-processed food. At some point in our lives, we've all heard about it. The problem is, many can't afford to prepare wholesome meals. Ultra-processed food is simply cheaper, while some folks are already addicted to the chemicals within these foods. Others, they simply couldn't care less.

Mage's Almanac

46w↑33

Cheaper for a little while, more expensive in the long run when it comes to medical costs. Also, if people could resist the convenience factor and do meal prep at home, it can be cheaper. Buy in bulk, Cook in bulk, freeze the rest, it’s easy.

gennaterra

46w↑25

@Mage's Almanac Totally agree... cabbage costs NOTHING compared to process food... it's just not "cool food" Once can argue organic not being affordable, but a good amount of whole foods are affordable

lep loeo

46w↑15

Thats not true, at least here in france.

I never eat processes foods, and when i go to the groceries with friends, i am always the one who pays the least.

Processes food actually costs a lot

Paulina Parzych

45w↑27

Thats a big myth. Healthy food can be cheaper than processed one.

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Catherine LW

45w↑135

My parents were from the Depression-era generation. Growing up in the 60's and 70's, we grew all our own organic fruits and vegetables, canned everything for winter, made everything from scratch, bought all our milk, sausage, cheese and eggs from local farmers. Now, people can't even make a pie crust or put flour, baking soda and salt together for cakes or pancakes without using some kind of pre-mixed crap with additives. Cooking and canning has become a lost art.

Bad Introvert

45w↑1

Is a cake or pancake a kind of processed food, right? :)

Gary Everitt

45w↑13

@Bad IntrovertIt wouldn't be ultra processed though

Hana

41w↑9

@Bad Introvert Processing is fine. People (hominids, really), have been cooking, salting, drying, mashing - processing - food for hundreds of thousands of years. Ultraprocessing is completely different

m g

40w↑8

@Bad IntrovertThe issue is who is doing the processing and why. Is it a company, looking to maximize turnover and profit or you (or a loved one), looking to feed your family and yourself with something tasty and healthy. This will determine how exactly you process your food and what you put into it.

Sharmarkner

30w

I would love to drink organic milk form cow inshallah one day I can become dairy farmer,,,and pro footballer inshallah

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Martin Ebon

46w↑327

Ive worked in the NHS for about a decade and the healthcare system is focused in curing diseases and not prevention and health promotion. The food industry is also to blame in supermarkets like ASDA, TESCO, Sainsburys have a lot of cheap ultraprocessed food. In a cost of living crisis, the common man will go for the cheap unhealthy options. The poorer your family is the higher likelihood of obesity and chronic medical conditions.

Jen-Yueh Hu

46w↑17

Cheap does not mean unhealthy. The problem is that food industries add things to make food more appealing. eg colourants, emulsifiers, etc. Things to make the food smell/look better or give it a "better" texture.

Briared Path

46w↑16

@Jen-Yueh Hu Buckwheat is cheap and most vegetables,laziness and lack of interest in health is a very real problem.

Winston Ingram

46w↑8

There is no blame. People like eating delicious garbage. That's fine. Let's not be food Nazis

Reasoner Enlightened

46w↑1

is there a machine that can take food and break it down and extract all molecules by type?
instead of eating tomatoes or apples we can just ingest packaged molecules. It will be healthy and this video will be unnecessary.

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Tristan Goddard

37w↑47

I’m actually really upset that I can’t have kids (naturally), because I’ve always been against things like chicken nuggets, chips and pot noodles for kids. I’ve seen so many parents feeding these kinds of things to kids and saying crap like “that’s all they’ll eat” or “I’ve tried giving them healthier food and they won’t have it”, but the funny thing is, kids aren’t born knowing what pot noodle is or chicken nuggets, someone has had to show them!

Netti Gaming

37w

100%

Julia Wigger

34w↑1

It's because the processed food is packed with sugar. I have to make my own bread as I find commercial bread so sweet.

Emily N

33w

Ikr? Of course your kid doesn't like vegetables lol

Child of The Great King

33w↑5

You are right. We are responsible for training our kids what to eat. My daughter doesn't eat or like nuggets, fish fingers, chips, pizza or anything like that because we never offered it to her when she was young. Now she's 9, has never ever eaten McDonalds and happily eats veggies, fruits including avocado, olives, bell peppers, salmon. We also didn't give her much of sweet foods and now she's not really into cake and puddings. The only "junk" she gets to eat is sausages and pancakes on her birthday and Christmas cause you gotta indulge sometimes lol

Timothy Chiu

33w↑3

This is a good piece of article and really good to let people knows what we should do to our health and make a change.

Malphite me bro

46w↑40

It shouldn't be controversial to want healthy, natural food. We should cater to our health and lives above all else.

Mutters Menu

33w↑7

Terrific and very informative video.
In Australia we have the same issue with junk/crap food. I trying to cut processed food out of the diet but it is not always easy. Label reading takes time and some knowledge.
Keep up the work.

David Buckland

45w↑85

The argument about whole foods being more expensive than ultra processed foods is broadly correct. However, it doesn't negate any positive changes you can make, even small. Anything in the right direction is an improvement. An apple is cheaper than a kit kat.

Mike N

45w↑1

It’s not.

