Dr. Chris Palmer
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What we do know overall, and this unfortunately comes down to epidemiological studies where they just look at hundreds of thousands if not millions of people and they assess like how much ultra-processed food Is this person eating? And is that associated?
If we look at large populations of people and we stratify them by these people are eating mostly ultra-processed foods and these people are hardly eating any. Are there differences in their health outcomes? And the answer to that is unequivocal. And it is perfectly clear. The more ultra-processed foods you eat, the worse your physical and mental health. Both. It's cardiovascular disease.
If we look at large populations of people and we stratify them by these people are eating mostly ultra-processed foods and these people are hardly eating any. Are there differences in their health outcomes? And the answer to that is unequivocal. And it is perfectly clear. The more ultra-processed foods you eat, the worse your physical and mental health. Both. It's cardiovascular disease.
If we look at large populations of people and we stratify them by these people are eating mostly ultra-processed foods and these people are hardly eating any. Are there differences in their health outcomes? And the answer to that is unequivocal. And it is perfectly clear. The more ultra-processed foods you eat, the worse your physical and mental health. Both. It's cardiovascular disease.
It's obesity. It's diabetes. It's mortality. It's cancer. It's also a broad range of mental disorders. And so we know that we've got more granular data that's hyper focuses on the mental health story. You know, one study over 300,000 people, the more ultra processed foods you eat, a direct linear relationship. It was shocking how linear it was.
It's obesity. It's diabetes. It's mortality. It's cancer. It's also a broad range of mental disorders. And so we know that we've got more granular data that's hyper focuses on the mental health story. You know, one study over 300,000 people, the more ultra processed foods you eat, a direct linear relationship. It was shocking how linear it was.
It's obesity. It's diabetes. It's mortality. It's cancer. It's also a broad range of mental disorders. And so we know that we've got more granular data that's hyper focuses on the mental health story. You know, one study over 300,000 people, the more ultra processed foods you eat, a direct linear relationship. It was shocking how linear it was.
The more ultra processed foods you eat, the worse your mental health. And it was so striking. It was not a subtle difference. It wasn't like, you know, oh, it was a 3% difference between the lowest. It was a threefold difference. The people who consumed ultra-processed foods every day multiple times a day
The more ultra processed foods you eat, the worse your mental health. And it was so striking. It was not a subtle difference. It wasn't like, you know, oh, it was a 3% difference between the lowest. It was a threefold difference. The people who consumed ultra-processed foods every day multiple times a day
The more ultra processed foods you eat, the worse your mental health. And it was so striking. It was not a subtle difference. It wasn't like, you know, oh, it was a 3% difference between the lowest. It was a threefold difference. The people who consumed ultra-processed foods every day multiple times a day
58% of them had poor mental health compared to only 18% of the people who rarely or never consumed ultra-processed foods.
58% of them had poor mental health compared to only 18% of the people who rarely or never consumed ultra-processed foods.
58% of them had poor mental health compared to only 18% of the people who rarely or never consumed ultra-processed foods.
Yeah, I'm not going to give a cliche answer because this is the trillion dollar question that everybody's asking. And And it really, you know, the health of our country really kind of depends on it. With billions of dollars that this industry has in revenue annually,
Yeah, I'm not going to give a cliche answer because this is the trillion dollar question that everybody's asking. And And it really, you know, the health of our country really kind of depends on it. With billions of dollars that this industry has in revenue annually,
Yeah, I'm not going to give a cliche answer because this is the trillion dollar question that everybody's asking. And And it really, you know, the health of our country really kind of depends on it. With billions of dollars that this industry has in revenue annually,
They can spend a lot of that money on really impactful marketing campaigns, getting people to believe that it's not as unhealthy as Chris Palmer and Andrew Huberman are saying. It's fine. Everybody deserves a treat. Within the last couple of weeks, the American Heart Association announced
They can spend a lot of that money on really impactful marketing campaigns, getting people to believe that it's not as unhealthy as Chris Palmer and Andrew Huberman are saying. It's fine. Everybody deserves a treat. Within the last couple of weeks, the American Heart Association announced
They can spend a lot of that money on really impactful marketing campaigns, getting people to believe that it's not as unhealthy as Chris Palmer and Andrew Huberman are saying. It's fine. Everybody deserves a treat. Within the last couple of weeks, the American Heart Association announced
was actively lobbying against a Texas bill that was trying to restrict spending food stamp money on junk food.