I have to admit, I am guilty of buying a ready made meal from say 7-11 once in a blue moon when I'm don't have time to cook something up or I'm in a hurry to get some protein in me.

I avoid fast foods from fast food chains such as Micky D's or K Fried Chicken. 

It's just so darn easy and inexpensive to grab a snack or micro wave meal but I've always felt that it wasn't healthy at all.

Too much sodium, cholesterol, sugars, nitrates and preservatives but they are made to be palatable.

Nowadays, I will buy fruit from a local vendor and some yogurt to tied me over until I get home. 

I do not drink sweetened drink or sodas, just plain water.

I think the street vendors that sell Som Tam, Gai Yang and Khao Niao are healthier than the big fast food chains.

What are your thoughts?

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/28/ultra-processed-food-32-harmful-effects-health-review

 

 

 

Never minds the ultra processed food where its up to us to buy or not, but the air we breadth is full of dust

and harmful particles, at my home in a lofty condo with everything shut i find layers of dust everyday and everywhere,

the dust we can see, but what else is in there that we can't see?...

26 minutes ago, flyingtlger said:

It's just so darn easy and inexpensive to grab a snack or micro wave meal but I've always felt that it wasn't healthy at all.

especially if you're retired, there's no excuse to be in a hurry all the time eating processed packaged foods.

make the time. 

I looked into the whole issue not too long ago.  The experts will tell you that you shouldn’t eat any modern bread or rice, that you shouldn’t eat anything containing sugar, high fructose corn syrup, that you should avoid seed oils, and that you shouldn’t eat anything with chemicals or preservatives.  What it boils down to is that you shouldn’t eat 98% of the food sold in the typical grocery store.  Processed food and ultra processed food are responsible for many health problems.

 

One cardiologist on YouTube says you shouldn’t be eating anything that comes in a package with a barcode, if that tells you anything.