Jean paul Tongeren

45w↑8

@Mike N it is kitkat 3 pack is 3 euro's. One apple is 50 cent, a bag full up apples is around 2,50 euro

Jean paul Tongeren

45w

@Mike N 1,5kg apples = 2,50 euro's

Pingu

45w↑12

@Mike N Even here. In the UK, one apple is absolutely cheaper than 1 kitkat

Kasia Petruk

45w↑2

It doesn’t resonate with me that much that non processed is that much more expensive. Buying ready meals regularly each for lets say 3-6 pounds is expensive. For 6 pounds I can get some simple ingredients for home cooked meal that would last longer than one serving of that processed meal. Bag of regular simple oats is cheaper than branded flavored cereals. When I buy at Aldi and stick to staples for my home made stews the bill is always very affordable, it is when I switch to more of “comfort food”, packed food that I wanted to try the bill goes noticeably higher.

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Boop Doop

34w↑6

The only problem I have with this is equating not knowing what a long word in an ingredients list means with that ingredient being unhealthy. “Sodium bicarbonate” is a long couple of words for an ingredient name, so it must be bad right? Nope, it’s just baking soda.

Read the ingredients, absolutely, but just because you don’t recognize something doesn’t automatically make it unnatural and bad.

Zaid Ahmed

46w↑63

Issue isn't always the knowledge something isnt the best for you. They need to also benchmark costs for healthy vs. Unhealthy, very sure it's cost of living pushing even more people towards ultra processed as these are the foods most affordable and with the best deals (offers always at the front of the shops on display). These are the things govt needs to clmap down on and incentivise more lower income households to purchase healthier. Videos like this don't always help as just makes the poor poorer

Blu Tamis

45w↑7

It's being lazy that is making ppl choose products not cost. A pot of soup is always cheaper but it takes effort.

Anna Lieff-Saxby

38w↑7

I really don't agree. It's the narrow-minded "meat and two veg every day" mindset that makes food expensive. Vegetables (particularly when in season) are cheap: I can make half a gallon of soup for less than the cost of a single tin of Heinz.

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Wojtek

34w↑11

Important is that such difference was while their diets were crafted to have the same amount of fiber. In real life, if you eat ultra processed foods instead of whole foods (especially plant ones), your fiber intake will be much, much lower, so the difference will be even worse.

Julia Romanow

45w↑12

In many cases the root cause of this ill-health epidemic is 1) convenience and 2) economic factors. I don't believe most people on the ultra-processed diet do so because they choose to but because that's all they can afford money and time-wise. Maybe the exception can be kids born into such struggling households.

If we make healthy eating easier and more importantly convenient - I mean what's easier to eat when on a bus rushing to work or school, packaged snacks or eggs/salad/any balanced meal? - then we will see nation/global-wide improvements.

Manna Poranna

34w↑1

Somehow the problem is the biggest in the most developed and the wealthiest countries

vallendior

44w↑39

Please use triplets next time. I would love to see one sibling in the middle of the two extreme diets with a more moderate approach to ingesting processed foods. Perhaps moderation will yield the same or nearly the same results as the highly processed diet or maybe moderately consuming processed foods isn’t that bad.

TheJillianJiggss

34w↑17

Eating healthy isnt an extreme diet... She ate a normal balanced diet lol

danceportal06

34w↑14

Eating healthy and at home is not as expensive as I thought. I bought 3 packets of garden salad for $1.88 each at Walmart and it lasted 4-5 days for 2 of us to eat for lunch. Going to a restaurant once and ordering a salad is easily around $10. I feel like you can find healthy food and make it work for your family if you want-it just takes more effort putting it together versus just opening a lid or a box.

I’m not healthy by any means—this video was very motivational. I just noticed the few times I’ve tried to eat healthier that it wasn’t as impossible or expensive as I imagined…

Ryan

33w

Those pre packaged garden salads usually aren't that great either. They tend to use ice Berg lettuce which has little to no nutrients.

Jess T

30w

4-5 days is a crazy amount of time our salads in the UK last a couple of days if you're lucky, wondering what yours was sprayed with.

Inuhund Chien

28w↑2

Don't bother with the nay sayers, you did great trying to control your health.

ZCBeats

28w

Just buy steak bro lol

RandomMetalChick 000

26w

So you only had 1 meal per day and it was just a prepackaged salad? That's not healthy at all, and would be considered starving if a child had to live off salad. Children need a well rounded diet, that includes animal protein, healthy fats, some carbs, and fiber. A lettuce salad is basically all water soluble fiber. Not very nutritional for a developing human.

Irina T

34w↑8

This needs to be shared with more people. Governments need to take action instead of putting bandaids on the issues. Prevent the friggin disease before it starts. Target schools and daycare centers, young mothers and so forth. Not enough work is being done on prevention

Canada-Eh99

46w↑70

My Celiac and diabetes forced me to give up all processed foods. Although whole foods are more expensive, I’ve lost weight, no alcohol, and my blood sugar stays around 120-130 now.

Anonymous

46w

Look up biofilm causing Celiac and diabetes the look up upselling/medical upcoding, gatekeeping/ a limited hangout?

Mytravlz

46w

My dad at 72 after 11 years of diabetes is now a pre diabetic due to diet change and Ayurvedic meds. Only now enlarged prostrate due to age.

KIM FRED

36w↑6

One of the biggest problems is that the ultra processed foods are mostly far cheaper than the unprocessed, or I say, the natural one. This is why so many people have to choose unhealthy, convenient foods 🙁

Mira

35w↑2

Of course it's cheap but at the same time it's expensive also . Later one has to pay for it . Hospital bills and medicines will not be cheap . Plus the body and mind will suffer also 🙂

John Mwakilili

34w↑1

@Mira you hear that... The main word is later.... People live in the now, later will take care of itself

John Utaka

33w↑3

I've been eating processed foods all my life, I'm 27 now, with type 2 diabetes, my fault really but sticking to a good diet is not easy. Not just the fact that I can't force myself to, I can if I try really hard. But it's just that professed foods are more easily accessible and cheaper 😢

Vedant Kale

45w↑12

They should have shown the actual before and after test results for the lipids, sugar etc. This would have given the study more weight. Since, just saying all those things increased usually makes people seriously sceptical due to the vagueness of it. Scientific studies and results should be very accurate.

