• Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    My best friend from childhood eats like this. He has had multiple seizures on and off the road, been out of work for years on disability due to seizures and being unable to operate a vehicle to get to and from work.

    Still doesn’t eat veggies at all. Thinks chicken nuggets are a balanced diet.

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          1 year ago

          Chicken cutlets are chicken cutlets. Chicken nuggets, in my experience, are usually processed chicken that is blended, colored, and then shaped and textured through additives. Those are the types that come in the freezer bags and that you get at many fast-food restaurants (and are the type pictured here). Those are linked to cancer:

          https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/15/study-ultra-processed-foods-like-chicken-nuggets-linked-to-cancer.html

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              1 year ago

              You can eat your nuggies, man. But there are plenty more studies correlating the consumption of processed food, which includes mechanically separated chicken nuggets, with increased rates of cancer–that’s partially why they could run the meta-analysis in the first place.

              Which is it? Chicken nuggets aren’t processed foods? Or your new argument that meta-studies aren’t particular enough to implicate your specific brand of chicken nuggies?

              My point remains that there is correlative research indicating that heavily processed foods, which include chicken nuggets, as I defined them, are linked to cancer. Arguing on the details to try to make the case chicken nuggets aren’t bad for you seems like more work than you need to be pouring into this.