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How did ultra-processed foods take over, and what are they doing to us?

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The Effects of Ultra Processed Food on Mental Health

The UPF diet is incredibly calorie dense and the very intensive physical processing means that it's soft. Most ultra processed food you can eat quicker than your hormone system that tells you to stop eating can catch up. Then we've got all the additives, some of which affect our mental health. The emulsifiers seem to really, really interrupt our microbiome, the bugs inside us that keep us healthy.

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