Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Revealed He said Friday that a big factor in his decision to support President Donald Trump wasMake America Healthy Again“In a future Trump administration.”
“Don't you want healthy children?” Kennedy said. “Don't you want chemicals out of your food? Don't you want regulators free from corporate corruption? That's what President Trump has told me he wants.”
A few days later, Time magazine reported:What if ultra-processed foods aren't as bad as you think?” — A few months ago “Why ultra-processed foods are bad for you”
Kennedy had no intention of buying what Time magazine was selling,
Tweeted“Yeah, what if? What if ultra-processed foods are even worse than you think?”
Trump's new ally:
Dr. Casey MeansThe co-founder of food health monitoring company Levels slammed Time magazine for its Monday article, saying it was an attempt to salvage the public image of ultra-processed foods.
“Mainstream Media Playbook,” Means
Written About X. “Just when it seems like the culture is moving toward health, they rush to churn out BS articles (like this one that ran in Time magazine yesterday).”
- Seed confusion;
- Normalizing the problem with “meaningless anecdotes.”
- It deflects and silences debate by “focusing too heavily on social justice issues and food access issues rather than science.”
- “They point to, but are quick to discount, the countless studies showing that ultra-processed foods impair hormonal and metabolic health and lead to premature death.”
- Please avoid mentioning “funding sources or conflicts of interest of the NIH, USDA, FDA, academic institutions, or media outlets publishing the article.”
Kennedy
Added“And let's not even get into the conflict between NGOs like the NAACP and diabetes groups that are funded by processed food lobbyists.”
Fighting for the unhealthy obsession with race
A controversial article by Time magazine medical reporter Jamie Ducharme
Suggested He believed that debilitating side effects from vaccines were “normal” in 2021. Pro-obesity nutritionist Jessica Wilson I was upset by the success and conclusions of a recent book by an actual doctor about the effects of ultra-processed foods.
Ducharme writes:
Wilson, who specializes in working with clients from marginalized groups, was upset. He felt that Van Tulleken's experiment had been overly sensationalized, and that news reports were shaming those who regularly eat processed foods – in other words, the majority of Americans, especially the millions who suffer from food insecurity or limited access to fresh foods, who tend to be low-income and people of color. Wilson felt that the furor ignored this “food apartheid” and the vast diversity of foods that are considered ultra-processed.
Dr. Chris Van TullekenAn infectious disease specialist with a medical degree and a PhD in molecular virology from Oxford University, he recently said:Ultra-Processed Food Man: Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food”
Presumably as part of the book's marketing campaign, Tareken increased his intake of ultra-processed foods to 80% of his diet for a month, leaving him with only anecdotal evidence to back up what he had previously based his scientific evidence on.
Ultra-processed foods are
NOVA Food Classification System As:
Industrial formulations made entirely or largely from substances extracted from foods (oils, fats, sugars, starches, proteins), derived from food ingredients (hydrogenated fats, modified starches), or synthesized in a laboratory from food substrates or other organic sources (flavor enhancers, colorants, and some food additives to make the product very palatable). Production techniques include extrusion, molding, and pretreatment by frying. Beverages may be ultra-processed.
Examples of ultra-processed foods include store-bought biscuits, frozen desserts, chocolate, candy, soda and other carbonated drinks, prepackaged meats and vegetables, frozen pizza, fish sticks or chicken nuggets, prepackaged bread, instant noodles, chocolate milk, breakfast cereals, and sweetened juices.
Tareken
said According to the BBC, after a month of eating mostly ultra-processed foods, he “felt 10 years older.”
“Exposure to ultra-processed foods was consistently associated with 32 adverse health outcomes.”
Doctors noted that during the experiment, participants experienced hormonal and weight imbalances, changes to the brain, poor sleep quality, anxiety, heartburn, reduced libido and lethargy.
“If it can do that to my 42-year-old brain in four weeks, what does it do to our children's developing, fragile brains?” asked Taleken.
Deadly Foods
Earlier this year, The Blaze News reported that a large-scale peer-reviewed study published in the British Medical Association's prestigious journal, BMJ, found evidence showing “a direct association between increased exposure to ultra-processed foods and increased risk of all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease-related mortality, common mental health outcomes, overweight and obesity, and type 2 diabetes.”
An international team of researchers from institutions including the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Sydney School of Public Health found that exposure to ultra-processed foods was consistently associated with 32 adverse health outcomes, including all-cause mortality, cancer-related mortality, cardiovascular disease-related mortality, heart disease-related mortality, breast cancer, central nervous system tumors, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer, adverse sleep-related outcomes, anxiety, general mental disorders, depression, asthma, wheeze, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, obesity, hypertension and type 2 diabetes.
“Based on random-effects models, 32 (71%) individual pooled analyses showed a direct association between increased exposure to ultra-processed foods and increased risk of adverse health outcomes,” the study states. “Furthermore, of these pooled analyses, 11 (34%) showed continued statistical significance when more stringent thresholds were applied.”
Heart disease-related mortality, cardiovascular disease-related mortality, all-cause mortality, type 2 diabetes, wheezing, and depression were among the 11 adverse health outcomes that showed continued statistical significance despite the more stringent criteria.
Junk science
Wilson, an activist who was touched by both the discussion of Tareken's harmful health effects and by experiencing them first-hand,
Ran “A queer, six-week exploration of the joys and horrors of having a body.” Recruit She calls herself the “co-founder of the Amplify Melanated Voices challenge.” Apparently I believe The desire to be thin is racist — she reportedly asked herself: “Why is this whole category of food something that we should avoid?”
Wilson similarly adjusted his diet, with 80% of what he ate for a month now being highly processed foods, according to Time magazine.
After Wilson spent a month devouring soy chorizo, pre-cooked tamales from Trader Joe's, cashew milk yogurt with jam, tater tots, and other highly processed foods, Time magazine reported that “something strange happened.”
“Wilson noticed she had more energy and less anxiety, she didn't need as much coffee to get through the day, and she felt more motivated. She also felt better eating ultra-processed foods than before. She attributes this change to her being able to consume more calories through solid meals rather than a random assortment of whole food ingredients,” Ducharme writes.
A health reporter from Time magazine asked the question, “How can two people have such different experiences when eating the same types of foods? And is it true that not all ultra-processed foods deserve their bad press?”
Despite citing numerous legitimate studies showing that ultra-processed foods are actually harming and in some cases killing Americans, Ducharme writes:
Most health-conscious people have the same question about processed foods: Are they killing me? And for now, despite the increasing likelihood that processed foods will be included in dietary guidelines, no one really knows the answer. Causal studies of the health effects of processed foods are limited, and scientists and policymakers have yet to find a good way, as Hess puts it, to “meaningfully distinguish between nutritious and non-nutritious foods.”
The Time article ends with Wilson implying that if it meant going to bed feeling full, he would choose ultra-processed foods “every time.”
The article has been widely mocked online, with many critics pointing out that the timing of its publication was politically expedient.
Adam Johnston of Substack's Conquest Theory responded to the article. write“We can't tell the truth about highly processed foods because it would shame marginalized groups. So we have to continue to pretend our diet is healthy while obesity skyrockets and people die. You don't want to hurt the feelings of marginalized groups, right?”
BlazeMedia CEO Tyler Cardon
attention“If you need any more motivation to give up ultra-processed foods, this headline from the publication should help.”
“It's been less than a week since @RobertKennedJr once again raised public awareness about the dangers of ultra-processed foods.”
Written Isabel Brown, spokesperson for Turning Point USA.
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