MrSmeeth

44w

They did say that they only had access to early pre-peer review data.

TAO TOLOGY

43w↑1

Let's not be naive, here.
A diet of healthy, real food is not going to have a worse effect that a highly processed 'food' diet will

Ster

42w↑2

It's not a scientific study at all, no one is saying that it is

Hussain Sajid

45w↑23

I noticed how the diets had matching calories but one of them gained weight but the other one lost weight. Either the ultra processed food companies are lying about the nutrient information or ultra processed foods are easy to eat therefor they require minimal energy to consume. It seems that to lose weight, it's not as simple as eating less and burning more

Andrew Brown

45w↑1

I’d imagine it’ll be something to do with eating the processed foods makes you generally not feel full for longer and the calories are usually more dense then a unprocessed version

GeXExtremist

45w↑8

More likely the ultra processed foods have higher carbs = higher insulin and therefore the storing of fat, also the higher sodium content would of meant higher water weight

TAO TOLOGY

43w↑1

Foods loaded with sugar, especially if they are also moderate/high carbs, stop your body from using your existing fuel stores (fat cells).

Ster

42w↑1

Weight loss and gain isn't just about calories - another lie we've been told about our diets

orange25i

39w

I noticed this also. Very weird/intersting. I assume that i cannot be, that one of the twins led a completly different lifestyle than the other (one only sleeping in for two weeks, while the other doing hardcore fitness training). That of course would cast a highly suspicous light on the study. On the other hand I can't belive, that your train of thought of "ultra processed foods are easy to eat therefor they require minimal energy to consume" could be the reason either. That would mean that the process of eating - e.g. lifting the fork - would differ so siginficantly from the other method of eating (other fork?) that there would be weight difference of +1kg after two weeks!

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Andrew H

46w↑161

Dont processed food tend to be cheaper than fresh whole foods though? How are we going to address that during the current affordability crisis?

K

46w↑11

Community and school gardens, potted vegetables and micro greens at home are solutions growning everywhere. Farmers markets, CSA, too.

M..

46w↑18

⁠⁠@K We do have farmer markets but the price isn’t cheap as well. Potted veg, school gardens and community gardens are not going to produce enough vegetables. And you can’t even have bigger production at home e.g the whole garden because it’s illegal. Once above a certain amount of production you will need to info the gov.

Deep Chaudhary

46w↑5

Come to south Asia it's affordable

Broken Algorithms

46w↑7

Well processed foods are cheaper to produce. So add a tax to processed foods and increase the processed foods to the price of whole foods. Don't forget that farm workers are underpaid as well.

Optimistic Outreach

46w↑14

Cheaper than medical bills...

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Mads

29w

Thank you for sharing this study. The food we consume, even healthy foods are labeled as so have such toxic ingredients! I believe everything in moderation so that way your mental health doesn’t suffer

SummerRuby

29w↑1

I cook the meals my family eats because I grew up eating cooked meals, although what I make is a bit more nutritious. We eat out only a few times a year and I limit the amount of junk my kids eat at home.

The results speak for themselves: this past week ALL the children that live in our apartment complex was sick. All except my daughters. My best friend who lives across the street from me, her 11 year old daughter is way above her weight class, and she might now have diabetes. I have tried for 12 years to convince my friend to change the way she and her kids eat, but she is convinced that her children won't eat healthy.

Here in America, so many people have it in there heads that healthier foods are expensive, yet, the prices of fast food have drastically increased. And I always see long lines at the local McDonald's in my town but the fresh produce aisle are always well stocked. Ridiculous.

Amy

46w↑13

This problem began in the 80’s when schools started serving junk food to kids. Jamie Oliver’s changes didn’t do anything. Schools just didn’t have the knowledge or equipment to make the healthier food. However, unlike smoking ultra processed food is consumed by almost everyone even if they don’t know it.

Tasty Pymp

46w

Of course they had the knowledge.

You need an education.

Tasty Pymp

46w

Unlike smoking?

Never heard of passive smoking?

unknown

46w↑1

It can be thought it important to eat vegetables without making them into smoothies and then to take vitamins and soluble & insoluble dietary fibres . And there are soluble-types and fat-soluble-types in vitamins , and it can be thought it necessary to take a moderate amount of (unoxidized) oil for taking fat-soluble types of vitamins . And moreover it can be thought it healthily good to take an unoxidized fat of such kinds of fish as sardine , mackerel , tuna .

unknown

46w↑1

In addition to the former message ; saury is also included among kinds of fish whose fat is healthily good for us .

unknown

46w↑1

To tell the truth ,
skipjack is also included among sorts of fish with healty fat . But .....
It is said around me that it may well to take dietary fibre , protein , carbonhydrate in these order in one meal .

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Jake R

46w↑31

4:49 Food manufacturers don't care about people's health. It's all about making as much profit as possible. The longer a product can stay on the shelf, with the use of additives and preservatives etc, the more money they can make. Just because something passes current regulations it doesn't mean it's healthy.

