UPFs.. hard to avoid but important if we want to be kind to our bodies, health and weight.

Factory food adds a cocktail of emulsifiers, gums, artificial sweeteners, thickeners, artificial preservatives. Often heavily branded, marketed, packaged food that are hyper palatable and typically have a long shelf life. They generally have lower nutritional value. Fast food is at the apex of UPFs

Guar gum, lecithin, carboxy methyl cellulose, xanthan gum, aspartame, tryglisride esters. These are not store cupboard ingredients!

They harm our gut micro biome and cause inflammation. Worsening weight gain and retention. Yet low fat and lower sugar food and drink products are generally ultra processed to substitute the removed ingredients. Look at weight loss branded products and they are Frankenstein foods.

Why do we tolerate being exploited to get overweight by corporates then get exploited again by corporates offering to eliminate the obesity that similar upf products caused?

Calories, fat and sugar may not be the main culprits. Are UPFs to blame for the obesity epidemic? We are starved of micro nutrients from natural foods and our gut biome can't regulate our appetite, blood sugar or inflammatory processes anymore. This is like tobacco, the corporates are lying to us about the harm their products do.

Weight loss companies are part of problem not the solution if they peddle their UPF products. It's not real food, it's a food like substance. We have to regulate this abuse of our health.