Not the same a US Francfurter and one from the EU, which has a strict regulations regarding preparation and content. US food in general is one of the most unhealthy of the first world, due to additives banned in the rest of the world, to disguise bad and cheap quality.
I once read an article about a football club who wanted to make pasta in their colours as merchandise. They weren’t allowed to, because one of the colours were blue and through some regulations, blue is not a “natural” colour that can be achieved with beets for red or spinach for green for example. I thought: oh interesting. And just a bit later i saw that cursed sonic curry that they sell in the us.
There are also natural blue colors, but the problem isn’t the color, the problem is that in US food the color is artificial, because it’s cheaper than natural colors. If it is unhealthy, the industry give a fuck, important to gain more money. Collateral damages are nice for the friends from the pharma industry.
Life expectancy in the US is more than 7 years lower than that of other first world countries. Too much stress, anxiety, crappy food with to much shugar and additives, inexistent healthcare. Capitalism kills
people who ate as little as one hot dog a day
Who TF is eating a hot dog every day? That’s their idea of a minimum amount of a particular food?
I know, right? One hot dog a day sounds like excess junk food consumption to me, not minimal consumption. These people clearly already do not have a decent diet and probably have other poor lifestyle choices. So it seems disingenuous to say that there is no safe minimum level of processed food consumption when their “minimum” is already excessive.
I get that this stuff increases cancer risk, but so does everything. Enjoying life without being too excessive with anything is what we should all shoot for. Life is a balance.
I know people who eat at McDonald’s like 5 or more times a week.
They should have used MacDonalds. That, I could believe.
Health effects associated with consumption of processed meat, sugar-sweetened beverages and trans fatty acids: a Burden of Proof study
Study title… CNN title is only about meat.
A meta-analysis of observational epidemiology
All of the issues with epidemiology apply
- association is not causation
- hypothesis generating only
- healthy user confounders
- people eating meat are often eating high carbohydrate diets
- metabolic context of the participants
- food frequency questionnaires filled out yearly or every 4 years.
I don’t have access to the paper, it hasn’t made it to the Free Academic circles yet, so I haven’t been able to read it.
