A short conversational excerpt from a YouTube video ("No More Processed Foods!" by Joy Kong, MD) arguing that the primary cause of food-related illnesses is food processing. The speakers state three mechanisms by which processing harms food: removing components that should remain, adding substances that shouldn't be there, and chemically altering molecules into forms not found in nature.
Of all these different oils, and of course they sound harmless, but it's really not about what they were before they were processed. It's really about how they were processed.
The biggest issue is processing. And if you think about food related illnesses, you know, now there's a big deal about ultra processed foods. If you want to find one reason for why people get sick from what they eat, processing would be number one reason. You were taking things out that should be in there, and we're putting things in that shouldn't be there, and we're changing molecules into something that didn't exist in nature. And those are the three things.
