It’s Time to Stop Saying “Junk” Food | Bon Appétit
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It does not make you a worse person to eat "junk" food, and it certainly doesn’t make you a better person to eat whole grains.
This story is part of Junk Food, Redefined , our new collection of snack recommendations, recipes, and perspectives that celebrate an undervalued food group. Read all the stories here . When I was in elementary school, I filled out a well-intentioned worksheet that asked me to sort foods into boxes. In one box were the things I could eat every day, every meal, forever: skim milk, broccoli, orange juice, apples. In another were things that were okay as a treat: ice cream, butter, chocolate milk, cheeseburgers. Indulgent but still featuring nutritious traces of, say, calcium. And then came the a
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