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Is it? There's primitive cultures that eat every kind of weird diet you can imagine, and they're all thin and fit. It's still kind of a mystery why exactly we can't handle eating even a fraction like the historical Inuit, and just the processing itself shouldn't change much.
One of us is confused.
I'm saying that ultra processed foods - food that have had their nutrients stripped and replaced with sugars and fats and chemicals - are more readily available. We have an ancient instinct to store fats and sugars due to food shortages. Ultra processed foods are pleasurable to eat and our biology specifically deals with them by storing them as fat.
I have never heard anyone say it's a mystery that we can't eat like our ancestors. On the contrary, there are a hundred fad diets specifically designed to do just this. If you look into "blue zones", you'll find people living long healthy lifestyles free of ultra processed foods and eating and exercising more similarly to our ancient ancestors.
The traditional Inuit diet is pretty much pure whale blubber. A bit of fish and marine mammal meat on the side. Essentially no plants, because they just don't grow well on permafrost.
There's another tribe I can't remember the name of that mostly just eats a certain high-calorie nut. By "can't handle", I meant without getting really fat eating that way. (The blue zones themselves are all over the place)
Because ultra processed foods don't fill us up but taste incredibly good. Technically the problem is overeating, but it's a lot easier to overeat ultra processed foods.
I mean, which foods even count as ultraprocessed isn't well defined. It's not an ingredient, it's not a technique. OP was trying to find a problem for their solution, you're right, but lack of exercise is just as big of a suspect if not bigger.
They're engineered to be very appealing for sure, but do you have a link for the not filling us up bit? That one's new to me.
https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/ultra-processed-food-and-obesity-how-can-we-eat-more-healthy/168204/
https://library.fabresearch.org/viewItem.php?id=12667
Thanks. Interesting that it's the texture that's suspect here - it's thought our jaws are too small to fit wisdom teeth for the exact same soft-food reason.
As far as I know there isn't good science yet or strict definition, so nothing really to source except personal experience