You constantly hear about how processed food is bad for your health and should be avoided. But what is it and why is it so bad?
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Not all “processing” is bad. You want the pesticide washed off your food and your milk pasteurized. Unhealthy food is often “highly processed”. For example, beets are pretty good, they are tasty vegetables; but if you process them to remove all the vegetable and only have table sugar left you’ve turned them into a highly processed food that’s not good for you. Corn is good, high fructose corn syrup is bad. …
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