How to Eat 'Healthy' in a World Full of Processed Food
Our world is full of processed food, for better or worse. It would be easy for me to sit at my keyboard and tell you to avoid it and eat foods in forms closest to how they are in nature: apples, not apple pie. But just because something is “processed” (whatever that means) doesn’t automatically make it bad for you.
- ▪Our world is full of processed food, for better or worse.
- ▪It would be easy for me to sit at my keyboard and tell you to avoid it and eat foods in forms closest to how they are in nature: apples, not apple pie.
- ▪But just because something is “processed” (whatever that means) doesn’t automatically make it bad for you.
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| Publication time | Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:00:00 +0000 |
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Our world is full of processed food, for better or worse. It would be easy for me to sit at my keyboard and tell you to avoid it and eat foods in forms closest to how they are in nature: apples, not apple pie. But just because something is “processed” (whatever that means) doesn’t automatically make it bad for you. It’s time to lose the guilt and own up to eating processed food sometimes—and maybe we’ll see it’s not that bad.Don’t obsess over how processed each food isHere’s the hard part: defining processed food. Doritos, processed. Not a tough call there. Raw potato with the dirt still on it: unprocessed. So far so good. But if we wash that potato, boil it, maybe peel it too...mix it with butter, and garlic (and then more butter, and more garlic)—uh-oh.
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