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WHY ULTRA-PROCESSED FOODS ARE SO BAD FOR YOU

BY TARA LAW
JANUARY 9, 2023 12:06 PM EST

    A growing number of recent studies have raised health concerns about a certain type of food that most Americans eat: ultra-processed food. Unlike minimally processed food or unprocessed foods – like eggs, for example, which travel from the farm to your kitchen looking pretty much the same – ultra-processed foods have been radically changed by manufacturers. By the time they hit your grocery shelf, they’ve likely been heated, pressed, and enhanced by additives designed to make them last longer, taste better, and appear more attractive, often to the detriment of your health.

    Ultra-processed foods tend to be junk food: low in fiber and high in sugar and calories. But because ultra-processed foods are defined by the types of ingredients they contain, not by their nutrition content, this category can also include foods with beneficial nutrients, like breads high in fiber. Anyway, longitudinal studies in the Americas and Europe have linked eating more ultra-processed food to a number of health risks, including increases in obesity, high blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes, and even dementia. Other research has linked consuming ultra-processed foods to an increased risk of early death.

    Experts agree that reducing consumption of ultra-processed foods shouldn’t be the public’s responsibility alone. Many people don’t live in communities with access to healthy, minimally processed food, which tends to be more expensive than ultra-processed food. To reduce ultra-processed food, governments will need to implement policies to expand access to healthy food, such as by limiting the availability of ultra-processed food in schools. Another important policy is for governments to warn the public about the dangers of ultra-processed food and to implement clear labelling. Some countries have already started to warn the public about ultra-processed foods.

    If people want to make their own diet healthier, a mindset change is key. First it’s important to think about food not in a calorie way, but in a “quality way”. If people want to reduce the number of ultra-processed foods they eat, they should opt for other foods that are cheap and don’t take much preparation, like beans, lentils, and eggs, or even healthy snacks, such as nuts, seeds, and whole fruit.

Available at: https://time.com/6245237/ultra-processed-foods-diet-bad/. Accessed: 22 August 2024. (Adapted)

WHY ULTRA-PROCESSED FOODS ARE SO BAD FOR YOU

BY TARA LAW
JANUARY 9, 2023 12:06 PM EST

    A growing number of recent studies have raised health concerns about a certain type of food that most Americans eat: ultra-processed food. Unlike minimally processed food or unprocessed foods – like eggs, for example, which travel from the farm to your kitchen looking pretty much the same – ultra-processed foods have been radically changed by manufacturers. By the time they hit your grocery shelf, they’ve likely been heated, pressed, and enhanced by additives designed to make them last longer, taste better, and appear more attractive, often to the detriment of your health.

    Ultra-processed foods tend to be junk food: low in fiber and high in sugar and calories. But because ultra-processed foods are defined by the types of ingredients they contain, not by their nutrition content, this category can also include foods with beneficial nutrients, like breads high in fiber. Anyway, longitudinal studies in the Americas and Europe have linked eating more ultra-processed food to a number of health risks, including increases in obesity, high blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes, and even dementia. Other research has linked consuming ultra-processed foods to an increased risk of early death.

    Experts agree that reducing consumption of ultra-processed foods shouldn’t be the public’s responsibility alone. Many people don’t live in communities with access to healthy, minimally processed food, which tends to be more expensive than ultra-processed food. To reduce ultra-processed food, governments will need to implement policies to expand access to healthy food, such as by limiting the availability of ultra-processed food in schools. Another important policy is for governments to warn the public about the dangers of ultra-processed food and to implement clear labelling. Some countries have already started to warn the public about ultra-processed foods.

    If people want to make their own diet healthier, a mindset change is key. First it’s important to think about food not in a calorie way, but in a “quality way”. If people want to reduce the number of ultra-processed foods they eat, they should opt for other foods that are cheap and don’t take much preparation, like beans, lentils, and eggs, or even healthy snacks, such as nuts, seeds, and whole fruit.

Available at: https://time.com/6245237/ultra-processed-foods-diet-bad/. Accessed: 22 August 2024. (Adapted)

WHY ULTRA-PROCESSED FOODS ARE SO BAD FOR YOU

BY TARA LAW
JANUARY 9, 2023 12:06 PM EST

    A growing number of recent studies have raised health concerns about a certain type of food that most Americans eat: ultra-processed food. Unlike minimally processed food or unprocessed foods – like eggs, for example, which travel from the farm to your kitchen looking pretty much the same – ultra-processed foods have been radically changed by manufacturers. By the time they hit your grocery shelf, they’ve likely been heated, pressed, and enhanced by additives designed to make them last longer, taste better, and appear more attractive, often to the detriment of your health.

    Ultra-processed foods tend to be junk food: low in fiber and high in sugar and calories. But because ultra-processed foods are defined by the types of ingredients they contain, not by their nutrition content, this category can also include foods with beneficial nutrients, like breads high in fiber. Anyway, longitudinal studies in the Americas and Europe have linked eating more ultra-processed food to a number of health risks, including increases in obesity, high blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes, and even dementia. Other research has linked consuming ultra-processed foods to an increased risk of early death.

