Processed Food Documentary

[MintTeaMascara]

youtu.be/guxledYcXcE(Not working as expected?)

[AnnieW55]

Thanks. Will look shortly. But have to say looking at the the left hand side picture brings me out in hives! Apart from the ?coffee. I just “get” the right hand side, thankfully.

[MintTeaMascara in reply to AnnieW55]

You're welcome.

I think it's a fizzy drink! It does almost look like it's steaming.

Nice - It is a good watch, there's lots of good hints, tips and useful information but if you're already informed and eating healthy, it might be a waste of your time.

[AnnieW55 in reply to MintTeaMascara]

You’re right 😊. I don’t do fizzy drinks, apart from tonic in my gin, so didn’t recognise “the real thing” 😂 The advertising obviously still works as I remembered that strap line from way back (even if I didn’t realise what it was!) The straw should have given it away.

[MintTeaMascara in reply to AnnieW55]

Haha

[thara9643]

This is interesting. Thanks for the educational video. Due to endo I try to stick to a healthy diet.

[MintTeaMascara in reply to thara9643]

😊 You're welcome. I'm not familiar with endo. It'd be good to learn about it some time. Hope you're okay.

[andyswarbs]

Very good information thx

[MintTeaMascara in reply to andyswarbs]

You're welcome 😊

[Rezzy3]

Great watch. Just eating better foods and the right foods has got my autoimmune disease going in reverse. And now my kids are also catching on to the healthy eating. Hopefully it will carryover to their children.

Thanks for the video find!

[MintTeaMascara in reply to Rezzy3]

😊 That's really good news!

You're welcome

[TheAwfulToad]

Good post. What's missing from the conversation, I think, is the extent to which dieticians, weight loss clubs, and the NHS tacitly (or overtly) encourage people to consume highly-processed foods (ie., those which could not have existed in the pre-industrial age). It's no wonder people don't know what's real food and what isn't. Here's a brief list of "approved" non-foods:

- Weetabix and similar

- tinned baked beans

- 'wholemeal' bread (which, if you buy it in supermarket, just isn't wholemeal bread)

- synthetic butter substitutes (AKA 'low fat spreads' - which isn't even technically accurate)

- chemically-extracted seed oils

- "scones, buns, muffins, crumpets or cereal bars" (BDA advice for kids)

- anything low-fat (which usually have the missing fat replaced with chemicals and/or sugar)

- cakes and snacks which are "calorie counted" (WeightWatchers are the worst offenders here)

The general thrust of "healthy eating" advice ("if it's low in fat and high in carbs it's good for you") means that people can eat all kinds of appalling rubbish and still be technically eating "healthy food".

[MintTeaMascara in reply to TheAwfulToad]

I understand your frustrations.

In defence of the documentary, some of those things are mentioned and it's important to consider that it's filmed in the US. So although similar to the UK, everything is not exactly the same.

I think the intention of your message is to highlight further issues that other users here might not know. So thank you for that.

I think the general take away message from the documentary is - after the information shared, consider what products we want to buy and consider really limiting consuming potentially unhealthy food.

[TheAwfulToad in reply to MintTeaMascara]

Oh, for sure. My comment wasn't really related to the documentary as such - it was just an observation on the mixed messages that we get regarding junk food.