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[quote=Anonymous]OP is perhaps being somewhat intentionally obtuse BUT I think her questions and arguments are useful because the whole highly-processed issue is yet another thing that people obsess over instead of just taking a couple useful rules of thumb and moving on.

I think we all know that ideally we should eat more foods in the form in which they were grown, right? Eat more vegetables and fruit, more while grains, and some lean meat. Shop from the perimeter of the store mostly. Try not to add too much sugar, salt, and oil to your food but some to make it taste better is fine. Shelf stable foods are convenient and okay in smaller amounts, but try to eat fresh foods that don't have preservatives when you can.

What we teach our kids is that it's okay to eat thing just because they are tasty or convenient sometimes, but we should try every day to get the highly nutritious foods into our diet. So I'll stick some chips or pretzels in their lunches by I will talk about why it's important to eat their yogurt and carrots and granola first, and they mostly do, rendering the chips an okay indulgence. But if all they are were chips and pretzels and crackers, that wouldn't be a healthy diet.

So just being aware which foods are heavily processed and thus lacking in nutrients (and/or high in additives) can just help make good food choices more often than not.

When people get obsessive about any of this or judge others for what they eat, it gets tedious and annoying.[/quote]

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