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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand the desire to avoid processed foods. Do you avoid medicine, too? What other scientific advances do you shun?[/quote]

Oh come on. You know darn well many 'food' items are not food at all and contribute significantly to disease which makes you need medicine.[/quote]

NP. I am also a bit confused by what people are hoping to achieve by avoiding processed foods. Processed foods span a huge range of food types. I completely understand ruling out fast food and Doritos, but the posts on this thread seem to be going in a more extreme direction. 
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People are talking about "ultra processed foods," which have generally been defined as foods with ingredients that would not be used in a home kitchen (such as foods loaded up with additives, preservatives, fake sweeteners, other chemical names rather than food descriptors). Typically if you can recognize the names of ingredients, the item is not considered UPF. That said, I think a more tenable goal is to reduce, rather than entirely eliminate, UPFs. [/quote]

I'm intrigued by this conversation because as a home cook who cooks 95% of what I eat with next to no takeaways and restaurant meals, and who proactively eats a healthy diet with plenty of greens and vegetables, it's the default for me to approach the meal planning without thinking about reaching for the box of frozen packaged food from the freezer or whatever (though I still have the occasional frozen pizza). But that does not translate into OMG must bake my own breads and crackers and eat lentil soups and steel cut oats or I'll never have healthy skin and will die prematurely of heart disease! I've had plenty of lentils and steel cut oats, they're typically quite dreary, but more to the point, no, you don't have to eat them to have a healthy diet either.

Ironically, some of the most unhealthy looking people I know are people who are obsessed with being vegan and cutting out any fats and processed foods in their diets. They look like waifs and drug addicts, certainly not people with healthy glowing skins![/quote]

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