Also in the West many people have lost the ability to cook at home from scratch. Parents and schools no longer pass on the necessary skills to children. Whereas in many Asian countries cooking at home from scratch is still a thing and people there are much healthier for it.

weronika

46w↑17

It's even more scary when you think how the ultra-processed foods would've looked in America. I am myself from Europe, but I know that the standard for processed food in general there is terrific, especially in the United States.

the threadworm

46w↑4

"Terrific" isn't the word I think you meant to use.

Moving Targets

46w↑3

@the threadworm terrorising

weronika

46w↑2

@the threadworm Oh ok, sorry. I thought it meant „horrible” (really bad)🤷‍♀️. I’m not native though.

the threadworm

46w↑2

@weronika it's a bit of a strange word. More akin to sublime, but has lost a bit of its meaning. All good

Hannah Greendale

46w↑7

@the threadworm Linguistics fanatic chiming in (highly recommend the book Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper)! By definition, terrific now means "great in size or intense", but its archaic use meant "causing terror", as movingtargets7833 explained. Informally, it means "good or excellent", as you interpreted it. That's the fun of language's fluidity; it's ever evolving. As you said, terrific is a tricky word, and it's myriad meanings require readers to intuit the author's intended use. That said, it's clear that weronika4579's use was intended to mean "causing terror" (i.e., "horrible").

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unknown

46w↑23

The only way to live without ultra-processed food is to cook and eat natural ingredients yourself . Even then , fried foods should be avoided as much as possible . It is so hard for us to live youthfully and healthily .

Glimmmerra

46w↑6

It's not hard at all.

the threadworm

46w↑5

Nothing wrong with fried food. It's what you fry in that matters.

unknown

46w↑1

@the threadworm ← 　
Oil of fried foods becomes oxidised when fried foods are made . Especially oxidation of oil of deeply-fried foods is strong . Oxidised oil seems bad for the body .
Fried meat and fish that use flour or bread crumbs for coating contain substances that proteins and sugars have bonded together . Such substances seem bad for the body .

the threadworm

46w↑4

@unknown don't use seed oils. Tallow or ghee, are fine.

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Shannon Wiggins

34w↑2

There are so many things where you don't see effects until after 4-8 weeks, too. I imagine effects are much worse at that point

3rd Millennium Man

46w↑135

All the time saved by eating "fast food", turns out to be lost by a shortened lifespan.

Alicia Morris

46w↑7

Knowledge is power

Rotormatic

46w↑9

Those fast foods move us closer to our graves faster

Highonlife

46w↑6

Great point. Fast food makes you live fast in a very bad way

Weird guy

46w↑1

The problem is not shortened life span,the problem is that they have lowest quality of life and become a burden for the national health.
Although I don’t know if they dying earlier is still cheaper that living for economy.
With the way things are going,I doubt many people dream of living until 100 years old like before

Calli Cordova

46w↑2

So true, plus the fewer years will be ones where you won't feel well, might have to deal with diabetes, etc.

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Jimmie Lovett

46w↑29

Forks Over Knives people, WFPB (whole food plant-based), some like me take it even further with NO (no oil) and obviously this way of eating means no added sugar, oil, or salt. It’s literally saved my life, reduced my cholesterol to beyond safe levels as well as my triglycerides, healthily dropped from 243lbs to 170lbs all in the span from Sept, 20th 2022 - February, 15th 2023. My skin is super clear now, no aches, pains, etc. lots of other people have freakin’ cured their cancers and other diseases, got off medications, etc. which sounds insane I know, but if it works it works. Here’s to good health for all.

A.

46w↑12

You'll die early of an amino-acid deficiency if you're not supplementing them properly (I assume you at least know how to supplement B-12, though synthetic B-12 is not optimal) and I'd really urge you to increase your cholesterol and instead of focussing on keeping them low focus on keeping a balance between your omega 6 and omega 3 fat intake. I assure you that too low cholesterol is far far more dangerous than high cholesterol.
You may also want to supplement creatine to maintain healthy brain-function and more energy (normally you'd get enough creatine from meat and while your body is capable of synthesizing it you should get more of it to optimize your health).
Also please please make sure you get at least 5 grams of salt a day, the WHO's recommendation of ~3g is not backed by scientific research in the slightest and too low sodium can be really detrimental to your cardiovascular health and brain function.

Please note that this is just some friendly advice and I hope you don't take it as criticism, I just don't like to see people die an early death because they have been ill-informed.

If you'd like to know more about proper health and diet I'd urge you to go to Dr. Eric Berg's youtube channel or use search terms with his name in it.

Optimistic Outreach

46w↑9

Olive oil is the healthiest fat for the body. Lean meat provides 95% of what we need...coupled with a green leafy veg. ANY diet excluding meat or veg is unbalanced.

Optimistic Outreach

46w↑7

@A. Well said...people who are veg only or meat only are in for a big surprise in older age. Balance and moderation are the keys in a healthy diet.

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West London Rider

46w↑7

In a world where whole natural foods are scarce due to the overpopulation of the world, ultra process foods have gained popularity due to the easy of manufacturing compared to cultivation. In terms of making raw ingredients feed more people through processing and addition of chemicals and preservatives.

David Johnson

46w↑4

The world is far from overpopulated. Got rid of processed food and cultivated natural food properly, we wouldn't be here and we wouldn't be here with the list of illnesses either. There are poor kids running around with exacerbated ADHD and diabetes issues just because of processed food.

Tasty Pymp

46w

It isn't overpopulated.

Angela Senator Kennedy sergeant Smirnoff

40w

smirnoff

Josee Noel

46w↑13

What a great documentary, we really 'do' need to be scared 😨 into better diets! My husband and I met in our 30's and he was never allowed to bring kentucky fried chicken into our home, now all chains have been kicked out of Quebec, Canada!

