Women who spend a lot of time on TikTok—especially those seeing a lot of pro-anorexia content—feel worse about their appearance, a new study shows. The results suggest that high TikTok exposure could harm mental health, reducing body image satisfaction and increasing the risk for disordered eating behavior.
Agreed 100%. Learning to cook also gives people a visual image of ingredients.
If you’ve never cooked before, reading that a 12oz can of Coke has 39g of sugar in it will just go over your head. As someone who cooks, makes sauces, drinks, etc., I understand that that number is ridiculous for one single drink, I usually use about that much sugar for a gallon of iced tea.
Yup, 90% of what makes manufactured foods so unhealthy is that the ingredients are wildly overportioned basically to cut the corners between homemade/artisan work and industrial mass production.
It’s literally built to only be “good enough”, and that in part means shoving as much sugar in that bitch as solubility will allow to make sure it’ll taste ok-ish even way past when normal equivalents would have spoiled.
This is also why anyone who comes to the US from abroad swears our food tastes sickeningly sweeter than their own domestic equivalents.
Of course then we’re getting into HFCS which is a whole can of worms within the can of worms of why home cooking is always gonna be better for you even when you home cook something that’s an abomination unto god in health terms like a pizza stuffed pizza or a fry burger or a grilled cheese packed as dense with bacon and caramelized everything and marmalade and anything else you can cram in there as possible. It’s because home preparing and assembling the ingredients already takes out a shitton of the sugars that were being used to artificially enhance the taste to cover up the mass manufacture corner cutting.
I think eating a majority home-cooked meals changes your relationship with food as a whole. So that if you were to eat or drink something that had an imbalance of a certain ingredient or was highly processed you can taste it and it tastes much differently than if you eat a majority processed food diet. Food addiction is freakin’ awful though, and it affects a lot of Americans. And once an addict, always an addict - even if in recovery =/!