The other issue in all of this is that we know that people are terrible at self-reporting what food they eat Both studies controlled for this as well, but it's hard to know if that was entirely effective 21/pic.twitter.com/hFxnTFVsF5
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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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