Watched this 2021 UK documentary yesterday & it was very interesting. Dr Chris van Tulleken put himself on an ultra processed diet to see the impacts on his health. The results were quite frightening & also thought provoking. Within a month his body was producing more hunger hormones & fewer of the full/satiated hormones. He was never full & was always hungry. His brain was creating new links which are very similar to those formed with alcohol, cigarette & drug addictions. And of course the expected increases in weight, cholesterol, etc. Scariest was that they don’t believe some of these changes will ever be completely reversed by returning to a low processed diet.

Could explain the struggle many of us continue to experience with hunger, cravings, etc.

Worth watching if you can find it. I watched it on Netflix here in Australia.

I watched it and it shocked me. About 20 years ago they took cookery from the UK schools curriculum. In my humble opinion it was one of the worst thing the government decided upon. All to save money. Its costing lots now because if you are not learned basic cookery at an early age then your only option is to go down the high calorie, take away and processed food options to feed your family.

I had a little trouble tracking it down to watch (US) but finally found it on Vimeo. It was very interesting and definitely worth the watch! Thanks for the suggestion.

That's so scary. Even before I attempted to lose weight I learned a lot about nutrition and cut most of that stuff out of my diet. It's just all so bad for you, and it really doesn't taste good, especially if you've been away from it. It was hard for me at first with all of this because of the artificial sweeteners in the shakes and stuff. I worked to cut all of that out of my diet a long time ago and I hated it having to add some of it back.
I'm happy to be able to avoid all that stuff again.
When my son was little I was so picky about everything I fed him, then he went to school and got exposed to all that junk food. He never even had soda until last year at a school party and now he likes it. [emoji849] It's so frustrating, because it's everywhere.