Very true. According to the most recent studies, the consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPF) is highest in high-income Anglo-Saxon countries, where these products represent more than half of daily caloric intake.
United States: Approximately 58%–60% of daily calories come from ultra-processed foods. United Kingdom: Very close, at 57%. In children, this figure can rise to 65%.
Canada: Exceeds 50% of the average diet.
Australia: Around 42%–44%. South Africa: Approximately 39%.
Latin America: Chile and Mexico lead the region with close to 30%.
Childhood chronic illnesses such as obesity, diabetes, asthma, anxiety, and depression are on the rise; nearly one in five American children is obese, and one in seven teenagers suffers from mental health disorders. The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission, chaired by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was formed to address children's health. The Commission identified four main drivers of childhood chronic illnesses: poor diet, exposure to toxic chemicals, lack of physical activity combined with chronic stress, and overmedication through unnecessary prescriptions.
We must fight to win a battle that only leads to illness and death. Practical Strategies:
--- The 5-Ingredient Rule: When reading a label, if the product has more than five ingredients or includes names you wouldn't recognize in a home kitchen (maltodextrin, monosodium glutamate, refined vegetable oils, artificial colors), it's an ultra-processed food.
--- Prioritize the "Market" over the "Supermarket": Foods without labels (fruit, vegetables, bulk grains) are the foundation of a protective diet. Shopping at local markets drastically reduces exposure to packaged products. More difficult in cities.
-- Batch Cooking: Most people resort to ultra-processed foods due to lack of time. Spending a few hours cooking legumes, whole grains (like quinoa or basmati rice), and steamed vegetables allows you to have real food ready for busy days. Replace processed snacks with raw nuts or seeds.
-- Most name-brand bags are made of low-density polyethylene (LDPE) and are BPA (Bisphenol A) and phthalate-free. However, this doesn't make them completely inert:
Recent studies suggest that the opening, closing, and friction of flexible plastics can release microscopic plastic particles directly onto food. Plastic is lipophilic. Storing foods with oils or fats in plastic bags for extended periods promotes the absorption of certain compounds from the material.
Unlike rigid plastics, thin bags fragment more quickly into microplastics that end up in the global food chain (water and soil). Although polyethylene is recyclable, many recycling plants don't accept bags because they get tangled in the machinery.
There are chemically and environmentally more stable options: Food-grade silicone. Reusable, it withstands high temperatures without degrading. Ideal for freezing vegetables and fruits, and for transporting snacks.
Agree with you 100% and in addition would use glass containers and clean water source for fresh storage of herbs used like cilantro , basil, thyme, lettuces , spinach… as examples
They stay fresher longer in the frig for usages in green drinks and fresh salads.
Limiting seafood is helpful too 2/2 mercury levels .
Making sure eggs are PUFA free ( check your source carefully for end grain feed )
In addition to chicken, beef , lamb, etc
Be careful to look for either local or food club options where no abx or end grain feeding occurs w regenerative farm practices.
Have found asking questions clarifies where and what is used and can greatly affect the immune system and overall health.
All very useful tips. LISA👌👍🙂🌹🧡, This link analyzes the importance of incorporating local culture into community development. Territorial development policy has included social cohesion and integrated planning. Territorial approaches are better suited to the unique and complex conditions present in rural areas. Local culture is part of this subsequent development model. As a result, increasing attention is being paid to the local level and "bottom-up" approaches that focus on culture, territory, local diversity, and the optimization of local resources.
https://extension.psu.edu/importance-of-incorporating-local-culture-into-community-development It is necessary to create wealth in the human mind; autonomy and self-sufficiency create power, but self-sufficiency requires a lot of effort. It wasn't easy to stay outside the system and survive solely from the land and what it offered. However, many realized that while economic self-sufficiency is difficult to achieve in a society marked by increasing globalization, where taxes and the acquisition of certain goods create dependency, psychological self-sufficiency can be developed. That is, learning to think and decide for oneself and adopting a more critical perspective. It is difficult to achieve self-sufficiency that allows us to be self-reliant in any aspect—emotional, social, economic—but as we discover what we are capable of, we feel satisfaction with who we are, with our potential and worth. All of this is interwoven with the thread of self-esteem and self-love, essential in self-sufficient people. In short, it's about enjoying feeling responsible for our own lives.
