The typical Western diet is defined as the normal diet of the majority of the population that lives in Australia, Canada, the United States and Western Europe. This diet consists of highly processed and refined foods that are associated with poor health outcomes. There has been a gradual trend over recent times for the processing of the food eaten in the Western diet to increase, and as a result many of the foods that are present could be defined as fake foods. That is to say, the nutrition and substance of the food has deviated so far from its original makeup that it is not long able to be defined in terms of a natural food. Supermarkets are replete with such food, and they are often easy to identify by their long shelf lives, large ingredients list, large number of additives and preservatives, as well as very low amounts of essential nutrients. Such foods are effectively empty calories that gradually poison the consumer through the delivery of synthetic chemicals, while at the same time causing severe nutritional deficiencies.
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