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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who has time for all of this? When I saw the study, I thought through our family eating habits and I just don't even know where to start - my kids eat cereal or oatmeal or toast (store bought bread) for breakfast. Then for lunch, they take a sandwich - usually with storebought bread and either storebought jam or peanut butter or cheese. They also may take store bought popcorn, or a fruit roll up or a store bought cookie. Maybe store bought hummus and crackers for dipping. For dinner, we have store bought pasta sometimes - I will make my own sauce but I don't have time to do that all the time (and don't suggest making a huge batch - I have 4 kids to feed, I'd have to have an entire freezer to keep it in!)

And then they have ice cream or maybe make a store bought cake on the weekends and eat that for dessert. On the weekends, they eat fast food. And don't even get me started on snacks.

Literally every meal has some element of super processed foods in it. My kids seem healthy enough, play sports, get good grades. Can someone post their no-super processed foods meal plan? [/quote]

This is the problem. You know we spend a lot of time mocking women in the 50s/60s for how everything they did was cooking and recipes but what this does not adequately capture is that prior to the invention of both the refrigerator and modern food processing/preservatives the reason many women stayed home was not JUST lack of opportunity in the professional world. It is because the job of getting meals on the table was a FULL TIME JOB. Getting food, storing food, preparing food, etc etc etc most of human history has revolved around the acquisition of and safe preparation of food. We really cannot even fathom what the daily food requirements of a housewife living in 1948 were. It is a world as different to us as a world without internet is to kids born today.

I see entirely that our overreliances on chemicals in food could be causing some unintended side effects. But reverting to a non processed food world will take creativity because our society will not (and honestly IMO SHOULD NOT) revert to a pre 1970s lifestyle where women HAVE to stay home in part to feed their family. The processed food revolution has perhaps made us sick and fat, its also given us freedom and dramatically reduced starvation. Pros and cons for every new frontier. [/quote]

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