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Want a simple nutrition tip? Just eat the food that you can recognise at simple sight, the ingredients it's made from. And lower meat consumption to 30% of your diet. Avoid ultraprocessed food and eat what you'll burn.



Why would eating processed food be bad? What does it matter if the ingredients are recognizable.


I said ultraprocessed, not processed. It's not the same a can of chickpeas than a 'chocolate' bar.

What I said about the ingredients It's just an easy tip to differentiate ultraprocessed foods from just processed or healthy ones. Another 'rule' could be avoiding food with more than 4-5 ingredients.


It seems to increase the risk of cancer by 10%, even if the exact mechanism or cause, is still unknown.

http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k322


Everything causes cancer. The reason is that the vast majority of cancer risk studies are done with insufficient control methodologies, have weak effect magnitudes, but are affected by positive finding publication bias and are published anyway.

And then they get cherry picked by diet fad promoters to support their crackpot theories and sell books.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/everything-we-eat-causes-ca...




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