The “Healthy” Foods Quietly Making You Sick | Michael Pollan

I think nutrition and this idea of wanting to extend our life, our lifespan, living a healthier life, living longer is something that people are taking note of, specifically in recent times, after just all the different physical ailments, stresses, diseases that people are accumulating in life. And I want to start with a a question that I think anyone could resonate with, which is the worst foods that you think so many people are consuming that they think are healthy, which are actually really, really unhealthy for us physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. If you had a list of three to five foods that you think people think are healthy, But actually the research, the studies are showing it's actually hurting you. Well yeah, I mean I think the the the least healthy category of foods are what are called ultra-processed foods, uh sometimes UPFs.

Um these are foods that are heavily processed. Um the reason they use the word ultra is because lots of healthy foods are processed. Cheese is processed, yogurt is processed, uh white flour has been processed. So there's a degree of processing that's just kind of fine.

But when you get into ultra-processed foods, uh, whether they which often carry health claims. I mean I'll give you an example, the the impossible burger or the beyond burger, right? The super processed though, right? Yeah, like 21 ingredients, uh, some of them never before in the human diet. Really?

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