For example, we KNOW that social factors like poverty and other forms of disadvantage impact who gets heart disease and who dies in our society These studies might have controlled for that enough to infer causality. They also might not 18/pic.twitter.com/oNwFgZvKs8
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This thread got a bit long, so to sum up: - processed foods may be bad for health - we aren't sure if it's the food or society - the impacts are important to governments, not as much for individuals 29/
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P.S. I forgot to mention, I did write about another almost identical study last year (using the same cohort of people as the French one) here https://medium.com/@gidmk/processed-food-isnt-killing-you-43556b943bd6 … 30/
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In this piece, I go through the same issues, but my conclusion is a bit different As any scientist will tell you, evidence moves on! 31/
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I'm still not entirely convinced that ultra-processed foods are independently bad - or indeed that this is always a useful category at all - but these studies and
@KevinH_PhD's recent work has changed my mind a bit 32/Show this thread -
I would still argue that societal changes are almost certainly the bigger issue here, but I suspect that reducing our consumption of ultra-processed foods would be a good first step 33/
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P.P.S. I think this point from
@Botanygeek is also very important - "processed" and "unprocessed" are heavily culturally influenced, which is one of the biggest issues with talking about the results of these studieshttps://twitter.com/Botanygeek/status/1133997826399186944 …Show this thread -
Pocast is now out on the studies in this thread - have a listen!https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1134628919938822145 …
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