1037: How Ultra-Processed Foods Are Making You Fat, Sick, & Weak

If you eat lots of ultra-processed foods, regardless of how aware you are about your health, it will push you to want to overeat

Create barriers between you and ultra-processed foods and eliminate barriers between you and healthy foods

If you're otherwise healthy, avoiding ultra-processed foods will probably bring your body to a relatively healthy body weight on its own

If we were to say, 'What is the single biggest health problem of modern society?' - I think it would be safe to say the answer is obesity

We now engineer the fuck out of food to mess with all these signals. We've gone beyond fat, salt, and sugar to color and taste. We then use chemicals to trick our brain into wanting to eat more.

Add a barrier between you and ultra-processed foods

The more food doesn't resemble its natural state, the more processed it is

One of the best ways to prevent or to stop impulsive behaviors is to create space between you and that behavior

The top selling food in any category is always the one that tastes the best

At what point do we start looking at food and saying, 'Holy shit, this can be as dangerous as cigarettes'

America is the processed food capital of the world

We perceive cooking as not a good time, it's a fucking great time when you're doing it with other people

The fitness space is full of people with poor relationships with their body and food

If you just make the healthy choice, a lot of the time cravings disappear

Some of the best time that I spend with my kids is when we're sitting around prepping food together