A lot of us have been hearing about the problem of ultra-processed foods. They

disregulate our systems we're told, they trick our brains. There's even some

speculation they're addictive. But why is everything so processed these days?

There are some understandable reasons.

If you grow cobs of corn, you harvest them all at the end of August, and the public market for cobs of buttered corn with salt on them is very limited

you know you only want to eat them once twice a week so if you're a corn farmer what

you want to do is turn your cup of corn into modified maize starch,

modified corn protein isolate, high fructose corn syrup, corn oil,

you want to create the base ingredients that have an infinite shelf life, nearly infinite,

and can be used in everything.

Coming up on today explained, a doctor shares his research from a new book, Ultra processed people.

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