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What's Really so Bad about Processed Food, Anyway - Melanie Warner - Q & A

888 views · Published 20 February 2016 · 14:19 · Indexed 2 October 2026

Channel: The Real Truth About Health · 2016 · Science & Technology

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Expert Panel Host:  Melanie Warner
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• Melanie Warner tells the story of what happens to processed foods before they reach our plates (or are handed to us through a car window.) With packaged foods and fast foods so ubiquitous — comprising roughly 70 percent of the calories we consume — it’s easy to overlook the fact that our diets have changed more in the last 100 years than they have in the last 10,000. Much of what we now eat is not so much as cooked, as it is engineered into finely-tuned, nutrient-deficient creations of science.

Former New York Times business reporter Melanie Warner offers a rare look inside the monumentally complex edifice of America’s food manufacturing industry and presents a case for why our high-tech, Byzantine system of food processing is of profound importance to a nation of eaters who are overweight, and half of whom suffer from at least one diet-related chronic disease. Melanie Warner takes us inside the labs and high-tech facilities that help churn out the cheapest, most abundant, most addictive and most nutritionally devastating food in the world. We learn how some of our most popular foods are produced and meet the people who, today and over the past century, have helped redefine what Americans eat.

Melanie Warner delves into the hidden world of food processing. From the origins of the FDA to the presence of soybean oil in nearly everything, Melanie exposes the industries that create much of what we eat today and that are partly to blame for our nation’s health crisis.

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