{"id":2464,"date":"2023-02-28T14:52:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T14:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/?p=2464"},"modified":"2023-02-28T14:52:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T14:52:16","slug":"ultra-processed-foods-the-ultimate-in-bad-eating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/2023\/02\/28\/ultra-processed-foods-the-ultimate-in-bad-eating\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultra-processed foods: The ultimate in bad eating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The Washington Post<\/em> published an interesting article recently about ultra-processed foods: \u201cWhat are ultra-processed foods? What should I eat instead?&#8221; by Anahad O\u2019Connor September 27, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to O\u2019Connor, \u201cUltra-processed foods are extra tasty concoctions that we eat every day. They are also linked with chronic diseases and a higher risk of early death.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What O\u2019Connor doesn&#8217;t seem to know however, is that ultra-processed foods also contribute to the obesity crisis that followed the 1957 introduction of the mass-produced excitotoxic \u2013 brain damaging \u2013 free glutamate component of MSG developed specifically for use in food, see:  <a href=\"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/2023\/02\/14\/a-short-explanation-of-the-obesity-epidemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/2023\/02\/14\/a-short-explanation-of-the-obesity-epidemic\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post published an interesting article recently about ultra-processed foods: \u201cWhat are ultra-processed foods? What should I eat instead?&#8221; by Anahad O\u2019Connor September 27, 2022. According to O\u2019Connor, \u201cUltra-processed foods are extra tasty concoctions that we eat every day. They are also linked with chronic diseases and a higher risk of early death.\u201d What &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/2023\/02\/28\/ultra-processed-foods-the-ultimate-in-bad-eating\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ultra-processed foods: The ultimate in bad eating&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[333,555,554],"class_list":["post-2464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-free-glutamate","tag-the-washington-post","tag-ultra-processed-foods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2465,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions\/2465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}