Bryan Johnson has a vision for the future, and it doesn’t include McDonalds 
Meanwhile, regarding McDonald’s “heathy processed foods” marketing, the data is against them…
According to a new study, individuals who consume at least 1/4 serving of bacon, bologna, or other processed red meat daily (approximately 2 servings per week) have a higher risk of developing dementia compared to those who consume less than 1/10 of a serving daily (about 3 servings per month).
- A recent study presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2024 reveals that daily consumption of processed red meat, such as bacon and bologna, increases the risk of dementia by 14%.
- Replacing processed red meat with nuts and legumes can lower this risk by 20% and reduce cognitive aging by over a year.
- While a heart-healthy diet is beneficial, no single food has been proven to prevent or cure Alzheimer’s disease, highlighting the complexity of addressing dementia through diet alone.
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@AnUser you’re not going to like Bryan Johnson’s new tangent…
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AnUser
#65
Bryan is a new thinking very upper class liberal. Once you have everything monetarily or free time, you get to think and form new belief systems. Those new belief systems are not superior to other belief systems, they have flaws, they don’t take everything into consideration.
I think Bryan left the Truman Show believing he would enter a new, true reality. But maybe in reality he swapped his fake reality for another one. I think it is impossible to know what the 25th century values just like a caveman has no clue what our century values.
The best way forward is to help the ordinary and the poor. That is not abolishing McDonald’s. It is longevity drugs and everyone reaching LEV through high compliance strategies.
You want to eat at McDonald’s and UPF at 250 years old. I want the Mexican lady running the local taco stand to be 400 years old in good health because the opportunity was given to them.
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jnorm
#67
Even for 68 yrs old, he doesn’t look very good.
I wonder how much being in good shape can offset eating processed foods. Like for example, I currently am eating a decent amount of burgers and fries, burritos, processed frozen foods from Costco, etc. I eat local joints and don’t really ever eat conventional fast foods, but I realize that my diet isn’t ideal.
That said, I’m also probably at the top of the top for body composition and fitness among 30 year olds, so I don’t feel that bad about my diet. And if I was eating a healthier diet I wouldn’t be able to eat enough to gain muscle. My goal is to get to where I want to be weight wise, and then try to maintain that with a healthier diet (less isoleucine, less salt, etc).
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AnUser
#68
How do you even figure that out?
This is an ad-hominem attack, you aren’t addressing the real issue. The fundamental problem is that (evidence suggests) most fast food and ultra processed food is unhealthy and life-shortening. Your basic argument (correct me if I’m wrong) seems to be that its cheap and so it should be given a “pass”, and to develop things that counter the negative effects of these foods.
I would say the best approach is to simply keep the 'dose" of these foods to a low level, so its just not a factor in your health.
I’m never going to be as stoic as Bryan Johnson when it comes to food/diet, but purely from a health perspective he’s probably correct.
I was teasing you a bit with the posts anti-McDonalds because I think you are a fan of them and you give others here such a hard time when they don’t have good peer reviewed papers to back up their statements
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AnUser
#73
A weird thing happened. Wilson found that she had more energy and less anxiety. She didn’t need as much coffee to get through the day and felt more motivated. She felt better eating an ultra-processed diet than she had before, a change she attributes to taking in more calories by eating full meals, instead of haphazard combinations of whole-food ingredients.
So the problem could be the sodium and saturated fat.
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ng0rge
#74
Good article, but misleading title. Ultra-Processed Foods are as bad as you think but they aren’t all the same, so some (but not most) aren’t that bad. People are so pressed for time and money that it’s likely they’ll choose at least some ultra-processed food but this public education campaign should make it clear that it’s not the healthiest choice. Wilson, the dietitian in the article, did generally pick the healthier ultra-processed foods because she knows better, unlike most Americans. And Big Food/MultiNational Food Corporations should be pressured to clean up the worst ultra-processed foods but that would be contrary to their goal of getting people to eat more and buy more (and it would disappoint their collaborators in Big Pharma who would sell less Ozempic 
).
AnUser
#75
How about education and personal responsibility instead? I’d prefer to not view people as sheep who need to be molded one way or the other.
ng0rge
#76
Where do you live? In a cave in the Himalayas?
I Spent 12 Years Living In a Himalayan Cave (Survival Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLdsdPNHhyw
AnUser
#77
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Bet they didn’t include this
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Summary: Ultra-processed foods are linked to accelerated biological aging, as confirmed in a study analyzing over 22,000 people. Researchers found that these foods, high in additives and preservatives, speed up the body’s internal aging clock, independently of nutritional quality. These findings underscore the potential need for dietary guidelines that also consider food processing levels and encourage whole food consumption to promote long-term health.
Original Research: Open access.
“Ultra-processed food consumption is associated with the acceleration of biological aging in the Moli-sani Study” by Simona Esposito et al. Journal of Clinical Nutrition
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Grapes - the anti-processed food.
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UPFs in fake/plant-based meat: What a Study on Ultraprocessed Fake Meat and Heart Disease Really Found | Scientific American . This took forever to come out [just as microplastics in eyedrops study took forever to come out]
[which JD Vance says “isn’t real food”, and he says “if you want to eat vegetarian, eat Indian food”]
Ultra-processed foods include not only packaged snacks or sugary drinks, but also apparently ‘harmless’ products such mass-produced or packaged bread, fruit yogurt, some breakfast cereals or meat alternatives, to give a few examples.
Oh god, it really took a long long time for me to try to develop any disgust response to the non-glucose-increasing ones (and I still don’t have one). Catalina Crunch and Beyond Meat are probably included, and I don’t need them. I don’t eat them very often (maybe ONCE in a while just to try out the taste) but don’t resist if others serve them to me (and there is no necessity b/c I always can eat beans). I’m surprised tempeh is considered UPF…
^fake meat was such a low percentage of the diet it was impossible to tease out. Which is my experience - I rarely eat them, apart from a small binge I once did in April 2022…
Omg I remember when I got REALLY into odwalla bars my first year of early entrance college… [and also sun valley chips b/c they were often the only possible food i could get in the vending machines…] I thought they were healthy, I didn’t realize they were UPFs. But they had added sugar so I pared down on them later, even though they didn’t have any super-obviously problematic ingredients at the time [and it looks like odwalla bars are now DEAD]. And before Odwalla there was Nature Valley granola bars…
Oh, and as for that article, it also shows a non-monotonic relationship with UPF, it showed there was increased mortality for 0th percent UPF relative to a tiny fraction like 8%… and 8% was like 30th percentile for the population which is still SOME fraction of processed foods that isn’t 0 [it’s probably more akin to my rough level of processed foods in my diet b/c I eat them on occasion for novelty’s sake but usually not on my own once I get in a regular routine)
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They never controlled for confounders in this study. They showed very low RR for vegetable dips, but that’s just b/c vegetable dips are a proxy for vegetable consumption and aren’t so bad as to cancel out the benefits of eating vegetables… Some of the foods were just a proxy for SES
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AnUser
#84
McDonald’s new CEO eats at the chain twice a day (but runs 50 miles a week to burn it off)
Pandemic has sharpened CEO’s focus on pushing the ‘three Ds’ of drive-through, digital ordering and delivery
If Bryan Johnson had a say, they’d add a fourth ‘D’.
“I eat it every day,” he tells me brightly. (Twice a day, in fact, from Monday to Friday.)
His morning routine seems simple. Who will win?
57 year old McDonald’s CEO on the jogging track (with rejuvenation therapies?) vs. 47 year old Bryan?
Lets put it up on Polymarket and vote with our $ ; I know which way I’d vote. 
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