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Trucks around the world assemble to deliver trash to Puente Hills in California. "Its nickname is trash city".

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This shows the diet of an average person living in America. More than half of what you eat is filled with ultra processed foods.

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The Problem With Processed Food and How We Can Solve It

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The Problem With Processed Food and How We Can Solve It

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The problem with this world is how much unhealthy processed food we eat. “According to a study published in Frontiers in Nutrition, more than 60 percent of caloric intake in the U.S. comes from ultra-processed food.”A solution to solve the problem individually is that you can snack on fruits, nuts and vegetables instead of chips, crackers and other processed foods. Another suggestion is instead of eating your normal processed lunch, switch out the high processed foods with fruits or vegetables. Sometimes you can also put some crackers, but make sure they're multigrain. A school in Arizona has banned lunches with processed foods. “Parents who pack lunches for their children who attend Children's Success Academy in Tucson, Ariz. had better give a lot of thought to it. The public charter school doesn't allow any foods made with processed and refined ingredients. So bleached flour and refined sugar are out.” This is a step that a whole school can take to make sure their students are being healthy while at school. A solution for Mary Ellen Henderson is to take out the vending machines and take out all of the ultra processed chips. An organization called My Plate Recipes. “Finding healthier recipes to serve your family is easier than ever, now that five of America’s largest media companies have teamed up with Pinterest and the Partnership for a Healthier America in an effort to make it easier for their millions of online visitors to put nutritious meals on the table every day.” This is a another solution to solve the issue of processed foods and it will help your everyday life too.

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Processed food will most likely be cheaper than healthy/unprocessed foods. Since processed food is cheaper it means that more people will have access to it and that more people will want to buy it because it is cheaper and it tastes better than healthy food. Also processed foods usually come in smaller quantities than healthy not processed food. Instead of going out to eat, you should instead stay in and cook a healthy (not processed meal). This will help your personal finances and will definitely affect your health.“Unhealthy food choices tend to be cheaper. A comprehensive review of 27 studies in 10 countries found that unhealthy food is about $1.50 cheaper per day than healthy food. If you're feeding a large family, it may cost less to simply buy from the dollar menu or purchase cheap premade frozen dinners.” Another point is that people like to buy pre-made meals which tend to always be highly processed.Industries like Nabisco have a net worth around 4.9 billion. This will not help the economy at all because Nabisco will be able to pay their employees which will definitely not shut down the company. In conclusion, if you stay away from highly processed foods it will help your personal finances and help shut down processed food industries, or maybe cause a difference in your athletic ability.

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Environmental Impacts of Processed Food 

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A big problem all over the world right now is climate change. Ultra-processed food production uses huge amounts of land.water,energy,herbicides and fertilizers. This all causes “eutrophication and environmental degradation from greenhouse gas emissions and accumulation of packaging waste”. “Eutrophication is a natural process that results from accumulation of nutrients in lakes or other bodies of water.” An example of packaging waste is when for every human that goes to a fast food place to order processed foods, they get their food wrapped in plastic, paper and sometimes if they eat in the restaurant they use plastic utensils. This all accumulates to pollution which leads to climate change. If the whole world cuts down on processed foods it will lead to less packaging waste and the world will be a lot better and cleaner. According to the United Nations, “Food needs to be grown and processed, transported, distributed, prepared, consumed, and sometimes disposed of. Each of these steps creates greenhouse gasses that trap the sun’s heat and contribute to climate change. About a third of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions is linked to food.” For example if you go to a grocery store and you want to get an apple you don't have to take a whole cardboard box, plastic box or paper just to get fruit or vegetables. If you get ice cream sandwiches though, then the effect is that you have to get a whole box. In conclusion this shows how eating healthier and staying away from ultra processed foods will benefit you and the earth.

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When you process food you usually process it in big amounts. This means that there are many factories to produce the food. In the factories the working conditions are not very healthy. Often people are “regularly exposed to loud sounds and distracting noise levels from kitchen equipment.” They are also sometimes exposed to very hot or very cold temperatures. Exposed to contaminants. “Are occasionally exposed to hazardous situations and equipment that may produce cuts or minor burns.” These are all the working conditions that people have to work in every day of their lives. If we cut down on all of this processed food it would help reduce the amount of risk we are putting into others peoples lives. Another effect that processed food can cause is obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. Heavily processed foods include levels of added sugar, sodium and fat. All of these ingredients make the food that we eat taste a lot better, but they lead to a lot of health conditions. A big problem in the world right now is poverty. People who are poor can not afford the same things that other people in the world can. This means that “In low-income countries, 87 percent of people cannot afford healthy diets.” This is a huge problem because just because they don't have the same amount of money that other people have, they are still humans and all of the unhealthy food that they are eating will lead them to bad health conditions. In conclusion there are many impacts that processed food can cause which will not help your health conditions or your safety.

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Food processing has been around for a very long time.The first form of food processing was started by our earliest ancestors by “simply adding heat to meats, seeds and vegetables as early as 1.5 million years ago. Simple food preservation methods followed, including drying, smoking and salting, in some of the earliest civilizations, including Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt, as early as 9600 BC.” Not long after the use of food additives increased during the Industrial Revolution. “In 1898, the New York Biscuit Company and the American Biscuit and Manufacturing Company merged over 100 bakeries into the National Biscuit Company, later called Nabisco.” Nabisco prospered in the processed food market because of the quality of the product and the marketing. They had billboards hung up in popular areas and their marketing of the food caught the attention of many people. Nabisco's most popular products are Oreos and Ritz crackers. Now food processing has finally developed to where it makes it so food can stay in your pantry longer than it should. Brands like General Mills, Kelloggs and US Foods are some of the most processed brands in the world. To this date pretty much every food you eat has at least some preservatives in it. Some can be healthier than others, and some can be some of the most processed foods there are to eat. In conclusion processed food has changed massively over time, to the point where food can stay in a pantry a lot longer than before.