How Ultra-Processed Food Came to Dominate Our Diets
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How to Quit Fast Food and Junk Food
The evidence that this food is as addictive as chemicals like opioids or tobacco or alcohol for the people who are addictive is very, very, very robust. We can scan people's brains and show that they become addicted. And we know that because so, so few people manage to lose weight in the modern U.S. or the UK without, frankly, without surgery or drugs. So these, these proposals of eating,. you know, simple, cheap, easy food, anyone can buy a bowl of bag of porridge, that's true, but you have to factor in a lot of other costs. In the UK, there are a million households without a cooker or a freezer. The time
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