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[โ€“] ameancow@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Nobody is talking about food dye.

Ultra-processed food, particularly carbohydrates, is digested differently and causes objectively sharper glucose spikes which do harm to your organs and body over time, even if you're not diabetic. But if you have any chance of developing diabetes, this effect will get much worse.

If eating two pizzas every night helps compensate for your ADHD, that's fine, but you need to talk to your doctor about what long-term consequences that will have on your body or consider different methods of managing your ADHD if your doctor predictably says that's a bad idea. You are not trapped in your way of living, you are comfortable in your way of living. And you most definitely should not speak for everyone.

can we please stop acting as if pizza is some horror food? yeah maybe pizza hut is closer to savoury cake, but most pizzas are perfectly fine, and the stereotypical italian pizza is outright healthy.

Of all the things you can eat, pizza is far from the worst, because it's not absolutely filled with sugar.