It is difficult to imagine a person who exercises regularly, consumes fast food in moderation, and still suffers from obesity for reasons other than bad genetics.
Rather than avoiding X, we should look for practical ways to reduce health risks.
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Exercise stops you gaining weight, but it also makes you hungry and actually takes a lot to burn a significant amount of calories so it isn’t usually effective for weight loss.
UPF’s are addictive in the same way drugs are so moderation is not that simple.
@Curtains-Joe
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/does-exercise-cause-weight-loss#exercise-and-hunger
Myth. I eat what I want and I am not fat.
That article isn’t available in Europe.
Not being fat doesn’t mean your health is unaffected, also bear in mind you probably eat less UPF than the average Briton or American and what you do eat is made differently.
fish n chips n a wee bag of crisps once a blue moon never hurt anyone innit Curtains?
The price of Fish and chips these days could hurt anyone
except for the fishies. Thanks to the new halal fishing regulations, the fishes you eat no longer suffer.
@ChiralAnomaly @Curtains-Joe I believe using exercise and eating a balanced diet with intuitive and mindful eating has diminishing returns. It works at the beginning, but at some point, it becomes harder to lose weight with only exercise and sleep. This is not to say that you should skip exercise, but that you mustn't see a bad diet as something to outrun.
To beat an addiction, it's a great idea to replace the addiction with a healthy, rewarding one. Perhaps start with swapping a frozen meal with a fresh meal 2 days at a time. Then increase it per week.
GrapheneKid
The problem is that UPFs are a perfect intersection of addictive taste, low price and sheer convenience. Most people, myself including, have observed this and willingly or regrettably traded health and wellbeing in for this. Real wholesome food is often more expensive, not as addictive to the tastebuds, or inconvenient to prepare into a meal.
UPFs have also clogged the major distribution networks. A grocer or other store may not even consider stocking healthy choices because that's money, labor and shelf space spent on a perishable and less desired food when they could make more money if given to ordering a larger inventory of UPFs.
Not to say something like "capitalism is bad" but relaxed market conditions have allowed real food to be replaced over time with fake food, and the only way to get access to real food again is to demand it (forcefully, if necessary) from grocers and distributors.
Curtains-Joe
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