吃加工食品是“不是坏事”——听这RD解释为什么

加工食品:这两个词足以让大多数fitness-lovers碰壁。他们第一个食物人会告诉你,以避免当你想要吃得更健康,有原因,我们倾向于认为加工的食物,比如薯片,饼干,糖果,更有可能添加糖、甜味剂和更多的卡路里少的营养价值。

但这并不意味着所有加工食品是不健康的。据美国农业部,“加工食品”是任何食物机械地从他们的自然状态改变。水洗袋装菠菜,包装好的西兰花,豆类罐头,冷冻水果,所有这些和更多的健康食品技术处理。很多人忘记了,这就是为什么我们都很高兴看到这一点最近Instagram发布从卡拉Harbstreet,女士,RD, LD的所有者街头智慧营养。

“友好的提醒,使大多数食品加工成可食用的东西,“注册营养师在帖子中写道。“吃“加工食品”不是一件坏事。”In the caption, she went on to explain that a main tentpole of many diets is "the vilification of processed food. Not only can I not get down with the holier-than-thou implication that eating unprocessed/pure/whole food is somehow better, but I can't wrap my head around the total disregard of all the ways processing turns raw ingredients into edible, nourishing, better tasting foods."

卡拉向POPSUGAR解释说,“处理”这个词通常是断章取义的健康和健康的世界。”虽然它曾经被称为必要的步骤来改善口味,耐储存,或营养,现在扮演一些消极的事情时,应该避免。”Processing, she added, can make food "affordable, nourishing, and accessible to people everywhere, at any time of the year." Surrounding it with negative connotations can introduce unwarranted feelings of distrust, shame, or even fear.

“这篇文章的目的是提醒人们食物并不是一个道德的选择,吃一种特定的方式不让他们一个好的或坏的人,”卡拉说。的指导原则之一直观的吃,这种做法卡拉在她的文章里引用。“直觉饮食并没有说所有的食物营养是等价的,”她在标题中写道,“但它说他们道德上等价的。”Does some processing change the nutritional content of a food? Yes, Cara wrote, "but it doesn't make you a bad person if you eat [it], and it doesn't mean you're doing a total disservice to your health, either." That's an idea that can help all of us heal our relationships with food, processed or not.