The human mind, in all its dimensions, must be the foundation that governs against a totalitarianism that seeks to rule humanity. People must make critical and responsible decisions in the face of a reality of losing freedoms and rights. It is up to us to filter out the manipulative stimuli that seek to lead people into false beliefs and steer them down the path of false promises and the loss of true well-being, through critical thinking that fosters an encounter with truth, self-esteem, and genuine personal integration. Spiritual strength is the reserve of courage that each of us holds within our hearts, and it must be cultivated, for it helps us move forward, especially in times of adversity.
Yes - it’s the spiritual strength that gives us courage to stand and separate from control by establishing ourselves .
Our Father God gave us America beginning with the Mayflower compact giving Him honor for all He had done. We in turn must do so and more so by following with action that reflects Him.
Again… you put into words exactly where our compass is pointing
Also, if the Memory is Working, toxins, environmental toxins have been a concern for accumulating in fat cells in mammals. Do not recall if the same applies to plants. Still with plants we know toxins in feeds fed to Factory Farmed animals build up in their fats, and then if Ultra Processed a double whammy. Toxins accumulate in our fat too. A problem because nerves, brain cells are made up with fat too. Small wonder why Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other neurological Dis-Eases are also on the rise along with the cancer rates.
You're absolutely right, JUST, The phenomenon you describe is based on two key scientific principles of ecology and toxicology: bioaccumulation and biomagnification.
Recent scientific studies strongly confirm how and why this occurs in both the plant and animal kingdoms:
Many modern pollutants (such as organochlorine pesticides, dioxins, and polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs) are lipophilic, meaning they have a very low chemical affinity for water but readily dissolve and store in the fatty tissues of animals.
How do they accumulate? Because they are compounds with tremendous chemical stability, the animal's body cannot easily metabolize or excrete them. Over the years, the concentration in their fat deposits increases exponentially.
The food chain: Through biomagnification, animals higher up the food chain (large predatory fish, mammals) accumulate doses far exceeding those found freely in water or soil.
Studies in marine fauna: Research on the marine food chain in recent years (such as monitoring of animal tissues in 2025 and 2026) continues to report risks of transfer of heavy metals and contaminants that preferentially accumulate in the metabolic organs and fatty tissues of commercially caught fish.
2. Plants: Absorption from Soil and Air (And a new enemy)
In plants, accumulation is not so much due to fat (since their lipid levels are minimal in comparison), but rather to the direct absorption of heavy elements or volatile compounds by the roots and leaves.
Heavy metals: Plants absorb elements such as cadmium, lead, or arsenic from the soil, which are present in fertilizers or sewage sludge. In fact, there are varieties called hyperaccumulators that are actively used in biotechnology (phytoremediation) to "clean" contaminated soils precisely because they act like sponges for toxins.
Micro and Nanoplastics (MNPs): According to cutting-edge scientific reviews (2025–2030 period), extensive agriculture that overuses plastic coverings (plasticulture) is fragmenting this material in the soil. Recent studies have confirmed that the roots of common crops (such as lettuce or wheat) manage to internalize nanoplastics and translocate them to the aerial and edible tissues of the plant.
Links and scientific references for further information:
On Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in fatty tissues: You can review the detailed documentation from the Ministry for Ecological Transition (MITECO), which explains the lipophilic dynamics of these toxins in adipose tissue.
On toxin absorption in plants and phytoremediation: The Polytechnic University of Madrid details how plants absorb and metabolize persistent organic compounds and carcinogens.
Analysis of microplastics in vegetable crops: The recent global compendium of nutritional targets in Frontiers in Nutrition (2026) explicitly explains how vegetables absorb nanoplastics from modern agricultural soil.
Very true. According to the most recent studies, the consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPF) is highest in high-income Anglo-Saxon countries, where these products represent more than half of daily caloric intake.
United States: Approximately 58%–60% of daily calories come from ultra-processed foods. United Kingdom: Very close, at 57%. In children, this figure can rise to 65%.
Canada: Exceeds 50% of the average diet.
Australia: Around 42%–44%. South Africa: Approximately 39%.
Latin America: Chile and Mexico lead the region with close to 30%.
