Welcome to the Eat This Not That podcast. I'm John Hammond, and this is Megan Murphy.

Hi, everybody.

And, you know, so often on this show, we talk about the need to cut out overly processed foods from your diet.

But we don't really tell you why, right?

It's always like don't eat processed foods or fewer processed foods for better health. But what does that really mean?

Yeah, we haven't really dove into it so much. And we've all heard the phrase processed foods by now, but many of us may have have a hard time really grasping what that means in terms of what life would be like without processed foods.

For example, your health, your mood in your

appearance will all improve. And we're talking drastic improvements. Huge improvements.

Because processed foods are loaded with chemicals. They can be highly addictive. And usually

processed foods are sold in bags, boxes, and jars. They're not the fresh foods you're going

to be getting at the market.

And armies of food scientists make it their personal mission to come up with recipes that appeal to your taste buds, even if it means damaging your health. So that's why they make it as tasty

and as addictive as possible. And I mean, I think it's hard, too, because, you know, I grew up

with processed foods. And, you know, I grew up with processed foods and, you know, you know, I'm, I'm

well into my 40s, let's say. And, you know, when I was, when I was a kid, my parents didn't

think anything about serving processed food, like the cereals in the morning and those, in those kinds

of things, it was normal. And also, I think at that point in time,

everything was blitzed on the front, like vitamins and minerals and iron and fortified. And it felt

like you were doing something better for yourself. But it turns out, like, look, at the end of

the day, the generations before me and probably my parents even, they kind of had it right.

Like you just ate food that looked like food.

Yeah.

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