Netti Gaming

37w↑2

I started Intermittent fasting. And it forced me to be careful with my food choices in my eating window. Made me realise what food was spiking my blood sugar. Since learning this ive lost 15kg what we need is food education. Imagine what we could do if everyone wore a continuous glucose monitor.

thefanone

46w↑4

Scientists have said all along that processed food is bad for the body and now the average person can understand why😢😢

Zu Zu🎏

45w↑5

Poor Amy 😅 I know they agreed to do this but having to subject yourself to unhealthy crap like that sounds like an absolute nightmare to me. My body would not be able to handle that much bad fat, sugar and sodium.

lynb87

34w

The main nutrients were equal in both diets and she still fared worse.

Smile on a Plate

45w↑3

At this point in time with so much information accesibile to everyone, not investing time to cook your own meals is wrong. Unfortunately convenience is winning in the developed countries. Such a shame cooking skills are not tought in schools. Such a shame the medical system does nothing to prevent all these deadly deseases. Cooking from scratch is easy and should bring joy and happiness every day to nourish our bodies, not a chore.

mo brown

33w

Wow I’m just 2 weeks, I’m guessing they were eating the same amounts of calories, that is crazy. The blood lipids is what got me that can easily give you a heart attack woooooow, I went to the UK and ate processed food let’s say 4 times a week I gained like 5 Kilos in 5 months when I got of that and ate less processed food in 2 months and I have lost 4 kilos proceed food is not a joke it’s a silent killer

___Beyond Horizon

46w↑6

I am eating healthy in general, once in a while for breakfast, I like pastries because my coffee is without sugar, just coffee and almond milk. I find almond milk to be filling, I think because it's protein , with creamy texture.
Lately I started eating my spring mixed salad greens without any salad dressing most of the time. I put it in my soup, pasta, Chinese noodles, eat it with my omelette. The greens are very tender, it taste yummy 😋 without heavy dressing

SOCOMJON

45w↑2

Advertising of cheap processed foods also needs to be addressed, we’re bombarded by junk food ads that are typically aimed at children, take cereal for example or ‘breakfast desert’ lots of fun colors super sweet highly addictive causes long term developmental issues BUT it’s 100% whole grain (always printed in green to reassure parents that it’s semi healthy and/or environmentally friendly?)
I always wonder do the manufacturers of this crap let their own children eat it?

Rafski travels

46w↑41

So they’ve finally addressed this after a few decades ? Reminds me of the cigarette industry finally coming around and admitting it’s bad for us after several decades. The thing is Anglophone countries especially, don’t place importance on food. So many people have been tricked and just pondered on with ignorance.

Michael H

46w↑3

That info is out there at least since "super size me" 99% of people watching this will go right back by lunch.

Winston Ingram

46w↑1

Don't like it, don't buy it. Nobody thinks it's healthy. We just like delicious junk from time to time

QueBall

46w

Who doesn't know how bad fast food is? We've known for decades lol

Reasoner Enlightened

46w

Why don't they break down each food to its most useful molecules and chemicals that the body needs , then extract them and package them by type of molecule and finally sell it as something we can consume instead of tomatoes, lattice, potatoes, vegetables , fruits, milk butter, coffee, sugar, salt etc.? It eliminates the necessity for all those additional chemicals like stabilisers, coloring, emulsifies, etc.

James Telfer

46w

@Reasoner Enlightened because it would be easier and cheaper just to eat the correct food?
You can't just extract specific compounds by filtration, so you're looking at some kind of process which will separate them, possibly causing unwanted by-products. What are you going to do with the leftover constituents?
What's the problem with just eating a healthy diet?

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T

43w↑2

Interesting. It would have been even more insightful if they switched the diets after 2 weeks

Hs

25w

Thank you bbc for this video. Even though i know its not healthy, i still consume processed food because it tastes better. But what we should keep in mind is that not all tasty foods are necessarily healthy. Let us all develop a healthy diet for healthy future.

Pou1gie1

46w↑19

If governments make processed foods more expensive and less accessible, this would help. Many poor ppl go for fast food and boxed foods because they are cheaper and cooking can be time consuming for a family struggling to find time to cook. Make healthy food less expensive and allow people more time to cook for their families by making the work day have time for ppl to head home and cook for their families. If you get home at 6pm, you aren't going to want to start chopping and cooking for an 1.5 to 2 hrs (which is what it takes me to cook a whole foods meal).

M..

46w↑2

I can’t agree with you. What’s going to happen is companies will stop selling healthy food cause it’s way more difficult to change the working hr for people so people will still buy processed food. And companies will make even more processed food to earn more money.

Broken Algorithms

46w↑8

It only takes 20-30 minutes to cook a quick dinner.

Tasty Pymp

46w↑3

Why do you expect the government to do absolutely everything?

Whats wrong with you?

Glimmmerra

46w

It only takes about half an hour to cook a quick meal, keep it SIMPLE.

Weird guy

46w↑2

Processed are already expensive and people still buy them, probably will change some people but not everyone.
Just how sugar tax decrease some soda consumption but did not errradicated it.
For every “smart person “ there’s thousands of “dumb” ones

robinhood 46

46w↑3

"Food manufacturers take the health of consumers and safety of food they produce seriously"
If this was actually anything remotely resembling the truth, the next part of the declaration would not even be necessary "and adhere to the strict regulations".
The only reason the regulations exist is because the food industry cannot be trusted to take health and safety seriously.

