The Case for Real Food

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Walk to the edges of the grocery store, and you’ll find food that our ancestors would likely recognize: fresh food like apples, carrots, fish and eggs.

The rest of the grocery store is filled with food that our ancestors probably wouldn’t recognize: ultra-processed foods like chips and soda formulated in industrial laboratories. Researchers have linked ultra-processed food consumption to increased risk of mortality, heart…