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Nov. 12, 1957: Kevin Wakefield, during snack time, makes kindergarten history by selecting the soda cracker over the graham.

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[–] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

In reality, most processed food is stripped of its fibre, commonly with lots of extra sugar, salt, junk oils, sketchy additives added, and often vitamins, minerals, phyto-compounds etc processed away.

It's not about a donut here and there, it's about the common foods we regularly eat that we think are 'okay,' and are more like junk food in reality. Bread & pasta are some easy examples.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Aye, once you have to give up salt (sodium) and really start reading labels, looking around and whatnot for that purpose (blood pressure, heart disease), you end up learning about "splitting the sugars" in labeling and keep going down the rabbit hole. Oh gosh now you're reading about additives, and...

    Cutting sodium out of my diet caused a removal of all those other preprocessed things which in turn has lead to more fresh vegetables, fruits and nuts every day and healthy weight loss. What started out as a necessity has become a "hey, this is actually nice" eating life without added salts and sugars, along with increased fibre and nutritional value.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 days ago

    "Health is wealth" as the saying goes, and yet from what I'm aware of, nutrition education is sorely lacking in the States (dunno about CAN). I was lucky in that they offered courses in college, so that was my own rabbit hole.

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