Tony Sherwood

46w↑26

Jamie Oliver tried to get school dinners nutritious (like we used to have) but the school children were already addicted to UPF!

unknown

46w↑2

If you want to live without ultra-processed foods , you shall cook meals with using fresh food by yourself and eat them . Cooking methods should be avoided frying and limited to boiling , baking , and steaming as much as possible .
If you have wealth and property enough like someone , you can do it with using other people .

Tony Sherwood

46w↑1

@unknown I'm eating my streamed asparagus at the moment!

Amy

46w↑1

And this is the generation that are now the under 40’s who are having huge increases in blood pressure and higher rates of diabetes.

Bon Tempo

46w

@unknown Question, what is wrong with frying if you don't use oil ? Heat is heat no ?

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Victor

34w↑2

And this is in the UK where foods have to be proven to not be dangerous before they can be sold.

Nanny Oggins

46w↑27

Its high time the government took more of a role in educating the populace about healthy foods at school level. We are often treated like idiots, told only not to do this or that but with no real scientific explanation! Most adults won’t take advice when it’s simply a command with no explanation. This documentary is a small start but we need a Huberman approach to understand the nitty gritty details!

John Doe

46w↑2

I'm sure labour are on the case and will make it on their to do list when voted in.

Helen Pauls

46w↑1

@John DoeGood for you. Get all parents involved too.

the threadworm

46w↑4

Educate yourself. The government rarely helps anything. I remember them telling everyone to eat margarine, in the 80s and 90s. Now we know that's "ultra processed".

the threadworm

46w↑1

@John Doe you've got a lot to learn.

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Dom Cobb

46w↑44

Plant based meat and non-natural meat products are ultra processed foods btw... Natural meat is still healthier

Tony Sherwood

46w↑7

Tastes like cardboard - I'd rather have mushrooms. I cannot get over the shape and colour - unappetising muck!

P M

46w↑4

How about neither.

the threadworm

46w↑2

@P M how about a balanced diet?

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Dillawer Shehzad

35w

This channel provide a informative content people because they are not aware to this harmful facts that are present in our diet.😮

Susan Mueller

46w↑24

I'm surprised that you would release such information using one 1 twin comparison (N=1) without providing a basic blood panel (profile) to discern how similar the twins health was at the beginning of the extremely small comparison. Additionally, you created this video prior to proper peer reviewed and or double blind studies where scientist can read and evaluate your experimental design, material & methods and statistical analysis. Furthermore, scientist and medical drs understand that you can't reach statistical significance with a comparison of just one set of twins. This can be potentially misleading due to the lack of explanation layman terms (given that your video appears to target this group, in my opinion). It's also misleading when you don't explain that differences correlative or causative results, and that it is often very difficult discern between the two, particularly without any peer reviewed, published research articles about your own research. Much more research must be performed before you can make such assumptions or leaps in interpretation. It would have been more informative and meaningful if you had performed a detailed analysis of eating, exercise, a behavioral comparisons, a baseline, between the twins to determine how similar they were prior to the beginning of your experiment instead of only comparing their eating habits of processed vs nonproceeds foods. I understand that there has been a gathering of data of a large group, but then why haven't you published this information? Why create a video of a comparison of only 1 set of twins? I truly am interested. I've edited this comment to ask if you have considered or tested additional chemicals that are included in processed foods other than emulsifiers - there are so many! Thank you.

ThewayICit

46w↑10

It's a popular science program for the masses, not academic scientific study. Get over yourself.

Susan Mueller

46w↑11

@ThewayICit Wow! Talk about assuming and attacking someone you don't even know! My concern is that incomplete information that has not been adequately proven is being distributed and therefore people may start to believe something that hasn't been adequately proven. It's a concern for others.

Andrew Law

46w↑5

Yes I agree with Susan, science reporting needs peer review prior to reporting. There should also be consequences for misreporting. It’s a shame our state of science education needs media to report to us what to think without relying on the public to think for themselves

VOLightPortal

46w↑2

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NR

46w↑1

Thank you for showing that again and again and again. It is urgent to change, go back in real fields and grow up organic vegetables from organic seeds without pesticides. Urgent to learn back how to make a tomato sauce, with chili if you like it, and stop eating such junk food as we can see on the documentary. From France, with love and care

Tasty Pymp

46w

No, it's not urgent. Get over yourself.

Tasty Pymp

46w

You don't speak on behalf of France.

Weird guy

46w

If you’re happy with lowers crop yealds and expensive food do it.

Gngrcpl

26w

I’m an American. I cut out all processed food meat and dairy a year ago. I’ve lost 90 pounds and feel better than I’ve ever felt. It’s really hard to find restaurants that don’t have processed oils or meat and dairy. Easier in the larger cities. But it is possible.

orange25i

39w

So Dr. Berry and Prof. Spector have just solved world hunger: The diet of the twins are exactly matched for calories, nutrients, fat, sugar and fiber > but after only two weeks the difference is more than 1 kg (one twin gained 1kg, the other lost weight). So this would be ideal to research for emergeny food in a famine striken region to distribute highly effective food.
Lets break down what we know: Obvioulsy the calorie intake (same for both) must actually have been borderline low, so that in the long term the person eating the unprocessed food would actually starve to death if perpetually linearly continuing her diet. Lets say this was 1900 kcal, assuming 2000kcal as necessary to maintain weight. Now they have found a way to make those same 1900kal work in a way that people can gain 1kg/2weeks, meaning they would gain 2kg/month on 1900kcal. That would be absoultely incredible. Or was is wrong in this calculation?

