Ben GreenfieldFounder, Ben Greenfield Life

The HACK YOU MUST KNOW For Making Ultra Processed Foods Less Unhealthy

16 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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Ben Greenfield covers exercise snacks like stair climbing throughout the day to improve fitness and glucose control, which sports reduce mortality most, and how eating ultra-processed foods high in protein and low in carbs makes people eat fewer calories and burn more energy.

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It showed that brief, intermittent bouts of activity ("exercise snacks") can enhance fitness and glucose control beyond a single structured workout.

47% lower all-cause risk of mortality.

28% lower all-cause risk of mortality.

27% lower all-cause risk of mortality.

15% lower all-cause risk of mortality.

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A 2022 review showed exercise snacks Brief, intermittent bouts of activity like stair climbing, let's say for a couple of minutes several times per day or again, doing some jumping jacks or push ups during a day of work can enhance fitness and glucose control beyond what a structured workout at the beginning or the end of the day is capable of doing. Racket Sports had a 47% lower all cause risk of mortality swimming 28% lower all cause risk of mortality aerobics 27% lower and CYC 15% lower. So racket sports beat the pants. Yay for pickleball. Beat the pants off of everything. I said I'd have a hack for you for making ultra processed foods less unhealthy. And even though I'm not a fan of ultra processed foods, sometimes you do find yourself at a gas station on a long road trip and you gotta take one for the table. But there was a recent study in which they had young adults eat a diet rich in ultra processed food, and the participants ate fewer calories and burned more calories if their diet was high in protein and low in carbohydrates.