Of course. And historically, US health care costs rose at about the rate of inflation until the late 1960s, where the curve tilted strongly upwards at a much higher rate, and continues today.
What happened in the late 1960s? The advent of "free" healthcare!
It doesn’t necessarily mean unhealthy but in reality there is a very strong correlation between food being processed and having too much sugar, salt , fat or other stuff. A lot of these foods are designed for addictiveness .
It depends on the classification system, but yes, whole grain cereal with added sugar and preservatives for shelf-life is often classified as ultra-processed.
That said, I think framing all UPFs or processed foods as "bad" misses the point. What really matters is the nutritional value of the food itself. A food being ultra-processed doesn’t automatically make it less healthy than a minimally processed one.
We should focus more on what’s actually in the food: the sugar content, fiber, protein, fat, micro-nutrients, rather than just whether it’s been processed or not.
TLDR: It's the label telling what is in the food that matters, not the processes it underwent, although that can be VERY helpful for certain people who value how their food is made for moral/ethical/health reasons.
"That said, I think framing all UPFs or processed foods as "bad" misses the point. What really matters is the nutritional value of the food itself. A food being ultra-processed doesn’t automatically make it less healthy than a minimally processed one."
Figuring out which ultra processed foods are ok and which ones aren't is very difficult and can be manipulated. I think it's much easier to avoid that stuff and cook from scratch.
>They can’t imagine going without food for a few hours.
The best example of this phenomena is the movies. People start snacking the moment they enter and continue through the whole show, which is a conditioned response that theatres quite literally created -- normalizing that it's a "part of the experience" -- for revenue production.
Can people really not fathom going a couple of hours without stuffing their faces? It's bizarre.
I feel the same way about flying. It's amazing how demanding people are to be fed on even short flights, when the whole process is just annoying and overbearing.
Snacking is an American/Anglo world thing. As are terrible manners in general. Civilized people sit down and eat at the table, and that includes having their children do the same - even for snacks (there are some exceptions, of course). That also goes for devices at the table, either at home or restaurants (truly incredible that people abuse their children this way). Yes, I have very strong opinions on this as a father who's seen that there's another way called "being a parent".
I don’t have kids but I was kid. We almost never had snacks. There were no parents that would bring snacks after soccer practice. You just ate what you got during regular meal times. And sometimes you would pack a sandwich.
I used to like the V12 sound on TV but when I watched a race in Monza I could barely take the sound after a while. It was just too loud and intense. Even with earplugs.
I will admit i thought the same initially. But the article does say
> ChatGPT Enterprise already does not use business data, including inputs or outputs, to train or improve OpenAI models. The same safeguards will apply to federal use.
It would make sense for a company to pay the government for the privilege of inserting themselves into the data flow.
By charging an extremely low amount, they position it as something which should be paid for while removing the actual payment friction.
It’s all obviously strategic lock-in. One hopes the government is smart enough to know that and account for it, but we are all understandably very cynical about the government’s ability to function reasonably.
They were libertarians until they realized that working with a friendly government is even more profitable. We see more and more a merger of business and government. I think there is a name for that but I don’t recall at the moment.
