Is The Obesity/diabetes Problem More About The Way Food Is Processed?
Posted on | 十二月 7, 2009 | 7 Comments
With ready made sauces, prepacked meals, and processed cheese being full of salt and food additives, I maintain that rather than focusing on the calorie content we should focus on the processing of foods. These super-processing techniques must affect the way food is metabolised. If you made chips from fresh potatoes, I these would be healthier than frozen precut ones or smiley faces made from transformed potatoes, starch and fat. Similarly, a homebaked cake using fresh ingredients would be less harmful than pre-packed ones. We should be able to eat foods with a high fat content without it being a big deal. Previous generations ate lard on bread for goodness sake! Unprocessed lard, pure fat, but untreated. People don’t know how to cook anymore. I searched this site previous questions for a curry recipe and mostly found recipes involving adding a jar of sauce! There seems to be a lack of use of fresh ingredients. Could this be the main reason for the obesity epidemic?
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7 Responses to “Is The Obesity/diabetes Problem More About The Way Food Is Processed?”
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十二月 7th, 2009 @ 2:01 下午
Absolutely. There are hundreds of studies looking into various aspects of this. Like trans fats. Industry discovered that adding extra hydrogen atoms (partially hydrogenated ____ oil) to fats raises the melting point, increases shelf-life, ‘improves’ texture, etc.
It’s taken nearly a hundred years for us to finally start to accept that what’s good for industry isn’t necessarily good for our bodies. We’ve had the research tying trans fats to over 30,000 deaths per year in the U.S. for more than 15 years.
That’s just one of the thousands of processes and chemicals we fill ourselves with every day. And what does the body due with synthetic chemicals when it can’t break them down? It creates body fat to store them in.
十二月 7th, 2009 @ 7:48 下午
Hmmm..I think people need to move about more, and by eating full fat and sugar everything with lots of calories, and this will give them loads of energy which we need to function properly.
Yes I do believe the preservatives are the nasty ones.
However I also think dried vegetables have a bad press, we made our own for camping once and they were tastier than ever.
十二月 7th, 2009 @ 8:07 下午
Being sedentary is the most important factor. I’m sure that in Auschwitz nobody could get fat or diabetic eating ready food. Food ready to eat is more rich in fats and low quality ingredients to be cheaper but tasty and I agree that cooking culture should not be lost and totally given to factories.
十二月 7th, 2009 @ 11:23 下午
Only if you eat it Mum.
Making fresh sauce is fun, if you have the money to do so.
十二月 8th, 2009 @ 5:13 上午
Nope it is much more about eating too much and exercising too little!
十二月 8th, 2009 @ 12:06 下午
No it’s about the amount one EATS
十二月 8th, 2009 @ 4:43 下午
I’m with you, Lady Felicity. Of course, the first two rather glib answers, probably from people who have never put on any weight and who are convinced they never will, are also correct. But easy come, easy go down. If you know you have actually got to make the food you eat, you are going to make it last a bit longer and be pretty fed up if the family scoffs the things that can last over days, like cake, too quickly. Making it all from scratch, or nearly scratch (let’s have tinned tomatoes with no added salt), requires forward planning (good for mood, feeling you are in control) and the taking of exercise in gardening, shopping and cooking.
We used to get a lot more exercise in ordinary daily life. Jobs seem to have expanded to fit time available, and ready-prepared food makes time available. Since getting high blood pressure, I’ve found it difficult to get my job done and find the time and energy to do the amount of exercise I should even though I am motivated. And just in case anyone was wondering, I don’t spend THAT long on Y/A! and am overweight but not obese.