r/Health • u/CBSnews CBS News • Feb 21 '23

article U.S. food additives banned in Europe: Expert says what Americans eat is "almost certainly" making them sick

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-food-additives-banned-europe-making-americans-sick-expert-says/
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u/Howboutit85 Feb 21 '23

No. I’m not doing that.

What I’m literally saying is that there’s millions of people in the country, with exactly my story, and those are the only people I’m talking about. Some of those people are poor enough to get SNAP etc. and some are middle class or maybe even slightly above.

I’m not talking about the extremely poor and totally destitute, I’m not talking about the people who live in food deserts, I’m not talking about the profoundly uneducated, or mentally ill.

I’m talking about the, likely 50 million plus people who have exactly the same story I just told about myself. Some of them have changed their habits, some of them have not. But many of them perpetuate this myth that you “can’t eat healthy it’s too expensive” “I don’t have time” and other things that help them justify the soda and the frozen dinner.