    Experts agree that reducing consumption of ultra-processed foods shouldn’t be the public’s responsibility alone. Many people don’t live in communities with access to healthy, minimally processed food, which tends to be more expensive than ultra-processed food. To reduce ultra-processed food, governments will need to implement policies to expand access to healthy food, such as by limiting the availability of ultra-processed food in schools. Another important policy is for governments to warn the public about the dangers of ultra-processed food and to implement clear labelling. Some countries have already started to warn the public about ultra-processed foods.

    If people want to make their own diet healthier, a mindset change is key. First it’s important to think about food not in a calorie way, but in a “quality way”. If people want to reduce the number of ultra-processed foods they eat, they should opt for other foods that are cheap and don’t take much preparation, like beans, lentils, and eggs, or even healthy snacks, such as nuts, seeds, and whole fruit.

Available at: https://time.com/6245237/ultra-processed-foods-diet-bad/. Accessed: 22 August 2024. (Adapted)

Dysorthography: Is it a Real Disorder?

(1^st §) Some people use the term Dysorthography to refer to a dysgraphic disorder related to dyslexia. It features significant spelling mistakes while writing, and such errors can include confusions, omissions or inversions of letters and syllables, remarkably flawed conjugation, and arbitrary word breaks.

(2^nd §) Experts are still trying to pinpoint what may predispose children to develop Dysorthography. Under normal circumstances, the brain processes the information it receives through senses and stores it for later use. When kids start writing, their brains retrieve information from the short-term and long-term memory to express what they’re thinking through writing characters. In the case of children suffering from Dysgraphia, some researchers think organizing information stored in the brain or getting words onto paper by writing or typing the characters, or both of these steps in the process of writing, go off track. But there is some debate as if Dysorthography is a real mental disorder or a pedagogical issue. Those who argue in favor of conceptualizing Dysorthography as a learning disability cite Dysgraphia and Dyslexia as actual disorders related to the inability to write correctly.

(3^rd §) These people argue that nowadays children learn and adapt to this technological age a lot faster than most adults, so several experts are quick to point out the possibility of this being the result of recent changes in the way children are learning their language. Technology is a double-edged sword. It can make life and work easier, but using it in excess is making children lose their motor skills, body awareness, and skills of self-correction in writing. In fact, computers and most smartphones are capable of autocorrecting words, eliminating the need of putting an effort in our orthography.

(4^th §) While this “condition” is still a matter of debate, dyslexia and dysgraphia are still issues that people need to deal with within our current generation. That is why those who have children who display any of the usual signs of dysgraphia must seek help from professionals in the fields of mental disorders and learning disabilities.

Adapted from: https://hoool.com/dysorthography/. Accessed September 4 2024

Dysorthography: Is it a Real Disorder?

(1^st §) Some people use the term Dysorthography to refer to a dysgraphic disorder related to dyslexia. It features significant spelling mistakes while writing, and such errors can include confusions, omissions or inversions of letters and syllables, remarkably flawed conjugation, and arbitrary word breaks.

(2^nd §) Experts are still trying to pinpoint what may predispose children to develop Dysorthography. Under normal circumstances, the brain processes the information it receives through senses and stores it for later use. When kids start writing, their brains retrieve information from the short-term and long-term memory to express what they’re thinking through writing characters. In the case of children suffering from Dysgraphia, some researchers think organizing information stored in the brain or getting words onto paper by writing or typing the characters, or both of these steps in the process of writing, go off track. But there is some debate as if Dysorthography is a real mental disorder or a pedagogical issue. Those who argue in favor of conceptualizing Dysorthography as a learning disability cite Dysgraphia and Dyslexia as actual disorders related to the inability to write correctly.

(3^rd §) These people argue that nowadays children learn and adapt to this technological age a lot faster than most adults, so several experts are quick to point out the possibility of this being the result of recent changes in the way children are learning their language. Technology is a double-edged sword. It can make life and work easier, but using it in excess is making children lose their motor skills, body awareness, and skills of self-correction in writing. In fact, computers and most smartphones are capable of autocorrecting words, eliminating the need of putting an effort in our orthography.

(4^th §) While this “condition” is still a matter of debate, dyslexia and dysgraphia are still issues that people need to deal with within our current generation. That is why those who have children who display any of the usual signs of dysgraphia must seek help from professionals in the fields of mental disorders and learning disabilities.

Adapted from: https://hoool.com/dysorthography/. Accessed September 4 2024

    For 35 years, toy Garfield phones have inexplicably washed up onto the beaches along the coastal waters of Brittany, France, and now we finally know why. As it happens, the astonishing phenomenon of the lasagna-loving cat phones making their way to the French coast for years started at the height of the comic strip star’s popularity in the mid-80s when people were warming up to Jim Davis’s cartoon creation. As many as 200 Garfield’s parts were discovered strewn across France’s beaches just last year, according to FranceInfo.

    The environmental activist group Ar Vilantsou didn’t give up on finding the source. They even made Garfield the kid-friendly face of the mission to clean up the ocean pollution in the area. Recently, a farmer got in touch with the organization to say that he discovered that a metal shipping container with a massive stash of the orange Garfield telephone cargo was tucked away in the deepest recesses of a cave after a storm back in the ’80s. Both Ar Viltansou and local officials told the BBC that they are going to continue to collect these phones.

Internet: time.com/ (adapted).