Continental Europe: Countries like Spain have seen a rapid increase, reaching 32%, while Italy maintains lower levels (approximately 18%) due to greater adherence to the Mediterranean diet. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ultra-processed-food-consumption-by-country/ (2025)
Childhood chronic illnesses such as obesity, diabetes, asthma, anxiety, and depression are on the rise; nearly one in five American children is obese, and one in seven teenagers suffers from mental health disorders. The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission, chaired by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was formed to address children's health. The Commission identified four main drivers of childhood chronic illnesses: poor diet, exposure to toxic chemicals, lack of physical activity combined with chronic stress, and overmedication through unnecessary prescriptions.
https://www.malone.news/p/the-maha-report
We must fight to win a battle that only leads to illness and death. Practical Strategies:
--- The 5-Ingredient Rule: When reading a label, if the product has more than five ingredients or includes names you wouldn't recognize in a home kitchen (maltodextrin, monosodium glutamate, refined vegetable oils, artificial colors), it's an ultra-processed food.
--- Prioritize the "Market" over the "Supermarket": Foods without labels (fruit, vegetables, bulk grains) are the foundation of a protective diet. Shopping at local markets drastically reduces exposure to packaged products. More difficult in cities.
-- Batch Cooking: Most people resort to ultra-processed foods due to lack of time. Spending a few hours cooking legumes, whole grains (like quinoa or basmati rice), and steamed vegetables allows you to have real food ready for busy days. Replace processed snacks with raw nuts or seeds.
-- Most name-brand bags are made of low-density polyethylene (LDPE) and are BPA (Bisphenol A) and phthalate-free. However, this doesn't make them completely inert:
Recent studies suggest that the opening, closing, and friction of flexible plastics can release microscopic plastic particles directly onto food. Plastic is lipophilic. Storing foods with oils or fats in plastic bags for extended periods promotes the absorption of certain compounds from the material.
Unlike rigid plastics, thin bags fragment more quickly into microplastics that end up in the global food chain (water and soil). Although polyethylene is recyclable, many recycling plants don't accept bags because they get tangled in the machinery.
There are chemically and environmentally more stable options: Food-grade silicone. Reusable, it withstands high temperatures without degrading. Ideal for freezing vegetables and fruits, and for transporting snacks.
https://foodpackagingforum.org/news/report-links-food-packaging-to-consumption-of-millions-or-even-billions-of-plastic-particles (2026)
Good morning friend!
Thank yoy so much for all
Your help and input !
Agree with you 100% and in addition would use glass containers and clean water source for fresh storage of herbs used like cilantro , basil, thyme, lettuces , spinach… as examples
They stay fresher longer in the frig for usages in green drinks and fresh salads.
Limiting seafood is helpful too 2/2 mercury levels .
Making sure eggs are PUFA free ( check your source carefully for end grain feed )
In addition to chicken, beef , lamb, etc
Be careful to look for either local or food club options where no abx or end grain feeding occurs w regenerative farm practices.
Have found asking questions clarifies where and what is used and can greatly affect the immune system and overall health.
All very useful tips. LISA👌👍🙂🌹🧡, This link analyzes the importance of incorporating local culture into community development. Territorial development policy has included social cohesion and integrated planning. Territorial approaches are better suited to the unique and complex conditions present in rural areas. Local culture is part of this subsequent development model. As a result, increasing attention is being paid to the local level and "bottom-up" approaches that focus on culture, territory, local diversity, and the optimization of local resources.
https://extension.psu.edu/importance-of-incorporating-local-culture-into-community-development It is necessary to create wealth in the human mind; autonomy and self-sufficiency create power, but self-sufficiency requires a lot of effort. It wasn't easy to stay outside the system and survive solely from the land and what it offered. However, many realized that while economic self-sufficiency is difficult to achieve in a society marked by increasing globalization, where taxes and the acquisition of certain goods create dependency, psychological self-sufficiency can be developed. That is, learning to think and decide for oneself and adopting a more critical perspective. It is difficult to achieve self-sufficiency that allows us to be self-reliant in any aspect—emotional, social, economic—but as we discover what we are capable of, we feel satisfaction with who we are, with our potential and worth. All of this is interwoven with the thread of self-esteem and self-love, essential in self-sufficient people. In short, it's about enjoying feeling responsible for our own lives.
