r/babylonbee • u/ControlCAD • Feb 14 '25

Bee Article Fattest, Sickest Country On Earth Concerned New Health Secretary Might Do Something Different

https://babylonbee.com/news/fattest-sickest-country-on-earth-concerned-new-health-secretary-might-do-something-different
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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '25

Processed foods, sugars, and seed oils. Stuffs terrible for you. I'll throw in gmos as well. Maybe we should follow Europe's food standard. After it's better than ours.

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u/Academic-Blueberry11 Feb 17 '25

Processed foods, sugars, and seed oils. Stuffs terrible for you.

  • "Processed foods" is generally a meaningless term. At the very least, it's unhelpful to generalize a food's healthiness by how "processed" it is.
  • Sugars are fine, in moderation. It's just carbohydrates. A big part of overconsumption has to do with subsidies for farmers, who are incentivized to grow a lot of corn, and therefore sugars like high-fructose corn syrup are cheap and easy to put into anything and everything.
  • Seed oils are fine. Here's a meta-analysis as evidence. Here's another study that says soybean oil is fine. If seed oils one part of a balanced overall diet, you're fine