#Processed foods

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"100-200 years ago, people ate organic unprocessed food and didn't have vaccines... ... and lived to the ripe old age of 'died in childbirth.'"

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"Nature wants 5 of your 7 children dead. It wants you dead by 50. Everything better than that is brought to you by science & technology." -- David Frum

#science #human progress #wellbeing #life expectancy #organic food #unprocessed #processed foods #vaccines #vaccine #religion is a mental illness

[reality-detective]

How imitation crab is made. It's the hotdog of the sea world. 🤔

#pay attention #educate yourselves #educate yourself #knowledge is power #reeducate yourself #reeducate yourselves #think about it #think for yourselves #think for yourself #do your homework #do some research #do your own research #ask yourself questions #question everything #meat #processed foods #imitation crab #understand

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

#us politics #covid vaccine #coronavirus vaccine #coronavirus #coronavirus pandemic #covid pandemic #covidー19 #tweet #twitter #@snottyantelope #anti vaxxers #drugs #vaping #ecigarette #cocaine #monster energy #processed foods

[cerealkiller740]

1958 Kraft Snack Cheeses

#1958 #Kraft #snack #cheese #cheeses #spreads #processed foods #cerealkiller #vintage food #food #vintage advertising #vintage magazine #kitchen #magazine #1950s #50s #50s ads

[hopeful-engineer]

People will talk about 'diet culture', 'diet industry' and how we need to 'stop giving food a moral value' and 'stop demonizing food', and while it's true, that food has no 'moral value', it's also true, that some kinds of food are bad for your health in long term. Eating a burger or pizza doesn't make you a bad person (honestly, idk why someone would even think it does?), but if you eat it too often, it will make your body feel worse. And don't forget, that 'processed food industry' also exists, and doesn't care about your health and wellbeing. It's goal is (obviously) to sell you as many of it's products as possible, so this 'eat whatever you want, whenever you want' narrative actually works to it's advantage. Food doesn't have a moral value, but it has a nutritional value and consuming huge amounts of sugar, carbohydrates and artificial flavors can make you feel better emotionally for a moment, but definetely won't make you feel better, both physically and emotionally, in the future.

#positive vibes #positivity #positive #mental health #mental wellbeing #mental wellness #positive mental attitude #food #reminder #health #diet #self compassion #self worth #self care #self love #food industry #healthy eating #nutrition #positive thoughts #positive thinking #healthy lifestyle #healthy living #processed foods #wellness #mental energy #mental strength #growth mindset #self improvement #self healing #fast food

[hasufin]

Scale of the problem

I'm currently reading this book, Combat-Ready Kitchen. See, food preservation is one of my little fascinations - I love making food in general, and preserving it is a fun thing besides. One of my most popular posts was about hardtack; I do pressure canning on the regular; and I make my own turkey jerky - just to mention a few things.

So, obviously this is a topic of interest for me. Now, I have some issues with the book - basically I mildly-to-strongly disagree with most of the characterization of history prior to 1900, which does make me a little wary: if you're pushing a poorly-supported theory on sedentism, can I really trust you about K-rations?

That said, the book brings up an important, and horrifying point. See, the gist of the book is that the US military has played an enormous role in food science of the 20th and 21st centuries. Many processed food we eat today use techniques which were developed to create fieldable rations for soldiers.

And this leakage of military technology into the civilian sphere is very, very intentional. See, the idea is that if the USA were to, oh, decide to field an army of 20 million people, they would need only call up Frito-Lay, ConAgra, &c, and say "You need to start making food for the military now, the bill will pass Congress within the week" and that's a thing which can happen. Because the process which is used to make Cheetos is also the process to make "Corn-based snack food, cheese-flavored". The granola bars you take with you on road trips are the granola bars they put in MREs. It's the same technology, just with advertising.

And I'm realizing, from my time working for the US government - it's that way all around. You assume the emphasis on COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) products is meant to save money - and it is - but it's also meant to assure that at any given time the USA has a manufacturing capacity which can be almost instantly be turned into cranking out America's biggest export: war.

USA policy, from the end of WWII until the 80s, was focused on assuring that America had the industrial capacity to manufacture the largest war machine in history. Since the 80s that has been vastly reduced - apparently the plutocrats felt that breaking unions was more important than killing people - but the technology transfer and supply chains still exist.

All it would take is an act of Congress to turn the entire USA into a military.

#food #military #processed foods #food preservation

[vegandude72]

#processed foods #veganism

[hezigler]

The Lie That Made Food Conglomerates Rich (often the same conglomerates that own tobaco companies) ...And Is Slowly Poisoning Us

We live in an age of unmitigated greed.

#youtube #processed foods #processed foods industry #big tobacco #health #health guidance #health guidelines

[intelligentchristianlady]

PSA.

"...there was something other than salt, sugar, and fat content that was causing people to eat excess calories and gain weight."

Long read. Worth it.

#food #diet #obesity #nutrition #processed foods #ultra-processed foods #cost of food #fat sugar salt in our diet #a new approach to obesity

[spacevixenmusic]

Source: Arjuna [2001]

#arjuna #earth maiden arjuna #hamburger #disgust #processed foods #unhealthy #detached and subdivided in the mass production zone

[what-marsha-eats]

#sugar content #high carb food #processed foods

[maryannauger]

Sometimes you want pancakes but you don't have enough time, energy or the resources (eggs, flour, milk) to make them. Isn't it amazing that we can buy a bag of powder, mix it with water and then bam… pancakes! #science

Is making them from scratch better for you? It depends on the context. Is it going to stress you out to take 30 minutes to make pancakes from scratch vs 15 minutes with the pancake mix?

Is that the difference between eating and not eating? Because if so, eating the pancakes is definitely better!

Processed foods have their place in our diet (what we eat). And vilifying them comes from a place of privilege.

Especially if you vilify processed foods but then encourage people to drink protein shakes and eat protein bars and other supplements.

I'm grateful that we live in a day in age where we have access to foods that make our lives easier when we have a very busy schedule or don't have the energy to cook for a number of reasons.

Because ultimately, making sure you eat, is the most important!

#anti diet #anti diet culture #non diet #non diet approach #haes #health at every size #intuitive eating #diet culture #processed foods

[wolfspaw]

Fake food, food poison, genocide food coming soon. Control the food you control the people. Food should be your health and your medicine. What will you do when our only choice is poison? You have to eat.

#Calley Means #fake food #poison food #processed foods #Bill Gates and China buying up American farmland

[jbfly46]

#health #food #processed foods

[rating-ramen]

First blog post!

Hello and welcome to my blog! Here, I eat and rate packaged instant noodles to try and find the best of the best. There is no schedule, so be prepared to log into Tumblr and be surprised by a new ramen rating on any day of the week!

I look for specific things in my noodles, so scores will be mainly based on...

-Flavor (duh)

-Price

-Nutritional Value

-Texture

Scores may also be influenced by other things, of course. I don't add anything to my bowls except what the package tells me to add.

Thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoy my future posts!

#ramen #ramen noodles #noodles #packaged foods #cheap foods #food #maruchan #top ramen #processed foods #new to tumblr #new to the community

[teachanarchy]

Confused About What’s Healthy? Blame Big Food

#food #food industry #processed foods #addiction #health #disease #corporations #conglomerates #capitalism #economics #government #lobbying #disinformation #science #biology #Youtube