The human mind, in all its dimensions, must be the foundation that governs against a totalitarianism that seeks to rule humanity. People must make critical and responsible decisions in the face of a reality of losing freedoms and rights. It is up to us to filter out the manipulative stimuli that seek to lead people into false beliefs and steer them down the path of false promises and the loss of true well-being, through critical thinking that fosters an encounter with truth, self-esteem, and genuine personal integration. Spiritual strength is the reserve of courage that each of us holds within our hearts, and it must be cultivated, for it helps us move forward, especially in times of adversity.
Yes - it’s the spiritual strength that gives us courage to stand and separate from control by establishing ourselves .
Our Father God gave us America beginning with the Mayflower compact giving Him honor for all He had done. We in turn must do so and more so by following with action that reflects Him.
Again… you put into words exactly where our compass is pointing
Thank you
Also, if the Memory is Working, toxins, environmental toxins have been a concern for accumulating in fat cells in mammals. Do not recall if the same applies to plants. Still with plants we know toxins in feeds fed to Factory Farmed animals build up in their fats, and then if Ultra Processed a double whammy. Toxins accumulate in our fat too. A problem because nerves, brain cells are made up with fat too. Small wonder why Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other neurological Dis-Eases are also on the rise along with the cancer rates.
You're absolutely right, JUST, The phenomenon you describe is based on two key scientific principles of ecology and toxicology: bioaccumulation and biomagnification.
Recent scientific studies strongly confirm how and why this occurs in both the plant and animal kingdoms:
1. Animal Fats: Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
Many modern pollutants (such as organochlorine pesticides, dioxins, and polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs) are lipophilic, meaning they have a very low chemical affinity for water but readily dissolve and store in the fatty tissues of animals.
How do they accumulate? Because they are compounds with tremendous chemical stability, the animal's body cannot easily metabolize or excrete them. Over the years, the concentration in their fat deposits increases exponentially.
The food chain: Through biomagnification, animals higher up the food chain (large predatory fish, mammals) accumulate doses far exceeding those found freely in water or soil.
Studies in marine fauna: Research on the marine food chain in recent years (such as monitoring of animal tissues in 2025 and 2026) continues to report risks of transfer of heavy metals and contaminants that preferentially accumulate in the metabolic organs and fatty tissues of commercially caught fish.
2. Plants: Absorption from Soil and Air (And a new enemy)
In plants, accumulation is not so much due to fat (since their lipid levels are minimal in comparison), but rather to the direct absorption of heavy elements or volatile compounds by the roots and leaves.
Heavy metals: Plants absorb elements such as cadmium, lead, or arsenic from the soil, which are present in fertilizers or sewage sludge. In fact, there are varieties called hyperaccumulators that are actively used in biotechnology (phytoremediation) to "clean" contaminated soils precisely because they act like sponges for toxins.
Micro and Nanoplastics (MNPs): According to cutting-edge scientific reviews (2025–2030 period), extensive agriculture that overuses plastic coverings (plasticulture) is fragmenting this material in the soil. Recent studies have confirmed that the roots of common crops (such as lettuce or wheat) manage to internalize nanoplastics and translocate them to the aerial and edible tissues of the plant.
Links and scientific references for further information:
On Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in fatty tissues: You can review the detailed documentation from the Ministry for Ecological Transition (MITECO), which explains the lipophilic dynamics of these toxins in adipose tissue.
https://www.miteco.gob.es/content/dam/miteco/es/calidad-y-evaluacion-ambiental/publicaciones/COPs_tcm30-185064.pdf
On toxin absorption in plants and phytoremediation: The Polytechnic University of Madrid details how plants absorb and metabolize persistent organic compounds and carcinogens.
https://www.upm.es/UPM/SalaPrensa/NoticiasPortada/NoticiasAppPersonalPDI?fmt=detail&prefmt=articulo&id=0725b91bdb2fb710VgnVCM10000009c7648a____
Analysis of microplastics in vegetable crops: The recent global compendium of nutritional targets in Frontiers in Nutrition (2026) explicitly explains how vegetables absorb nanoplastics from modern agricultural soil.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/nutrition/articles/10.3389/fnut.2026.1784021/full