Depression Linked to Ultra-Processed Foods, Artificial Sweeteners
Depression Linked to Ultra-Processed Foods, Artificial Sweeteners
Ultra-processed foods are energy-dense and ready-to-eat food items including things like processed breakfast meats, packaged snacks, and ice cream as well as artificially sweetened drinks.
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“What we found is that consuming high amounts of ultra-processed foods could increase your risk of developing depression by up to 50%,” said Raaj Mehta, MD, MPH, one of the study’s authors and a gastroenterologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Obligatory: Fuck Nestlé (P&G, Unilever, etc.)
those water thieves
You know nothing is stopping people from eating these foods in moderation. You don't have to go out and eat a family sized bag of chips by yourself in a single sitting.
Consuming large amounts of any food in a single sitting would be bad for you.
I had no idea. Thanks for the update.
You are welcome.
Eating disorders exist, company cantines exist, poverty exists. Not everyone has free choice in exactly how much processed stuff they eat.
Everyone has a say in what they eat.
A ten ounce bad of doritos at my local super market is $6
I can get a pound of chicken breast for $4 and a pound if fresh green beans for $2.50
I can buy a bunch of celery, baby carrots and a low calorie dip for the same price
A bag of Doritos is ready to eat. The chicken breast and green beans have to be prepared and there are many factors why that may not be feasible for someone.
Celery and a low calorie dip is not exactly a healthy balanced meal, sure it's low in calories but it's low in just about everything and not really much better than a bag of Doritos.
You can buy pre-made chicken for the price of a bag of doritos.
Stop making excuses for people that lack self control
Some people just don't.
People with ED might have to eat food that they know will cause problems in the long term because the short term consequences of the alternative are catastrophic.
A lot of companies do not offer fridges or even any place to store food, the worker has to eat what the company offers.
Poor people often do not have the time or energy to prepare their own food as they often have to work twice as hard if they ever want to rise above the poverty line. The time it takes to plan, store the ingredients (and some don't even have the material necessities needed to store food) and prepare those supposedly cheaper fresh ingredients comes at the cost of not being able to work for that time. So it is often cheaper for the poor person to buy the seemingly more expensive processed food.
Then that is on the person woth an earing disorder. Of we removed everything from this world that effected some in a negative way nothing would be left
Then that is on the person woth an earing disorder.
Sure, blame the sick for their illness.
Of we removed everything from this world that effected some in a negative way nothing would be left
what a thought-terminating sentence. We can't remove everything that affects people in a negative way so lets just stop talking about it. The worker who has to work in sickening conditions, the poor who can't freely choose if they want to live healthy, can't eradicate it so it's not worth thinking about. Anyway did you see that ludicrous display last night?
Why would I blame companies that have nothing to do with it?
Hate to break it to you but I was once poor too amd worked hard bringing home little money and I never resulted to a bag of chips.knstead of picking up real food to cook for similar prices.
Did you mean to post this reply to another comment?
Unprocessed food is far more expensive. Very few people don't have access either.
I'd you are getting fat at work, Jesus Christ, have a modicum of self restraint.
We are not talking about people getting fat because of the food their company provides thats such a deranged misreading of what we're talking about holy shit
company cantines exist
You are. It's right there.
Except we're not talking about getting fat you cretin. Guess which products use the "Artificial Sweeteners" mentioned in the very title of this post.
Lol👌 whatever you say 🤣
Family sized bags of chips are also a comfort food and very appealing when depressed.
They are cheap enough and filling enough and interesting enough that you can find yourself munching through them as you try and distract yourself from whatever.
It's quite easy to set up a vicious circle of depressed -> eat crap -> depression.
And it is very difficult to break out of itBut again that is not the companies fault that is making them. Tens if not hundreds of millions of people enjoy those foods responsibly every day.
It's the depressed person who has an issue and needs to seek mental health care
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Mental health care is extremely easy to access. Just call a doctor and go.
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Where is that ? I can see a shrink in a few days if I call out here in jersey. There are shrinks every where now
Have you tried not buying them?
Just because reddit banned fatpeoplehate, that doesn't mean you need to be self righteous here.
I never once said I hate fat people. What a story you've invented.
You certainly sound exactly like someone who hates fat people.
But whatever you say.
I know someone very dear to me who can get suicidal and the only way to break out is by eating extraordinarily unhealthy food. So not buying them is not an option. One of the triggers for such a suicidal episode by the way is her weight and the stigma that comes along with it. So no it is not option. Shut the fuck up.
and this is why the insistent blemishing of artificial sweeteners maddens me, it's nothing but a vehicle for feeling superior.
sugarfree soda is kinda amazing, can we maybe resist the urge to scream at new things and just appreciate that people can now drink things that make them happy without gaining a bunch of weight from it?