Gotta get em young so they can later keep em dependant on the "health system".
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most baby food instore is either gerber or similar foods, or those fruit/veggie pouches, and baby junk food.
Oh man, my brain left out “foods” in the title. Read it as “4 out of 5 toddlers are ultra processed”. This thread turned out WAY different than I was expecting.
Again, I am glad I never procreated.
I'm glad I wasn't born in burgerland.
Same. In hindsight, my parents raising me on McDonald's was a terrible parenting choice.
Yes it was.
I'm sure they thought it wasn't a big deal because I've been athletic my whole life, but I had a serious weight problem as an adult and lost 150 pounds. Probably wouldn't have ended up that way if I didn't have a taste for fast food.
Stay strong, man.
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It's so hard to find foods that are convenient and not ultra processed. I don't mean you can't find them in the grocery store. They're there, but just the actual integration of prepping and cooking those foods day to day is problematic. We do our best though.
YSK: ultra-processed is not inherently bad. Bad food, though, is always bad.
In some ways it kinda is, though. The point of ultra-processing is either (a) to make the food easier to eat, which can be bad because the hard-to-digest parts like fiber are important for health too or (b) make it taste better, which can be bad because it encourages overeating.
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