Courtney Swan
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I actually didn't hear that, but I mean- Yeah, yeah.
So anyway, okay.
Oh, no, you're good.
I mean, it's just the over-processing of our food.
And that's what I really got into when I started learning about our food system and how we've
largely stopped eating real food.
So if you look at Americans' diets right now, about 60% of Americans' diets comprise of ultra-processed foods.
And it's theorized that that might actually even be larger now, like 75%.
I actually didn't know that people were eating meals there.
I mean, it makes sense because they have those, you know, ultra processed packaged sandwiches.
Well, and I'm old enough to remember as a kid, the gas stations, you'd have like a, you know, vending machine for Coca-Cola.
And if you think about it, so let's break down their meals.
So let's say they're going to breakfast and they're getting, I don't know, maybe they're getting like a burrito from 7-Eleven or something and a coffee.
And then they go for lunch and they're getting an ultra-processed sandwich that, you know, is enriched flour, processed deli meat that probably has nitrates and nitrites, a laundry list of ingredients that's in that bread.
and vegetables that are soggy and probably have no nutrients whatsoever.
And then probably a bag of chips.
So like some fried corn.
And a soda.
Yeah, their Big Gulp.
And then you go to dinner and maybe they go out to eat, maybe they go through the drive-thru and they get McDonald's or maybe they're eating something at home, but it's probably still like a frozen pizza or whatever it is.