I wonder how many diseases are becoming more prevalent because we eat manufactured food on a long term basis. Additives have been approved on the ground that they are not harmful to our body, yet we know very little in which ways they may influence our gut microbes (e.g. [1]).

A higher proportion of North Americans tend to find certain kinds of food/snacks from other cultures gross, yet the perfectly sterilized/packaged/high-sugar food options here are probably much more harmful.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181001101932.h...