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How Ultra-Processed Food Came to Dominate Our Diets

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The Importance of Moderation

If someone listening recognizes that they have an addicted relationship with these products, whether it's their bread or their spreads or their chips or the frozen pizza, they may find abstinence the best policy. The book is written like the quick smoking book that was a huge bestseller and it's very well evidenced to work where you keep smoking while you read. So then what do you give your kids when they're going to the park? I will buy them a pack of just plain salted potato crisps that actually isn't ultra processed. It's when they add the flavorings and all the maltodextrin and the weird stuff they become. And if you sit down with those crisps with the

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