Or is it the other way around? Lets assume, that the baseline would be a +2200kg diet (twin eating processed food), meaning it would be slightly higher than necessary to maintain weight, resulting in net weight gain. This would mean, that even on a weight gain diet caloriewise (same calories) people would be still loosing weight (sister eating unprocessed food). This would mean, this would be the ideal weight loss diet: eating MORE calories than maintenance calories, not doing any sports etc, but still loosing weight.

Unfortunately the exact machanics behind this astonishing discovery are not explained in this video.

Michael H. Gerloff

46w↑6

Great information. And reading some of the comments ultra-processed foods might also impair thinking skills.
(BTW: From a professional point of view, I would have liked the clip to have been edited a little better, without the sound gaps.)

bluelightalarm

46w↑1

Reading the YouTube comments is hardly a scientific approach. What evidence do you have of this impairment on thinking skills - apart from what JoeBloggs94837262749493 said on YouTube 🤔😂

Caoilí O'Neill

46w↑1

Imagine what it would be like over twenty years. 1 kilo every two weeks equals 26 kilo's per year multiplied by 20 for a net gain of 520 kilo's after twenty years...yet I am 53 and have been eating processed food for many years even before it was decided it was bad for you(of course organic is better and I don't dispute that) yet the maths don't work because I eat 3 square a day and have never in my lifetime topped 70 kilo's and let's be honest 520 is a tonne and of course nothing in this video will make you immortal so enjoy your life and food and do refrain from gluttony;) .

James Telfer

46w↑3

Diminishing weight gain over time - as you get fatter, you burn more calories each day just staying the same weight.

TAO TOLOGY

43w

The rapid weight loss/gain seen here would drop off quite a bit after the first few weeks.

For the healthier diet you are losing "water weight" at the start when you reduce/cut out high sugar high carb.

Balla 1527

46w↑22

Unfortunately British lifestyle (worked to the bone live like a peasant) isn't compatible with a healthy diet that you prepare yourself from the ground up. Many of us will continue to eat ultra processed food because we don't have time in our day to cook properly.

John Doe

46w↑1

"worked to the bone, live like a peasant"😂😂😂

Winston Ingram

46w↑4

We do. Nobody is too busy to prepare good quality food. Just too lazy

Balla 1527

46w↑4

@Winston Ingram I'm not talking retired people. I'm talking the working class, the ones who struggle to pay bills every month, you know, the exploited majority.

Balla 1527

46w↑6

@Winston Ingram also, quality food is just too expensive for the normal adult that has to work 12 hours a day to put a roof over their head.

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MADREDUNITED

45w↑4

The assumption is that everybody lives at home with a beautiful island in their kitchen, great facilities and resources to cook healthy nutritional meals... Totally ignoring the fact that most people living off ready meals do it because we can't afford alternative or do not have the facilities to cook healthy meals each day

Vernelle Douglas

46w↑17

At present income and availability affect diet. At the school level, government and corporate citizens have to work together to institute food programmes and education that promote health, balance and moderation. Sometimes a school meal is all a little one gets per day.

Optimistic Outreach

46w

I can eat 400g chicken breast, 500g of spinach and whole wheat pasta with tomato and olive oil...mineral water...for 6 bucks a day. Price is another chubby excuse...

Tasty Pymp

46w

That smacks of indoctrination.

Weird guy

46w

Most school launch are subpar, while fast food tastes delicious for them, a nudge to solve the problem is to create “healthy “delicious food in school to create a correlation in their mind, most people are terrible cooks, so kids “learn” to dislike normal foods

the threadworm

46w

Who are these people who can't afford to eat, but can afford nike trainers?

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Mou Roy

45w↑1

Very informative.

Susan B

46w↑3

Stuff should be proven to be safe in toto not just in isolation

Cassiopeia 360

45w↑1

My father in law is North America, he eats frozen and processed food everyday. He never cooks and he is very healthy. I just don’t understand how???!!

Oscar

45w↑8

Convenience is a killer.

K K

35w↑1

The problem is, if both parents need to work full time, who is going to cook for the children at home? They might start cooking themselves once they are 16 but by then the damage is done.

Andy Johnson

46w↑3

Is there an actual full version of this BBC episode?

jlindsa

46w↑5

The next story should focus on outlining how we got here. Isn't this all a fairly "new" industry? I believe a lot of cereals for example, really took off with the public post WW2.

Viral Norn

46w↑18

Processed foods that are created so some corporations can make billions is the worst use of science that we have.

Tasty Pymp

46w↑1

No. I'd argue bioweapons are much worse.

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Julia Naylor

46w↑6

I've found so many processed foods are full of sugar. If you're short of money buy Sainsbury's cheap white and wholemeal bread....no sugar in it, tastes like cheap bread from twenty years ago....45p. The dearer sliced breads are full of sugar. Nevermind the other stuff which is mostly crap, it's the sugar / dextrose / glucose in every other bit of savoury food, including cheese sauce, pesto, ketchup, bread, meat pies, hash browns and salad dressings, that's the worst culprit. 🤢

tarafall1

46w↑1

I noticed this today. That very cheap bread has a lot less rubbish in it than the more expensive bread.

Julia Naylor

46w↑3

@tarafall1 I've decided because I can cook from scratch, to make my own cheese sauce and salad dressings. I found every single one of these on the supermarket shelves had sugar in!!?? 😳

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Kia

46w↑2

I still add margarine while making a cake so I feel guilty every time I consume them even I don't add sugars coz flours alone are basically sugar 😂

Maria Mirabella

45w

How many weeks is it necessary to recover if we switched diet to a natural one?

