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    „Die Humanbiologie war nie darauf ausgelegt, mit hochverarbeiteten Lebensmitteln umzugehen“, warnt der ehemalige FDA-Chef David Kessler


    „Die Humanbiologie war nie darauf ausgelegt, mit hochverarbeiteten Lebensmitteln umzugehen“, warnt der ehemalige FDA-Chef David Kessler

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ultraprocessed-foods-rfk-jr-and-david-kessler-60-minutes-transcript/

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    1. atombara on

      Say more, try it in a way that makes sense.

      It’s not like I want to advocate for processed foods, though you would be surprised how not-shelf-stable most things are. But this:

      >David Kessler: Pick up any one of these products. You ever look at the– the ingredient label?

      >Bill Whitaker: A lot of ‚em are things I can’t even pronounce.

      >David Kessler: Right. Is that food? Corn syrup, corn solids, maltodextrin, dextrose, xylose, high-fructose corn syrup. And then these ingredients were subjected to industrial processing so that our system can’t handle it.

      this is facebook grandma logic.

    2. Skraelings on

      wasnt intended for my body to travel at 70mph either, yet in a car I do that every day.

    4. Romantic_Piscean on

      I mean, we could also break down corn, for example, into its various chemical components and make it sound frightening. The issue isn’t the stabilizing additives, it’s that we’ve trained our collective tastebuds and corporate food delivers for it.

      But when Democrats talked about limiting the size of sodas, these same chuckleheads melted down. Now if they want to make good foods affordable instead of cheap calories, wonderful. But this ain’t that.

    6. GrumpyOldDad65 on

      Yep. My body has been telling me that exact thing the past two weeks. Sucks. I love me some ultra processed food.

    7. PhotonArmy on

      Water toxemia is a real thing and a 35 year old mother died in 2023 simply by drinking too much water on vacation, causing her brain to swell.

      … but try living without it.

    9. zirky on

      we weren’t designed for extreme nacho flavor

      we had to evolve for extreme nacho flavor

    10. mok000 on

      Well, biology, or rather biochemistry, can handle ultra processed food, but you will become sick over time from the high levels glucose and fructose they contain.

    11. twitch_delta_blues on

      So we should improve school lunches? Make fresh food more available to poor people? Fill in food deserts?

    14. BronzeRider on

      Spoken like a guy who doesn’t even have a high school level understanding of evolutionary biology.

      “Never intended to handle”. That’s not even the right framing. Because clearly the human body CAN handle processed foods. It has been doing so for literal decades. And nothing in human evolution is “intended” for anything. It has functions, not intentions.

      Idk, I’m probably just being too pedantic, but shit like that annoys me. “The human body was never intended to handle processed foods”. That shit does mean anything. What’s the consequence? Is there malnutrition? Problems with development of…..idk teeth or the GI system?

    15. hamfisting_my_thing on

      I lament this fact, especially given how much I love Trolli sour gummi worms.

    18. dingusmingus2222 on

      But was it built to handle coke from a dirty toilet seat? Asking for a friend…

    19. SkinnedIt on

      Who cares, there’s money to be made and health care expenses to be paid!

    21. Bloaf on

      > biology was never intended to handle“ ultraprocessed foods

      of course not, that’s a teleological fallacy. Its the same reasoning anti-LGBTQ people use to argue that LGBTQ stuff is „unnatural“.

      Ultraprocessed foods **were intended** to handle our biology, that’s the problem.

    23. Brilliant_Voice1126 on

      Biology doesn’t have “intent”. While I admire Kessler’s intentions he’s not a scientist and never has been. This type of teleological thinking are why he has fallen into the trap of the naturalistic fallacy theoughout his career leading to the disastrous decision to help deregulation the supplements and vitamin trade spawning a million huxsters and an endless stream of health disinformation and antivax sentiments.

      He needs to come with data, not the naturalistic fallacy. Nature doesn’t intend things. We’re all just a series of happy accidents.

    24. givin_u_the_high_hat on

      It’s crazy. The Dems voiced this concern a long time ago. It was the GOP that said kids should be allowed to choose ultra processed lunches and giant sodas, and a president that chooses McDonald’s over any other type of meal. They even showed up on Fox drinking from their Big Gulps.

    25. Top_Pirate699 on

      We were never intended to deal with a billionaire pedophile class intent on climate destruction, I’m a little more afraid of that than oreos

    30. tardiscoder on

      What exactly is ultra processed and when is it „ultra processed“ verses cooking?

    31. OldGaffer66 on

      So why didn’t he do something about it when he WAS FDA head? Too little too late, my little man.

    32. deadbeatsummers on

      I encourage everyone to read about the history of corporate lobbying against FDA regulations

    34. Paper_Clip100 on

      But when Michelle Obama said we should limit ultra processed juices my cousins fucking FREAKED out in Facebook

    38. lizkbyer on

      And now I don’t believe a word that comes out of the departments mouth. That’s where we are. Congratulations.

    40. SaltyPinKY on

      What about the animals that we force on processed food?  I’m going to get hate for this…but I’ll trade a few years of longevity for everyone getting nutrition of some sort.   I have no problem with processed foods.   

    42. thatsbutters on

      There was never a plan intended… It’s been leroy jenkins from the start.

    43. Effervescentgravy on

      We have determined that human biology was never intended to ingest alcohol. So we are announcing a new policy called Prohibition.

    44. Difficult_Ladder369 on

      Like vegan food. It’s all processed. Chemicals and plants. If y’all only knew how many animals have to get killed for agricultural purposes

    48. Competitive_Log_8981 on

      Then why didn’t he do something about it when he was the head of the FDA?

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