D M

44w

4:25 I love the french accent of the doctor ❤

B N

46w

These are resilient survivors. My children would have all perished the very first day from severe nagging. 👍

Angela Senator Kennedy sergeant Smirnoff

40w

you can ask for help

Tory Berch

46w↑5

Years ago when I learned what "hydrogenation" did to your heart ❤️ I became a better label reader. Will be adding "emulsifier" to my list 👍👍

1890

46w↑5

It's not food or nourishment. It's entertainment..

I'll have a small processed snack once/month or so but no more than that - makes me feel ill if I eat anything more.

San Coca

45w↑1

Whole food plant based diet is the only way 🙏❤️

Franklin Guallpa

46w

The food industry is a place to have scientists come together to do tests on emulsifier's long-term impact on ultra-processed foods besides the twins LOL.

David Lawrence

46w↑5

I honestly can't remember the last time I had to eat ultra-processed food but then I am exceptionally wealthy and only consume the freshest meat, fruit and vegetables from my two farms.

JD Guitar

46w↑12

I feel for you man, I'm dirt poor and just ate half a box of Pop Tarts.

DDSizeBra

46w↑2

@JD Guitar 🤣🤣🤣

Tony Sherwood

46w

Anyone can garden a 3square metre plot and provide enough to feed a family!

L DR

46w

@Tony Sherwood how do you get access to land for this, rent it?

Tony Sherwood

46w

@L DR yes an allotment is four times the size! Tastes better! Room for chickens too!

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Mitch Li

46w↑4

what are some examples of the ultra-processed foods ? can we have the amy menu and her sister's menu cuz the changes in 2 weeks are surprising and concerning

LolloRosso

46w↑5

They are referring to foods with a lot of additives. As a general rule of thumb, the shorter the ingredient list, the better. Go with fresh produce or plain frozen fruits and vegetables for convenience.

Weird guy

46w

At this point every food has been processed, but they are referring at already made foods in packaging.
Rules if it comes from the earth or a animal your safe ( off course nothing is safe but is not ultra processed)

GeXExtremist

45w↑1

Pretty much everything is processed unless your buying pasture raised meat/eggs and organic whole plants, stuff like 90% dark chocolate is minimally processed but still very good for you, a frozen pizza would be ultra processed, full of crap and I wouldn’t even consider it real food

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Sruthi Christopher

46w↑2

Very informative

David Getling

46w↑3

I LMAO when I look at the prices of so many ready meals. I can cook far better at a much lower price. The same goes for baking cakes. So why don't people do themselves a massive favour and cook?

Liz Williams

46w

This also shows that you can turn your health around when following a whole-foods diet!

Hans Udo Wolfrahm

46w

Ultra processed food is different from hyper- super- or normal processed food, keep that in mind 😂

Glimmmerra

46w↑1

NOT true.

ADZ01982

28w

Our body can't really figure out what to do with processed food.. 40 years ain't along time for the human body to adapt

dombo813

46w↑1

Wow, 2 weeks, 2 subjects, not even single blind, with no controls on other activities, so scientific!

Ron Lentjes

40w↑2

AkkuBi 17_19

32w

Its terrible to know the effect of ultra processed food.. much worried about the health condition of our society.. how can we go ahead without consuming this kind of food

Nayem Islam

46w↑13

Great report. We need more awareness to save our future.

Richard

46w↑1

Our future 😆 have we even got one

Tasty Pymp

46w

'Save our future'

Ok extremist....

Cairn Nicolai

46w

Please also realise that ultra-processed foods is a very large category of foods. Therefore labelling all ultra-processed foods as bad can be dangerous for a sustainable food transition.

Edwin Tong

45w↑2

That's the unfortunate truth of this video, a majority of foods people consume every day is unhealthy for us.

TAO TOLOGY

43w

'it is a lot if things' doesn't mean 'so they are not all bad'

There are a whole lot of highly processed substances in things people consume everyday.

Emily N

33w

I feel so bad for the children, general people really don't know about diet

Leon Agnew

42w↑1

I know some people are very busy, but it only takes around 15 minutes to make a healthy stir fry or a vege omelette. I work night shift and still have time to eat well.

Jim_93

36w

Great information for thought!

Muhammed Binsiddeeque

34w

By seeing this the people are not to stop to eat ultra processed food because they want tasty foods instead of healthy foods .commonly the ultra processed foods are tasty 🙂

FugazStar

46w↑18

while at it, why not also fight back the "big-size-is-beautiful" movement. It teaches everyone, especially kids, that being obese is fine and should be normalized and accepted in society. And telling people against it, now it's labeled "fat-shaming". I know I'm going against the current here, but it needs to be said. Aesthetics aside, this movement just adds fuel to the fact that our youth already struggles with lots of mental issues including all the different types of eating disorders. It's depressing that at least here in the US the government is doing nothing to fight back, instead they love playing politics.

Ster

42w

No, because there's no evidence that making people more unhappy about their bodies achieves anything more than making them miserable. People don't want to be fat, but for most people, weight is determined by genetics more than anything

Laurel Andrea

29w

Any recommendations for someone who only has a mini fridge and a microwave? I tend to buy a lot of microwave meals (healthier ones) but I want to do better.

jake

46w↑1

I will never not be annoyed about the unscientific stigmatization of “processed foods”. It’s so tiring having to explain to people over and over again what the logical fallacy of “appealing to nature” means. I don’t care to do it here, but I needed to say that I’m exhausted.